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1847–1868

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Birth Date
22 January 1839
Death Date
7 August 1914
Gender
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Peter Magnus Andersson

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  • In some sources his surname is spelled "Anderson."

    In 1865 he accompanied Helena Kajsa Lundberg and family. According to the Scandinavian mission records, Peter M. Andersson paid for 9 people's passage, including himself, to Wyoming in 1865: 

    1. Petter Magnus Andersson
    2. Helena Kajsa Lundberg
    3. Anna Lundberg
    4. Abel [Lundberg]
    5. Enoch [Lundberg]
    6. Oliva Marie Lofdahl
    7. Johanna Nordgreen
    8. Juliana Bergstrom
    9. Charlott Mari Bengtson

Joseph Horne Company (1862)

  • Age at Departure: 23

Miner G. Atwood Company (1865)

  • Age at Departure: 26
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Helena Kajsa Lundberg (Age: 67)
  • Anna Kajsa Lundberg (Age: 32)

Sources

  • 1900 Utah Census.
  • Anthon H. Lund, Scandinavian Jubilee Album (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1900).
  • Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: From the Edge of the Great Basin Frontier (Tooele, UT: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc., 2012).
  • European Mission emigration records, Scandinavian Mission, 1852-1920.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Grantsville Ward, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.
  • "Names of Immigrants," Deseret News, 24 September 1862, 98.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 798.
  • Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.