• Deseret News records confirm that Soren traveled with the Olsen company in 1854. 

Hans Peter Olsen Company (1854)

• Age at Departure: 53
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1856 Utah Census.
• "Life in Utah Fifty Years Ago: Our Gallery of Pioneers," Deseret News, 7 March 1925.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, 343.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America