- Birth Date
- 25 February 1828
- Death Date
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
Henry Mogridge
Henry, a shoemaker, crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool to New Orleans on the ship Carnatic in 1848 with Mary, age 25, and Eliza, age 20. In the 1850 census of Pottawattamie County, Iowa he appears as Henry Morgrage, a shoemaker who was sharing a dwelling with Henry Palmer, another shoemaker. Palmer, a member of the Edward Hunter pioneer company, recorded in his reminisences that he "secured the services assistance of Henry Megridge who carefully drove my team. . . ." In the 1850 federal census of Utah, taken in early 1851, Henry is listed as Henry Mogridge, a shoemaker of Parowan, Iron County.
Edward Hunter Company (1850)
- Age at Departure: 22
Sources
- 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
- 1850 Utah Census, Iron County.
- James Palmer reminiscences, circa 1884-1898, 103-13.
- Mogridge, Henry, Autobiographical sketch, in 25th Quorum, Biographies, 1845-1855, vol. 1, 8, in Seventies Quorum, Records, 1844-1975, reel 79.
- "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright.
- "Report of the 25th Quorum," Deseret News [Weekly], vol. 5, p. 100.
- Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900
- Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.