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Ansel P. Harmon Company (1862)

 

  "Scotch Independent Company"

Departure:

1 August 1862

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

5 October 1862

Company Information:
About 500 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Florence, Nebraska (now Omaha).

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Ansel P. Harmon Company (1862)

Adamson, Jane (16)

Adamson, Jane Gillespie (46)

Aird, Agnes (23)

Aird, Elizabeth (18)

Ajax, Emma Jemina Hughes (22)

Ajax, William (30)

Allen, Jane (18)

Anderson ( or Andersen ), Christian [or Christen] (37)

Anderson ( or Andersen ), Karen (26)

Anderson ( or Andersen ), Mary Ann [or Maren K.] (3)

Anderson ( or Andersen ), Soren (9)

Anderson ( or Andersen ), Thomas C. (40)

Baker, Emma Erilla (2)

Baker, Henry Augustus (25)

Baker, Mary Sarah Harman (21)

Balden ( or Bowlden ), Charles R. (19)

Ball, Catharine (Unknown)

Beck, Benjamin Franklin (22)

Beck, Christian Matthias (7)

Beck, Elizabeth Carlisle (43)

Beck, George (24)

Beck, Inger Kirstine [or Inga] Jacobsen (35)

Beck, Jacob Stephansen (14)

Beck, Juventa Tempest (7)

Beck, Margaret Elizabeth (8)

Beck, Mary Ann (14)

Beck, Peter Jacobsen (11)

Beck, Robert (10)

Beck, Stephan Jensen (43)

Beck, Stephen (5)

Beck, Theodore (2)

Berrell ( or Birrell ), William (51)

Bertleson, Cristina (Unknown)

Bertleson, Jemima (Unknown)

Bickly, William (Unknown)

Boroman, Eliza (Unknown)

Boroman, John (Unknown)

Boroman, Robert (Unknown)

Boroman, William (Unknown)

Bowbear, John (37)

Bowbear, Martha (34)

Bowdigg ( or Bowdidge ), Alice (18)

Bradley, Aaron (Unknown)

Brown, Ethelwynne (Eshelwin or Ethelwina) Clarissa (11)

Brown, George Thomas (17)

Brown, Jessie Henrietta (13)

Brown, Teresa Rosalth (Sadie) (7)

Brown, Wilburn (William) Richard (27)

Bullock, Elizabeth Platt (infant)

Bullock, Ellen Mariah (1)

Bullock, Henry (27)

Bullock, Sarah Griffin (21)

Bunn, George (19)

Bunn, Susan Simmons (18)

Burtenshaw, Stephen Henry (7)

Burtenshaw ( or Bartonshow ), James (3)

Burtenshaw ( or Bartonshow ), John (35)

Burtenshaw ( or Bartonshow ), Mary Ann (Polly) (5)

Burtenshaw ( or Bartonshow ), Sarah Loveland (34)

Carter, Ann (54)

Carter, David (Unknown)

Carter, Jane (26)

Carter, Jane (Unknown)

Carter, Robert (59)

Carter, William (Unknown)

Chandler, Roseline (21)

Christensen, Bergeta (Unknown)

Christiansen, Andrias (Unknown)

Christiansen, Anna (Unknown)

Christiansen, Anne C. (Unknown)

Christiansen, Carn M. (Unknown)

Christiansen, Caroline (Unknown)

Christiansen, Johanna (Unknown)

Christiansen, Mas (Unknown)

Clark, Francis (Unknown)

Clark, Wortley (Unknown)

Clarke, George (Unknown)

Coles, Caroline Annie (4)

Coles, Hannah Terrell (18)

Coles, Reuben (23)

Coles, Thomas (1)

Crabb, Anne (1)

Crabb, Eliza (22)

Crabb, William (24)

Dale, Mary (64)

Dansie, Alfred John (10)

Dansie, William Heber (1)

Dansie , Charles Nephi (8)

