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1847–1868

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1 May 1807
Death Date
9 October 1885
Gender
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Henry William Miller

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Orson Hyde Company (1850)

  • Age at Departure: 43

Henry W. Miller Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 45
  • Company Captain
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Elmira Miller (Age: 41)
  • Elizabeth Ellen Miller (Age: 19)
  • Ruth Ann Miller (Age: 18)
  • Lucy Maria Miller (Age: 15)
  • Alma Miller (Age: 11)
  • Mary Elmira Miller (Age: 8)
  • Freelove Miller (Age: 6)
  • Hyrum Smith Miller (Age: 5)
  • Sarah Jane Miller (Age: 3)
  • Arnold Daniel Miller (Age: Infant)

Jacob Croft Company (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 49

Henry W. Miller Company (1862)

  • Age at Departure: 55
  • Company Captain

Sources

  • "20th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
  • "Arrival of Trains," Deseret News [Weekly], 22 Oct. 1862, 132.
  • Barker, John Henry Humphrey, Journal, 1859 May-1863 Mar.
  • Bee, Richard John Moxey, Autobiography [ca. 1908], 12-17.
  • Bentley, Richard, Autobiographical sketch, 10.
  • Browning, James Allen, Autobiography [ca. 1851-1883].
  • "Captain Miller’s Company," Deseret News, 17 September 1862, 92.
  • Carling, Isaac V., [Diary], in Elda Mortenson, comp., Isaac V. Carling Family History , vol. 1, 48-55.
  • Clark, Edwin Watkin, [Autobiography], in Edna J. Gregerson, comp., The Mellors Through the Years [1963], 660-61.
  • "Companies En Route," Deseret News [Weekly], 8 Oct. 1862, 105.
  • "Correspondence of the Frontier Guardian," Frontier Guardian, 22 January 1851, 2.
  • Early Missionary Database
  • Freelove Miller, Biographical sketches, 1891-2013.
  • "From the Plains," Frontier Guardian, 4 September 1850, 2.
  • George Mason autobiographical sketch, circa 1883, 1-3.
  • Harris, George Henry Abbott, Journals, 1850-1854; 1872-1876, 51-69.
  • Harris, Katherine Perkes, Reminiscences.  Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
  • Henry John, Life of Thomas John and Descendants.
  • Henry Stokes, Reminiscences, 4-18.  Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
  • Joseph Ellis Johnson diary excerpts, in J. E. J. Trail to Sundown (1961) by Rufus David Johnson, 124-26.
  • Joseph Ellis Johnson letter to Beloved Friends in J. E. J. Trail to Sundown (1961) by Rufus David Johnson, 121-24.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 123.
  • Martin, Ezra Francis, Reminiscences and diary, 1862 Jan.-1895 May.
  • Miller, Henry W., Journal, in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 17 Oct. 1862, [3].
  • Miller, Henry William, Diary, 1855 Apr.-1862 Oct., 27-29.
  • Miller, Henry William, Diary 1855 Apr.-1862 Oct., 49-50.
  • Palmer, Louisa Harriett Mills, A Historical Sketch of Louisa Harriett Mills Palmer, [2-3].  Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
  • Palmer, Louisa Harriett Mills, Autobiographical sketch, in Genealogical Charts and Biographical Sketches of Members of the L.D.S. Church, Ogden Stake, 26 vols., 8:136.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company general files, 1850-1887.
  • Roberts, Robert David, Reminiscences and diary, 1862 Jan.-1895 May, in Family record, 1854-1921, fd. 2, 67-69.
  • Staker, Catherine Marie Parsons, Reminiscences [1921], [3].
  • Stokes, Henry, "Captain H. W. Miller's Company," Deseret News [Weekly], 22 Oct. 1862, 136.
  • "The Companies for the Missouri River," Deseret News [Weekly], 4 June 1862, 388.
  • "The Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 23 July 1862, 28.
  • William Henry Miller, Biographical sketches, 1891-2013.
  • Williams, Electa C. Briggs, Autobiography, 1885.