• The company he traveled with was noted in local church financial records.

William B. Preston Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 27

Sources

• “Captain William B. Preston Company (first ox train), manifest, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• "List of Passengers," Deseret News, 17 August 1864, 369.
• Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
• New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 738.
• Tellefsen, Ole Christian, Diaries 1852-1885.