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1862 Emigration

Outfit Station	Departure	Captain	Souls	Wagons	Arrival in SLC
Florence	June 17	Lewis Brunson	212	48	Aug. 29
Florence	July	James Wareham	250	46	Sept. 26
Florence	July 14	** Christian A. Madsen,	264	45	Sept. 23
Florence	July 14	** Ola N. Liljenquist	250	40	Sept. 23
Florence	July 22	* Homer Duncan	500	50	Sept. 24
Florence	July 28	* John R. Murdock	597	67	@ Oct 1
Florence	July 28	James S. Brown	200	46	Oct. 2
Florence	July 29	* Joseph Horne	570	52	Oct. 1
Florence	July 30	Isaac Canfield	120	18	Oct. 16
Florence	@ Aug 1	* Ansel P. Harmon	650	36	Oct. 5
Florence	Aug. 8	* Henry W. Miller	665	49	Oct. 17
Florence	August	* Horton D. Haight	650	52	Oct. 19
Florence	Aug. 14 Aug. 17	* William H. Dame * John R. Young	@160	60	Oct. 29
Florence	@ Aug 3	# David P. Kimball	@20	22	@ Oct 15
* Church Trains (down-and-back companies that originated in Utah). The companies of Madsen and Liljenquist were a combined company until Ham's Fork where they separated into two divisions and combined again before reaching Salt Lake City. John Van Cott presided over both. # Freight trains (Gilbert/Garrish, David P. Kimball, John R. Young, Benjamin Hampton). The Gilbert train left Nebraska City, May 12, Omaha, May 18, and arrived in SLC, July 28. * John R. Young's Church freight train of 30 wagons and 10 teamsters was the last to leave Florence, & joined with Dame's Church freight company at Ft. Laramie (statistics are combined). Hampton's train included William Godbe, whose merchandise included drugs for his Utah store.
Totals:			5,108	631

Apparently all companies this year followed the MPNHT until the Weber River. From there they followed the Golden Pass Variant up Silver Creek to Kimball's Ranch and down Parley's Canyon, though Ezra Francis Martin in the Miller company, age 30, said they came down Emigration Canyon to Brigham Young's house. Five of the companies did not have a journalist or any who named locations, but since they were sandwiched between other companies (except Brunson's company) that followed the same route, it is assumed they did, also. Martin may have confused Parley's Canyon to Emigration Canyon.

Immigrants arrived by ship at New York City. Horace S. Eldredge, the emigration agent in New York, arranged everything well for them. They traveled by rail to Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Clifton, up into Canada, Detroit, Chicago and Quincy, Illinois, steamship to Hannibal, rail to St. Joseph, then by steamship to Florence. One of the groups had an unfortunate accident at Arlington, Illinois. The baggage car took fire and caused a hardship on the poor particularly. This same group (700 persons) arrived at St. Joseph, about midnight; here they were robbed of guns, pistols, etc., June 24.

Independent companies were made up of wagons and teams purchased in the States. Church trains were made up of teams and wagons from Utah.