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Daniel D. McArthur Company (1868)

 

Departure:

14 August 1868

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

2 September 1868

Company Information:

411 individuals and 51 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Benton, Wyoming.

 

Narrative:

Daniel D. McArthur, from St. George, led a group of out-and-back teamsters to Benton, Wyoming. They left Salt Lake in mid-June, traveling east by way of Parley's Canyon, where they encountered a blinding spring blizzard. It also took them a full day to swim their herd of oxen across the Green River, which was swollen from the spring runoff. They reached the end-of-track terminus of Benton in July and waited about six weeks for the emigrants, most of whom had crossed the Atlantic on the steamship Colorado. It took the emigrants about a week to travel from New York to the outfitting place on the train. The emigrants arrived in Benton, where they met their teamsters on August 7 and left a week later. The company included 411 passengers and 61 wagons. Twenty-five of the wagons were loaded with goods destined for stores in Salt Lake, including the new Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution. They traveled in a northwesterly direction from Benton through Whiskey Gap and northward from there until they reached the Sweetwater River and joined the old emigrant road. They arrived in Salt Lake on September 2. Seven people, mostly young children, died en route.

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Anderton, Alice (46)

Anderton, Henry (7)

Anderton, Isaac (14)

Anderton, Isaac (50)

Anderton, Isiah (10)

Arnold, Adaline Jerome (62)

Arnold, Eliza (2)

Arnold, Emma (4)

Arnold, Richard James (26)

Arnold, Thomas (63)

Bailey, Alvin (12)

Bailey, John (51)

Bailey, Nephi (22)

Bailey, Thomas (53)

Ball, Joseph Smith (Joseph L.) (17)

Baxter, Emily (45)

Baxter, William (59)

Beagley, John (24)

Beddoes, Maria [or Riah] (24)

Beddoes, Matilda (1)

Beddoes, Selena (3)

Beddoes (Beddes), William (30)

Benson, Ann Baybutt (45)

Benson, Elizabeth Ann (8)

Benson, Ellen (10)

Benson, Ellen Southworth (45)

Benson, James (47)

Benson, James (10)

Benson, John (6)

Benson, John (19)

Benson, Margaret (17)

Benson, Nathan (41)

Benson, Nathan, Jr. (infant)

Benson, Richard (Unknown)

Benson, Thomas (15)

Benson, William (11)

Benson ( or Tattersol ), Alice Marsden (15)

Benson ( or Tattersol ), Margaret (13)

Benson ( or Tattersol ), Mary Alice (37)

Bigler, J. G. (Unknown)

Bishop, George (35)

Bishop, George (20)

Blizzard, Margaret M. (22)

Boak, Elizabeth Irving (57)

Boak, Margaret Ann (18)

Boak, Nicholas (54)

Boden, Anne Mariah (6)

Boden, Annora Coleman (Ann) (40)

Boden, Brigham (16)

Boden, Eleanor Jane (3)

Boden, Elizabeth (2)

Boden, Heber Coleman (12)

Boden, James (8)

Boden, James (45)

Boden, John (infant)

Boden, Willard (10)

Boyer, Isaac (61)

Boyer, Joseph (11)

Boyer, William (28)

Brabey, Robert (19)

Brewer, Jacob (Unknown)

Brown, Charles (Unknown)

Brown, Fanny (73)

Brown, Fanny (27)

Brown, Harry (2)

Bullock, Edwin (20)

Burr, George (Unknown)

Butler, David (Unknown)

Butler, James (Unknown)

Butler, James (Unknown)

Cato, William (14)

Cato, William (47)

Chalice, Alex (14)

Chalice, Ann (53)

Chalice, John (49)

Chalmers, Ann (49)

Coats, Annie Jane (6)

Coats, Elizabeth Smith (30)

Coats, John Paul (28)

Coats, John William (9)

Coats, Paul Levar (infant)

Cockett (or Harris), Frederick (17)

Cooper, Elizabeth Daivs (48)

Cooper, Henry (54)

Cooper, John Spencer (18)

Cooper, Susannah (6)

Cowper , James (55)

Cowper , John (29)

Crabtree, Louise (Loriza) (28)

Dalley, Moroni (Unknown)

