• 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, Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862.
• "Died," Deseret News [Weekly], 21 Sep. 1864, 409.
• Elijah Elmer diary in "To the Tops of the California Mountains: The 1848 Carson Pass Diary of Elijah Elmer," edited by Will Bagley, 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," Land records, circa 1847-1860, Salt Lake (County) Recorder's Office land records, circa 1847-1860.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 222-23.