David Hogg Matheson, (twin)

Biographical Summary:

"...When David Hogg Matheson from Dundee arrived with his family in the Valley in the fall of 1878, he remembered the same kind of reception, although he expressed his vulnerability at age sixty, being in a new setting: “There was a number at the depot in Salt Lake City but Andrew Macfarlane claimed us to go with him. We were royally treated as long as we stayed in the city, but I felt awfully blue one day near the Temple block wandering what in the world I could do in this new country. . . . I didn’t know anything about a corral never had been on a horse’s back.”

His son, David Matheson Jr., also experienced a warm reception. Upon arrival in Salt Lake City he wrote, “There were a number of Dundee Saints there to meet me. There was a returned missionary, Hamilton G. Park in the crowd. He was on a mission twice to Scotland. They all wanted me to stay with them. Also in the crowd was an Uncle John Matheson whom I had never seen. I knew him by the family family resemblance and said I would go home with this man.”

SOURCE: Woods, Fred E.; Conveyance & Contribution: Mormon Scots Gather to an American Zion.; page 6. Retrieved from http://will-n-della.com/gen/histories/mormon_scots.pdf