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1847–1868

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Image taken in the 1890s

Image taken in the 1890s

Birth Date
3 February 1841
Death Date
19 February 1908
Gender
Male
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Nils Christian Flygare

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  • He married Julia Wetterlind shortly after their arrival to the Salt Lake Valley.

William B. Preston Company (1864)

  • Age at Departure: 23

Sources

  • 1900 United States Federal Census.
  • Anthon H. Lund, Scandinavian Jubilee Album (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1900).
  • “Captain William B. Preston Company (first ox train), manifest, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868.
  • Flygare, Nils C., Autobiography, 51-56, in Papers, 1841-1902, MSS 1496, box 1, fd. 3.
  • "List of Passengers," Deseret News, 17 August 1864, 369.
  • "[Ni]ls Flygare, Well Known Utahn, Dies in Junction City," Salt Lake Telegram, 20 February 1908, 7.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 290.