• Franklin initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as clerk of Reese's Fifty in the Allen Taylor Company in 1849. However, he later participated as one of the rescuers that were sent out in the winter of 1856 to assist the members of the Church stranded in Wyoming.

Allen Taylor Company (1849)

• Age at Departure: 21

Rescue Companies (1856)

• Age at Departure: 29

Sources

• David Moore collection, 1843-1921, Meeting minutes, 1849.
• David Moore writings, circa 1860, 45-54.
• Elizabeth Jane Perkins Belcher in On to the Valley (1957) by Anson G. Perkins.
• Franklin M. Perkins reminiscences, circa 1860.
• James A. Little autobiography, undated, 78-80.