Davey, Emily Edith (6)

Davey, Hannah Carter (45)

Davey, Thomas (60)

Davies, Rachel (22)

Davies, Robert (Unknown)

Davies, Sarah Esther Mudd (38)

Davis, Edward Joseph (11)

Davis, Lydia Esther (16)

Davis, Sarah Rebecca (20)

Davis, Susan Kaziah (18)

Dent, Eliza Jane (19)

Dent, Jemima Keeble (59)

Derricott, Elizabeth (14)

Derricott, Joseph (17)

Derricott, Mary (58)

Derricott, Thomas (27)

Derricott (Dadcote), Charles (64)

Duckworth, Sarah Jane (22)

Dudgeem ( or Dudgrow ), Elizabeth (22)

Dudgrow, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Duncombe, Emilie (5)

Duncombe, Henry (31)

Duncombe, Joseph (2)

Duncombe, Nancy Turner (25)

Duncombe, Robert Nehemiah (4)

Edghill, George (Unknown)

Elkins, Paul (19)

Ellis, Arthur (18)

Ellis, Harriet (20)

Evans, John (Unknown)

Faulkner, William (Unknown)

Foulger, Anna Maria (15)

Foulger, Arthur Lewis (9)

Foulger, Charles Joseph (7)

Foulger, Elizabeth Harriet (11)

Foulger, John (48)

Foulger, Susannah Woolnough (47)

Fowler, George (Unknown)

Fowler, Richard (21)

Franks, Keziah (Casiah) (69)

Gale, George (50)

Gittens ( or Giddins ), Timothy (56)

Gittins ( or Giddins ), Hannah (18)

Gittins ( or Giddins ), James (48)

Gittins ( or Giddins ), Mary (56)

Gittins ( or Giddins ), Mary Marie [or Mary A.] (15)

Gittins ( or Giddins ), Sarah Sophia (18)

Goulder, William (Unknown)

Greenfield ( or Greenwood ), Joseph (18)

Grimes, Annie (2)

Grimes, Susan (26)

Grimes, Walter (4)

Grimes, Walter (30)

Haddock, Edward (45)

Haddock, Sarah (52)

Harper, Caroline Hunt (38)

Harper, Frances (14)

Harper, Johanna L. (12)

Harper, Joseph L. (48)

Harper, Rosa E. (7)

Harris, Ann (infant)

Harris, Mary (22)

Harris, Sarah (32)

Harris, Thomas (52)

Hay, Mary J. (27)

Hay, Robert (42)

Hill, George (58)

Hill, Louisa (58)

Hill, Mary (58)

Hobson, Andrew (37)

Hobson, Edith Wright (35)

Hobson, Elizabeth Sarah (13)

Hobson, George Wright (8)

Hobson, John Henry (10)

Hobson, Thomas (2)

Hobson, Willard (11)

Holbrook, O. C. (Unknown)

Horsley, David (18)

Howard, Alice (infant)

Howard, Annie (28)

Howard, John (48)

Howard, Lucy (10)

Howarth, Alice (3)

Howarth, Dorothy (19)

Howarth, Ellen (7)

Howarth, Ellen Gregory (43)

Howarth, Moroni (12)

Hunt, Emmeline (3)

Hunt, Mary (39)

Hunt, Samuel (39)

Hyatt, Harriet (53)

Hyatt, Sarah H. (11)

Irwin (Erwin), Mimi (6)

Isherwood, Elizabeth (11)

Isherwood, James (46)

Isherwood, John (9)

Isherwood, Martha Ashworth (47)

Isherwood, Mary (4)

Isherwood, William Henry (6)

Jackson, Silas Lorenzo (22)

Jennings, Cyrus M. (19)

Johnson, Fritz L. (Unknown)

Jones, Elijah (19)

Jones, Eliza (38)

Jones, Eliza Celestial (infant)

Jones, John (52)

Jones, John Heber (1)

Jones, Thomas (43)

Keen, Elizabeth Mary Thomas (25)

Laker, Edward (30)

Laker, Edward, Jr. (infant)

Laker, Maria (24)

Lance, George Washington (6)

Lance, James Thomas (James L.) (3)

Lance, Lewis (45)

Lance, Mary Ann Elizabeth (1)

