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1847–1868

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10 August 1815
Death Date
21 July 1902
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John Darwin Chase

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  • 3rd Corporal in the the Mormon Battalion; in 1864 John led an independent mule train company.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 31

John D. Chase Company (1864)

  • Age at Departure: 48
  • Company Captain

Sources

  • Andrew Jenson, "Chase, John Darwin," "Edwards, Caleb Gibbons," "Everett, Elijah," "Kofoed, Paul Ernst," and "Lowry, John," Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 4 (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Andrew Jenson History Company, 1971), 623.
  • “Captain John D. Chase Company (independent), passenger list, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868. (CR 376 8, Box 1, Folder 9)
  • "Death of a Pioneer," Salt Lake Herald, 28 July 1902, 5.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • "List of Passengers," Deseret News [Weekly], 10 August 1864, 361.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 220.