Dansie , Charlotte Rudland (33)

Dansie , Joseph (infant)

Dansie , Robert (12)

Dansie , Sarah Ann Elizabeth (4)

Dansie, Sr., Robert (37)

Davey, Alice Bryant (3)

Davey, George (32)

Davey, Patience Bryant (33)

Davey, Sophia Bryant (infant)

Davies, John (54)

Davies, Phebe (20)

Davies, Thomas (infant)

Davies, Thomas (Unknown)

Deakin ( or Dakin ), Mary Jones (59)

Deakin ( or Dakin ), Robert (25)

Deakin (or Dakin), William (51)

Drabble, Charles (26)

Drabble, John George (1)

Drabble, Selina Elizabeth [or Lelina] (infant)

Drabble , Elizabeth (Eliza) Turner (23)

Eccleston , Mary (50)

Edwards, Charles (48)

Edwards, Emma (Unknown)

Edwards, Hyrum (Unknown)

Edwards, James (Unknown)

Edwards, John (Unknown)

Edwards, Joseph (Unknown)

Edwards, Richard (13)

Edwards, Susan (35)

Ence, Gottlieb (21)

Evans, Ann (Unknown)

Evans, Clara Hannah (2)

Evans, Elizabeth Hardcastle (22)

Evans, Emma (Unknown)

Evans, James (Unknown)

Evans, Jane (Unknown)

Evans, Jane (Unknown)

Evans, John (infant)

Evans, John Henerey (32)

Evans, Mary Alice (3)

Evans, Minnie (Unknown)

Everson, Clemer (Unknown)

Everson, Sarah (Unknown)

Flakier, Anna C. (Unknown)

Flakier, Anna M. (Unknown)

Flakier, Christina (Unknown)

Flakier, Johana (Unknown)

Flamm, Helena (Infant)

Flamm, Helene Bock (27)

Flamm, Jacob Heinrich (Jacob Henry) (24)

Flamm, Peter (1)

Foiken ( or Firkins), George (17)

Freckleton, Jessie Gardner (22)

Freckleton, John Orr (27)

Frost, Anders Sorensen (64)

Frost, Else Marie Christensen (55)

Goodman, Harriet (36)

Goodman, Thomas (29)

Goody ( or Goodey ), Louisa V. (21)

Gough, James (22)

Graham, Elizabeth (18)

Graham, George (14)

Graham, John (13)

Graham, Mary Woodcock (42)

Graham, Rebecca (6)

Graham, Richard (45)

Graham, Richard (8)

Green, Emma (29)

Green, Franklin (2)

Green, Richard (38)

Gritten, Eliza (10)

Gull, George (18)

Hackinon, Mary (Unknown)

Hallett, Ellen (20)

Ham, Hannah F. (Unknown)

Ham, Jane (Unknown)

Hammond, David (infant)

Hammond, James Henry (27)

Hammond, Margaret Ann (3)

Hammond, Mary Ann Howell (24)

Hammond, Sarah (2)

Harmon, Ansel Perce (30)

Harper, Elen (25)

Harrison, Angelina (12)

Harrison, Angelina Parry (45)

Harrison, Edwin Daniel (2)

Harrison, Heber Charles Chase (8)

Harrison, James Hobday (45)

Harrison, Joseph Hidson (14)

Harrison, Mary Elizabeth (6)

Harrison, William Hobday (10)

Henderson, Anna (Unknown)

Henderson, James (Unknown)

Henderson, Jane (Unknown)

Henderson, Margaret (Unknown)

Henderson, Robert (Unknown)

Henderson, William (Unknown)

Higgs, Abraham (?)