Lance, Temperance Tomlinson (31)

Larsen, Merinus (Unknown)

Limb, Fredrick (23)

Lock, Ann (20)

Lock, Joseph (48)

McArthur, Daniel Duncan (48)

McDonald, Ann (56)

McIntyre, Eli Coleman (4)

McIntyre, James Beverly (11)

McIntyre, John Thomas (6)

McIntyre, Nancy Elizabeth (2)

McIntyre, Sarah Bryant Pritchett (39)

McIntyre, William Frederick (56)

McIntyre, William Napdean (9)

Mills, James (25)

Mills, James (5)

Mills, Sarah Richardson (25)

Mole, Anna Eliza Kempf (42)

Mole, Frederick (3)

Mole, George (8)

Mole, Jacob (44)

Mole, John (6)

Mole, Mary (11)

Morris, Bartholomew (54)

Morris, Ellen (28)

Morris, George (25)

Morris, Lilley (2)

Moyes, Richard (Unknown)

Mumford (Mountford), Annie (4)

Mumford (Mountford), Harriet (26)

Nelson, Andrew (13)

Nelson, Andrew (Unknown)

Nunn, Charles (50)

Nunn, Emma (13)

Oberhansly, Ferdinand (23)

Ockey, Heber (Unknown)

Orgill, Charles Cartwright (11)

Orgill, Edith (12)

Orgill, Emma Ann (3)

Orgill, Louisa Creswell (42)

Orgill, Mark (17)

Orgill, Mary (20)

Orgill, Sarah (14)

Orgill, Thomas (47)

Orgill, William (15)

Orgill (Gill), Howard Edward (18)

Orgill (Gill), Nephi (16)

Oswald, Charlotte Audrey Payne (1)

Oswald, Hanna Lark Bensley (34)

Oswald, James (8)

Oswald, John Archibald (12)

Oswald, John Robert (34)

Oswald, Walter (3)

Oswald, William (6)

Owen, Alvin Cyrus (11)

Owen, Clarissa (7)

Owen, Daniel Whitney (2)

Owen, Rhoda Moss (43)

Owen, Sarah (4)

Owen, William David (58)

Pagdon, Maria (26)

Pendleton, Calvin (Unknown)

Phillips, Thomas (35)

Pike, Eliza (11)

Pike, Mary Ann Betts (54)

Pike, Robert (20)

Pike, Sarah (19)

Pike, William (59)

Pike, William, Jr. (22)

Pitcher, George (19)

Pitcher, William (17)

Pitt, Meshack (19)

Pople, Henry (25)

Pouney (Bonnsey, Bomary), Christopher (58)

Prime, Benjamin (20)

Rance, Eliza (8)

Rance, Rebecca Ann (3)

Rance, Samuel (32)

Rance, Sarah (9)

Rance, Sarah Symons (30)

Rasmussen, David (Unknown)

Rasmussen, Niels (Unknown)

Rees, David (47)

Rees, David (47)

Rees, Elizabeth Thomas (52)

Rees, Emma (17)

Rees, Jane (20)

Rees, Mary Ann (9)

Rees, William (13)

Rich, Henry John (Unknown)

Richards, John T. (50)

Richardson, James (20)

Riley, George (42)

Riley, James Henry (14)

Riley, Jane Taylor (39)

Robb, Ann Turner (41)

Robb, Elizabeth (13)

Robb, Isabelle (19)

Robb, James (41)

Robb, Jennie (20)

Robb, Jessie (2)

Robb, John (5)

Roberts, Griffith (34)

Rodd, William (55)

Schofield, George (45)

Scott, Thomas (20)

Senior, Edwin (63)

Senior, Mary Williams (69)

Senior , Edwin (6)

Sheets, Mary A. (65)

Sim, William (19)

Slater, Eliza (21)

Slater, Elizabeth (18)

Slater, Jane Booth (47)

Slater, John (45)

Slater, John Charles (14)

Slater, Joseph (5)

Slater, Mary Jane (13)

Slaugh (Slough), Benjamin Croft (infant)

Slaugh (Slough), Isaac Ivory (10)

Slaugh (Slough), John Henry (16)

Slaugh (Slough), Mary Bowman (7)

