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1847–1868

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Birth Date
24 November 1830
Death Date
2 August 1908
Gender
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William Bowker Preston

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  • 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.
  • Bailey, Charles Ramsden, [Autobiography], in Jay L. Long and Betsy W. Long, Charles Ramsden Bailey: His Life and Families [1983], 60-61.
  • Bailey, Charles Ramsden, Autobiography [ca. 1905], 49.
  • "Bishop Preston Called By Death," Salt Lake Herald, 3 August 1908, 1.
  • Bodily, Robert, Journal, in Library of Congress, Collection of Mormon diaries [1935-1938], reel 2, item 4, 14-17.
  • "Captain William B. Preston, memorandum book, 1864," Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains' accounts 1862-1868.
  • “Captain William B. Preston Company (first ox train), manifest, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868.
  • Charles Keilgaard Hansen, Record [ca. 1917], fd. 1, 83-89.
  • Edgar Session sketch based on notes from the Sessions family ledger, circa 1895-1910.
  • “Freight Manifests, 1864, 1868.” In Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Freight manifests, 1861-1868, p. 12-31. (CR 376 8, Box 1, Folder 4)
  • Freight manifests, 1863-1864.
  • Freshwater, William Henry, Reminiscences.  Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
  • Henry Ballard, Private journal of Henry Ballard, 1852-1904, 49-60.
  • "List of Passengers," Deseret News, 17 August 1864, 369.
  • "Local Affairs: Emigrant Train," Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, 16 September 1864, 3.
  • "Local Affairs: The Emigrants," Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, 15 September 1864, 3.
  • "Local Affairs: The Trains," Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, 12 Sep. 1864, 3.
  • Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
  • Morgan, O. J., Account book, 1877-1878, 98-104.
  • Neve, Soren Peter, Journal, in Soren Peter Neve, His Life Story, 8.
  • "Our Immigration," Deseret News, 14 September 1864, 400.
  • "Short History of Bishop Preston," Logan Republican, 5 August 1908, 1.
  • Sprague, Matilda Christina Ohlson, Autobiographical sketch, in Genealogical Charts and Biographical Sketches of Members of the L.D.S. Church, Ogden Stake, 26 vols., 4:46-47.
  • Sprague, Matilda Olson, [Interview], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 27:52.
  • Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.
  • Warnick, Christine Marie Larsen, "History of Christine Marie Larsen Warnick by herself," in Merrill N. Warnick, Warnick Family History, vol. 1 [1967], 252-56.
  • William Henry Freshwater, Life sketch, reel 16, box 22, fd. 10, item 1, 2.