• 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.
• "Death of a Pioneer," Salt Lake Herald, 28 July 1902, 5.
• "List of Passengers," Deseret News, 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.