Slaugh (Slough), Mary Magdalene Ivory (40)

Slaugh (Slough), Sarah Ellen (14)

Sly, Amos (Unknown)

Smith, Alford (Alfred) (23)

Smith, Amelia Marth (4)

Smith, Ann Marie (8)

Smith, Elizabeth (19)

Smith, Emma Marie (16)

Smith, Hannah Hunting (41)

Smith, Thomas Albert (2)

Smith, William (52)

Smith, William Hunting (10)

Smuin, Sarah Hook (51)

Smuin, Thomas (51)

Somerville, Andrew (Unknown)

Steel, Mahonri (Unknown)

Stockdale, Mary (41)

Stockdale, William (40)

Stone, Joseph (Unknown)

Stubbs, John (39)

Stubbs, Sarah (32)

Summers, Elizabeth (44)

Summers, Georgina (19)

Suter, Francis William (58)

Suter, Franklin William (58)

Swallow, George (16)

Swindlehurst, Amelia (8)

Swindlehurst, Charlotte (11)

Swindlehurst, Edwin (4)

Swindlehurst, Isabel Hannah (15)

Swindlehurst, John (55)

Swindlehurst, Matilda Rothwell (38)

Swindlehurst, Sophia (13)

Swindlehurst, Thomas Wilford (1)

Taylor, George (Unknown)

Taylor, Henry (Unknown)

Thomas, David Griffith (57)

Thomas, Elizabeth (22)

Thomas, Martha (17)

Thomas, Martha Davis (55)

Thompson, Alfred Bringham (10)

Thompson, Elizabeth Walker (41)

Thompson, James H. (Unknown)

Thompson, John Richard (17)

Thompson, Joseph Moroni (15)

Thompson, Orson (3)

Thompson, Walter (5)

Thompson, Willard Hyrum (13)

Thompson, William (40)

Thompson, William T. (19)

Tuckfield, Charles Bird (19)

Tuckfield, Clara Mary (4)

Tuckfield, James Howell (12)

Tuckfield, Joseph William (43)

Tuckfield, Maria Jane (14)

Tuckfield, Mary Ann Powell (41)

Tuckfield, Matilda Ann (6)

Tulley, Samuel (Unknown)

Wakefield, John (41)

Walker, Ann (59)

Walker, Joseph (59)

Watkins, Matilda (24)

West, William (Unknown)

Weston, James (41)

Weston, John Francis (7)

Weston, Lydia Marie (14)

Weston, Maria (32)

Weston, William James (5)

White, Albert (20)

White, Alice (13)

White, Cicilia Emma Miller (22)

White, Edward Orson (11)

White, Elizabeth (9)

White, George (47)

White, George, Jr. (24)

White, Mary Ann (26)

White, Sarah Jane (15)

White, Sarah Spink (52)

Whitehead, Ann (11)

Whitehead, Ann (52)

Whitehead, Hannah (18)

Whitehead, Joseph (54)

Whitehead, Louisa A. (24)

Whitehead, Mary Dyson (22)

Williams, Catherine (31)

Williams, Ellen (19)

Williams, Mary (70)

Williams, Robert (31)

Williams, Walter (21)

Wiltshire (Wilshire), George (Unknown)

Wood, Nephi (17)

Woodhead, Richard (48)

Wooton, Ellen (18)

Wride, Barry (34)

Wride, Jane (20)

Wright, Annie (25)

Wright, Joseph (23)

Wright, Thomas (37)

Yeates, Richard (19)

Sources

"The Trains," Deseret Evening News, 14 Aug. 1868, 3. Full Text

"Died," Deseret Evening News, 23 Sept. 1868, 3. Full Text

"The Emigration," Deseret Evening News, 3 Aug. 1868, 2. Full Text

"The Immigration," Deseret Evening News, 27 Aug. 1868, 3. Full Text

"Train In," Deseret Evening News, 2 Sept. 1868, 3. Full Text

Hobson, John Henry, Autobiography, in Nora Crystal Hall Lund, Biographies Collection, [ca. 1950-1983], reel 2, 2.

Johnson, Don C., Account, in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2 Sept. 1868, 3-22.

McArthur, Daniel Duncan, Record book, 1868

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