Higgs, Agnes (11)

Higgs, David (13)

Higgs, David (31)

Higgs, Elizabeth Dodwell (28)

Higgs, Moses (7)

Higgs, Rose Rebecca [or Roxy] (4)

Holst, Engi (Unknown)

Holst, Hannah (Unknown)

Holst, Nels (Unknown)

Holst, Tega (Unknown)

Holt, Jane Mabey (21)

Holt, William (25)

Holton, Lorenzo (7)

Holton, Mary Ann (48)

Holton, Richard (50)

How, Charlotte (Unknown)

How, Emily (Unknown)

How, Hyrum (Unknown)

How, James (Unknown)

How, Peter (Unknown)

How, Sarah (Unknown)

Humphrey, Sarah Ann (14)

Ilsden, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Ilsden, Louisa (Unknown)

Izatt, Alexander (19)

Izatt, William (50)

Izatt, William (10)

Jacobs, Zebulon (20)

Jarvis, Caleb (Unknown)

Jarvis, James (Unknown)

Jarvis, Jane (Unknown)

Jarvis, Susannah (Unknown)

Jenkins, Margaret (Unknown)

Johannsen ( or Johansen ), Christian [or Christen] (3)

Johannsen ( or Johansen ), Christina [or Christiane] (37)

Johannsen ( or Johansen ), Johan Chr. (10)

Johannsen ( or Johansen ), Louis [or Lauritz] (8)

Johannsen ( or Johansen ), Maria [or Marie] (11)

Johannsen ( or Johansen ), Nels [or Niels] (41)

Johannsen ( or Johansen ), Simon Peter (infant)

Johnson ( or Johansen ), Mette M. (20)

Jones, Anne [or Annie] (7)

Jones, Catharine (10)

Jones, Daniel (18)

Jones, Edwin [or Edward] (4)

Jones, Ellen (Unknown)

Jones, Henry (33)

Jones, Jane (16)

Jones, Louisa (32)

Jones, Selina (Helena) (Unknown)

Jorensen ( or Jorgensen ), Lars Chr. (44)

Jorensen ( or Jorgensen ), Maren (38)

Jorgensen, Jorgen Chr. (3)

Kenspier, Charles (Unknown)

Kenspier, Hannah (Unknown)

Kinghorn, Alexander Patrick (23)

Kinghorn, David (infant)

Kinghorn, George (1)

Kinghorn, Jane Campbell (19)

Kjar, Lectus [or Sixtus] (19)

Larsen, Andreas (Unknown)

Larsen, Andus [or Anders] (27)

Larsen, Jacobine Marie (infant)

Larsen, Jensinah (Jensine) (6)

Larsen, Lauritz (4)

Larsen, Maren (30)

Larsen, Thomas (Unknown)

Leclerg ( or Le Clarcq ), Eliza (4)

Leclerg ( or Le Clarcq ), Harriet [or Henrietta] (2)

Leclerg ( or Le Clarcq ), Jane (37)

Leclerg (or Le Clarcq), Jane (10)

Lee, Sarah (22)

Lee, Thomas (23)

Lewis, Lane (Unknown)

Limm (Limb), Eliza (14)

Lugg, Mary (36)

Luker, Caleb (28)

Luker, Catherine Hand (22)

Luker, Elisha John (1)

Luker, Mary Matilda (2)

Mabey, Esther [or Hester] Chalker (49)

Mabey, John C. (Unknown)

Mabey, John James (4)

Mabey, Joseph Thomas (17)

Mabey, Maria (23)

Mabey, Thomas (49)

Madsen, Hans C. (54)

Mander, Maria Leishman (29)

Mander , John Thomas (7)

Mander , Robert Alfred (4)

Mander , Sarah Ann (infant)

Marriott, Esther (Unknown)

Marriott, Henry (Unknown)

Marvin, Albert (Unknown)

Marvin, Emma (Unknown)

Marvin, Esther (Unknown)

Marvin, Ezra (Unknown)

Marvin, Sophia (Unknown)

McAllister, John Daniel Thompson (35)

McFee, John (Unknown)

McMellen, Angus (32)

McNought, Catharine (Unknown)

