Jens Møller Haugaard Børglum

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel1847–1868 William B. Preston Company (1864) Age at departure: 25

About 400 individuals and 50 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Wyoming, Nebraska (the west bank of the Missouri River about 40 miles south of Omaha)

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Jens & Ida Borglum

Information comes from the Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series

Jens Moller Haugaard Borglum was born 18 Apr 1839 in Wansted, Hjorring Demark

and became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, August 27,

1856 and was prominent in the Daniel Mormon Church before coming to Salt Lake City. 

On the way to this country, he married Ida Michelsen of the Mormon immigrant party he was accompanying.
They married in Liverpool, England 27 Apr 1864, before setting sail April 28.
They arrived in Salt Lake in William B Preston's party on 15 Sep 1864;

and some time before 1867, he entered into plural marriage. 

His second wife, Christina Michelsen was the sister of the first.
In 1866 they moved to Bear Lake;

in 1868 they moved to Ogden,

Utah and finally in 1869 (according to an obituary in a Danish Mormon periodical) they moved to Omaha.
Children of Jens Borglum and Ida Michelsen

1. Jens H M Borglum Jr. b-10 Mar 1865 in Salt Lake City

2. August M Borlum b-27 Apr 1867 near St Charles in Bear Lake

3. Arnold Borglum b-2 June 1869 in Omaha Nebraska

4. Frank L Borglum b-Omaha Nebrasha

Children of Jens Moller Borglum and Christina Michelsen

1. Gutzon Borglum b-25 Mar 1867 near St Charles in Bear Lake;

2. Solon Borglum b-22 Dec 1868 in Ogden Utah; d-6 Mar 1941 in Chicago Ill