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1847–1868

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Birth Date
4 April 1806
Death Date
15 July 1872
Gender
Male
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Nils Swenson

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  • He traveled from Sweden with his wife and daughters. They crossed the sea on board the ship Monarch of the Sea. His family's surname is listed as "Svensen" on the Canfield company roster. More research is needed to confirm his date of birth.

Isaac A. Canfield Company (1864)

  • Age at Departure: 57
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Lena Maria Swenson (Age: 57)
  • Anna Swenson (Age: 30)
  • Johanna Nilsson Swenson (Age: 15)

Sources

  • Captain Isaac Canfield Company (fourth ox train), manifests, 1864.
  • 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).
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • "List of Passengers," Deseret News, 17 August 1864, 369.
  • New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.