McNought, Robert (Unknown)

Merrill, Sarah (Unknown)

Merrill, Sarah P. (Unknown)

Merrill, Thomas (Unknown)

Mitchell, Ann (29)

Mitchell, Ann M. (5)

Mitchell, Joseph (56)

Mitchell, Martha (1)

Mitchell, Mary A. (4)

Mitchell, Sarah (Unknown)

Mitchell, Thomas (37)

Moss, Fannie Elizabeth Goodman (22)

Moss, William Thomas (infant)

Myers, Caroline (25)

Nash, James (Unknown)

Nash, Mary (Unknown)

Nelson, Karen (57)

Nielsen, Christina (Unknown)

Nielsen, Jena (Unknown)

Nielsen, Jens (Unknown)

Nielsen, Mary (Unknown)

Nielsen, Mary (Unknown)

Nielsen, Meta (Unknown)

Nielson, Lavina (Unknown)

Nielson, Maria (Unknown)

Nielson, Nels (Unknown)

Noice, Mary (Unknown)

Norton, Amanda (Unknown)

Parker, Henry (Unknown)

Peterson, Ane Marie (5)

Peterson, Anna M. (Unknown)

Peterson, Christen (infant)

Peterson, Christian P. (Unknown)

Peterson, Jens (44)

Peterson, Maren Sorensen Frost (29)

Peterson, Mette Marie (6)

Peterson, Niels (Unknown)

Pincock, Ellen (Unknown)

Pitt, John (21)

Pollock, Ellen (Unknown)

Pollock, Henry (Unknown)

Pollock, Sarah (Unknown)

Potts, Charlotte Isabell (1)

Potts, George (19)

Potts, Julia Jane Jemmett (21)

Potts, Thomas Henry (infant)

Potts, Thomas Pullen (22)

Priest, Edward (8)

Priest, John Allmark (12)

Priest, Martha Allmark (33)

Priest, Martha Ann (1)

Priest, Mary Jane (10)

Priest, William (34)

Priest, William James (5)

Quin, Anna (Unknown)

Quin, George (Unknown)

Quinlan ( or Quinton ), Harriet (23)

Rawlings ( or Rollings ), Ann Skinner (33)

Rawlings ( or Rollings ), Annie Maria (2)

Rawlings ( or Rollings ), Eber Brightwell [or Heber] (36)

Rawlings ( or Rollings ), George Peleg (6)

Rawlings ( or Rollings ), Henry Eber (10)

Rawlings ( or Rollings ), Zeda Emma (8)

Rawlings (Rollings), Peter (Unknown)

Reaves, Ann (21)

Rice, Esther Kennet Culmer (15)

Rice, Frederick (20)

Rogers, Victoria (24)

Russell, Adam (14)

Russell, Catharine (24)

Russell, David Blackwood (5)

Russell, Elizabeth (26)

Russell, Ellen (48)

Russell, Ellen [or Helen] (13)

Russell, Francis Love (17)

Russell, James Blackwood (19)

Russell, Janet Jeanette (11)

Russell, John (52)

Russell, Joseph Smith (8)

Seymour, Jane (53)

Simmons, Susan (Unknown)

Sims, Eliza (Unknown)

Slocum, Charles (Unknown)

Slocum, Emily (Unknown)

Slocum, Frank (Unknown)

Slocum, Jacob (Unknown)

Slocum, John (Unknown)

Slocum, Margaretta (Unknown)

Slocum, Roxard (Unknown)

Slocum, Silva (Unknown)

Smith, Alice Melissa (17)

Smith, Annie Riley (infant)

Smith, Charles Albert (15)

Smith, Cornelia Frances (19)

Smith, Ella Ethelena (5)

Smith, George Thomas (6)

Smith, Hannah (4)

Smith, Henry (44)

Smith, John (81)

Smith, Lucy D. Platte (infant)

Smith, Mary Ann (9)

