Accomplishments
- Part of the initial westward movement of the LDS Church to Utah.
- A member in one of the 1847 Mormon companies migrating to Utah
- One of 500 members of the Mormon Battalion to assist the U.S. Army in the Mexican-American War 1846-48
- An early Mormon religious missionary to Burma and India in the Far East
- Circumnavigated the world between 1852 – 1856 at the age of 33
- A leader and surviving member of the ill-fated 1856 Willie handcart company moored in winter storms in Wyoming
- Writer of a personal journal from 1852–1903 that is quoted and referenced by many for his involvement in the early western Mormon migration and examples of life on the frontier
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