• Lorenzo initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Brigham Young Pioneer Company in 1847 and was part of the 3rd Company of Ten led by Phineas H. Young. He also traveled with Harriet and Clarissa Young, as well as Isaac Decker and Lorenzo Sobieski Young.

Brigham Young Vanguard Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 39
• Head of Household

Lorenzo Dow Young Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 42
• Company Captain

Sources

• Albert P. Rockwood journals, 1847-1853, Journal, 1847 April-July.
• Amasa M. Lyman collection, 1832-1877, Journal, 1847 April 8-September 10, 1-26 and 1-10.
• Charles A. Harper diary, 1847 April-August.
• Find a Grave
• Heber C. Kimball journal in Heber C. Kimball papers, 1837-1866.
• James Amasa Little, "Biography of Lorenzo Dow Young," Utah Historical Quarterly 14 (1946): 118-21.
• "Lorenzo D. Young's Funeral," Salt Lake Tribune, 25 November 1895, 8.
• Lorenzo Dow Young diaries, 1846-1852 and 1888-1891, in Lorenzo D. Young papers, 1846-1894.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 110.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 6.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 751
• Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878: Major Howard Egan's Diary, edited and compiled by William M. Egan (1917), 21-105.
• "The Utah Pioneers," Deseret Weekly, 25 August 1894, 294.
• Thomas Bullock journals, 1843-1849, Journal, 1847 April-June.
• Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946.
• Utah Historical Quarterly, vol. 14, p. 118-21
• Wilford Woodruff journal, 1847 January-1853 December, 25-77.
• William Clayton diaries, 1846-1853, Folder contents: (2) Volume 2, 1847.
• Young, Franklin Wheeler, Young family genealogy [ca. 1889-1899], fd. 1, 4-6.