Smith, Mary Bell (76)

Smith, Mary Elizabeth DeForest (46)

Smith, Mary Hibbert (31)

Smith, Matilda Ann (4)

Smith, Matilda Watts (30)

Smith, Noah (59)

Smith, William (38)

Smith, William Henry (9)

Sorensen, Inger Maria (Unknown)

Sorensen, Johannes (Unknown)

Sorensen, Soren (Unknown)

Sorensen, Soren Christian (Unknown)

Spence, Emma (17)

Spiring, Mercy (30)

Spiring, William S. (31)

Statham, George Henry (6)

Statham, John Samuel (8)

Statham, Mary Elizabeth (2)

Statham, Mary Williams (36)

Statham, Samuel (37)

Stevens, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Stevens, Mary (Unknown)

Stevens, Selina (21)

Stewart, Samuel Thompson (20)

Stuart, Margaret (34)

Sutherland, Eliza (31)

Sutherland, Mary (28)

Thomas, Catherine (Unknown)

Timmins, Frances (53)

Timmins, Richard (49)

Timmins ( or Moore ), Hugh (23)

Todd, Ann (11)

Todd, David (16)

Todd, Elizabeth (9)

Todd, Martha (44)

Todd, Mary (13)

Todd, Phillip (6)

Treharne, Hannah (Unknown)

Tucker, Annie Louise (infant)

Tucker, Eliza Ann Mercer (32)

Tucker, Henry Richard (2)

Tucker, Joseph (Unknown)

Tucker, Stephen (31)

Van Natta, Eveline Vosburg (44)

Van Natta, James Henry (4)

Van Natta, James Henry (42)

Van Natta, John (1)

Vanhorn, John (Unknown)

Veater, Elizabeth (11)

Veater, James (16)

Veater, Mercy (14)

Vickery, Benjamin (Unknown)

Wakeman, William (Unknown)

Wallace, Henry (22)

Wallace, Maria (30)

Wheoble ( or Weable ), Robert (20)

Whitlock, James (24)

Wilborn, David (Unknown)

Williams, David (Unknown)

Williams, Dinah Frances Baber (38)

Williams, Elizabeth Ann (5)

Williams, Emma Jane (3)

Williams, George (35)

Williams, Hannah (8)

Williams, Harriet Davies (28)

Williams, Maria (Unknown)

Williams, Nephi (7)

Williams, Thomas (40)

Winter, Caroline (40)

Winter, Henry (17)

Yates, Sarah Nobes (26)

Sources

"Arrival of Church Trains," Deseret News [Weekly], 8 Oct. 1862, 113.   
   

"Arrivals of Trains During the Week," Deseret News [Weekly], 1 Oct. 1862, 105.   
   

"How Many Are Coming?," Deseret News [Weekly], 13 Aug. 1862, 52.   
   

"Names of Immigrants," Deseret News, 24 Sep. 1862, 98.   
   

"The Companies for the Missouri River," Deseret News [Weekly], 4 June 1862, 388.   
   

"The Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 23 July 1862, 28.   
   

Deseret News [Weekly], 13 Aug. 1862, 54.   
   

Ajax, William, Diary, 1862 Feb.-1863 Dec., 118-78.   
   

Ence, Gottlieb, A short sketch of my life [ca. 1911], 14-15.   
   

Ence, Gottlieb, Autobiography, 14-15.
   

Freckleton, John Orr, Reminiscences and journal, 1900-1902, 8-10.   
   

Hallett, Ellen, [Letter], Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, 24 Jan. 1863, 59-60.   
   

Jacobs, Zebulon, Reminiscences and diaries, 1861-1877, fd. 1.   
   

McAllister, John Daniel Thompson, Journals, 1851-1906, reel 1, vol. 4, 38-72.   
   

Priest, William, "A record of my life, 1828," 42-62.   
   

Smith, William, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 2:185-86.   
   

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