• After serving in the Mormon Battalion, James traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company in 1848 as a captain of ten. 

  In 1850, James traveled from California to the Salt Lake Valley with the Amasa M. Lyman Company.

  At the end of a mission to Canada, he traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Isaac Allred Freight Train in 1855 as Captain of the guard.

Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 40

Amasa M. Lyman Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 43

Isaac Allred Company (1855)

• Age at Departure: 47

Sources

• “7th Company of 50 report, 1855 July.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 42)
• "Died," Deseret News [Weekly], 21 Sep. 1864, 409.
• Elmer, Elijah, Diary, in Will Bagley, ed., "To the Tops of the California Mountains: The 1848 Carson Pass Diary of Elijah Elmer," Crossroads Newsletter 4, no. 3 (summer 1993): 5-7.
• "Immigration List," Deseret News, 12 September 1855, 214.
• Isaiah M. Coombs collection, 1835-1938, Diaries, Volume 1, 1855 April-1856 April 27. 
• "Journal and Diary of Albert King Thurber," in Treasures of Pioneer History, 6 vols. [1952-57], 3:283-288.
• [Names of men who wish for land to cultivate who came from California with Jonathan H. Holmes], in Salt Lake Recorder's Office, Land records [ca. 1847-1860].
• Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 , [1996], 222-23.