• Captain of company

  In 1868, he was a returning missionary from Europe.

William B. Preston Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 33
• Company Captain

William B. Preston Company (1863)

• Age at Departure: 32
• Company Captain

Simpson M. Molen Company (1868)

• Age at Departure: 37
• Returning Missionary

Sources

• 1900 United States Federal Census
• "About the 'News'," Deseret News, 21 September 1864, 408.
• "Agents and Immigration," Deseret News, 10 August 1864, 361.
• "Arrived," Deseret Evening News , 2 Sep. 1868, 3.
• Bailey, Charles Ramsden, [Autobiography], in Our Pioneer Heritage , 20 vols. [1958-77], 17:287-88.
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• Bodily, Robert, Journal, in Library of Congress, Collection of Mormon diaries [1935-1938], reel 2, item 4, 14-17.
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