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1847–1868

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Birth Date
19 October 1837
Death Date
10 February 1913
Gender
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Virgil Dresser

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  • The Dresser family is seen in Maine on 20 July 1850 when the 1850 census was enumerated for their household. That was too late for that year's emigration season. First documentation to place them in Utah is a rebaptism for all the family members on 9 September 1855, so they would have traveled sometime between 1851 and 1855. Further research is needed to narrow the year of their travel and identify the name of the company they traveled with.

    Later census and death records indicate that the entire family left the Valley and returned permanently to the eastern United States only a few years after their arrival.

Unknown Companies (1847-1868)

  • Age at Departure: 9

Traveled with

  • Eunice Deering Dresser (Age: 40)
  • Joseph W. Dresser (Age: 35)
  • Hellen M. Dresser (Age: 5)
  • Adrianna Dresser (Age: Infant)

Sources

  • 1850 Maine Census.
  • Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900.
  • West Jordan Ward, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.