• John initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Heber C. Kimball Company in 1848 as indicated in Heber C. Kimball’s journal and John’s autobiography. 

  As a patriarch, he traveled home as captain of the John Smith Company in 1860 as indicated in the Deseret News article on 15 August 1860.  He traveled with his sister in this company as indicated in a Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star article on 20 October 1860.

   Again as a patriarch, he traveled home again as a captain of the John Smith Company in 1864 as indicated in John Smith’s autobiography and an article in the Salt Lake Daily Telegraph on 27 September 1864.

Heber C. Kimball Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 15

John Smith Company (1860)

• Age at Departure: 27
• Company Captain

John Smith Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 31
• Company Captain

Sources

• Anthon H. Lund, Scandinavian Jubilee Album (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1900).
• Autobiography, John Smith. Salt Lake City, 1885 in Utah and the Mormons collection, undated.
• Burton, Richard F., The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California [1971], 180.
• Groneman, Thomas C., [Interview], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 11:178, 180.
• Heber C. Kimball journals, 1848 June-July and 1848 July-September, in Heber C. Kimball papers, 1837-1866.
• John P. R. Johnson diary, 1864 July-September, 11.
• Johnson, John. Reminiscences, 1899-1935, 7 p.
• Joseph F. Smith, "Recollections," printed in serial format, Juvenile Instructor.  27 May 1871; 10 June 1871; 24 June 1871. Link connects to 27 May 1871 edition.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1860, 38, 39.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 16.
• Juvenile Instructor, vol. 6, p. 91, 98-99.
• Larsen, Hans Peter, [Interview], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 18:54-56.
• "Late from the Immigration," Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star , 20 Oct. 1860, 669.
• "List of Immigrants," Deseret News [Weekly], 12 October 1864, 13.
• "Local Affairs," Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, 27 September 1864, 3.
• Maeser, Reinhard, Karl G. Maeser: A Biography [1928], 34-36.
• Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
• "Patriarch John Smith Passes Quietly Away," Logan Republican, 9 November 1911, 1.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company general files, 1850-1887.
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• "Voyage of the Hudson," Deseret Evening News, 23 Mar. 1895, 11.