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        1847–1868

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        Birth Date
        28 June 1842
        Death Date
        15 June 1915
        Gender
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        John Marshall Miller

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        • He first came to the Valley in 1852 with family. His obituary confirms three additional trips across the plains as a teamster for out-and-back companies and once again with a freight train. Further research is needed to identify the 1862 out-and-back company and the 1867 freight train he traveled with. John came from the American Fork Ward when he served as a teamster for the William Chipman Company. 

          Birth date confirmed by Fifteenth Ward records.

        John Tidwell Company (1852)

        • Age at Departure: 9

        Traveled with

        • Charles Dutton Miller (Age: 35)

        William Henry Chipman Company (1866)

        • Age at Departure: 24
        • Out-and-Back Teamster

        Sources

        • 1850 United States Census
        • 1910 United States Federal Census
        • “5th Company of 50 Report, 1852 September 14.” In Brigham Young Office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1850-1852. (CR 1234 5. Box 1, Folder 10)
        • “Captain Henry Chipman Co., 1866.” In Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Wards' accounts 1861-1868, Account book, 1866, 1868. (CR 376 8; Box 2; Folder 17; File 6-7, 55-58)
        • Chipman, William H., Notebook, 1866.
        • Council Point Emigrating Company journal, 1851 November-1852 September.
        • Fifteenth Ward, Record of Members.
        • "Pioneer of 1852 Dies," Salt Lake Herald, 16 June 1915, 8.
        • "Two Pioneers of American Fork Dead," Deseret Evening News , 16 June 1915, 12.
        • Utah Death Certificates.  
        • "Utah Pioneer Dies at American Fork," Salt Lake Tribune , 16 June 1915, 2.