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    Date Unknown

    Birth Date
    12 September 1826
    Death Date
    24 May 1880
    Gender
    Male

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    John Young Greene

    • John initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Brigham Young Pioneer Company in 1847 and was part of the 3rd Company of Ten led by Phineas H. Young.

      From the Salt Lake Valley, John had traveled to California for mules and cows.  After his trip to California, he traveled back to the Salt Lake Valley, was there four days, and then headed east until he met the Brigham Young Company in 1848. According to Thomas Bullock‘s journal, on 11 July 1848 John Young Greene and Joseph W. Young met the company with news from the Salt Lake Valley.  On 16 July 1848, John Young was sent with Benjamin W. Rolfe and Cyrenus Taylor ahead of the company to carry mail to the Salt Lake Valley. 

      Then, in 1859, he traveled as co-captain of the Hiram T. Spencer/John Y. Greene train according to Nathaniel George Chambers’ biographical sketch.

      In 1860, he traveled with the Hooper and Eldredge Freight Train as a captain of a mule train as indicated in a Deseret News article of 8 August 1860.

    Brigham Young Vanguard Company (1847)

    • Age at Departure: 20

    Brigham Young Company (1848)

    • Age at Departure: 21

    Hiram T. Spencer/John Y. Greene Freight Train (1859)

    • Age at Departure: 32
    • Company Captain

    Hooper and Eldredge Freight Train (1860)

    • Age at Departure: 33

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