Niels Henrik Borresen (udv til Utah 1854)

I found a photo of Niels Borreson's house in Spring City here http://tinyurl.com/yak2yl4

It also notes a few things about Niels Borreson: This house, one of the oldest stone houses in Spring City, was constructed of two-foot thick random rubble stone. Borresen, a miller and horticulturalist, was born in Denmark in 1826. He converted to the LDS church in Denmark and came to Utah in the late 1850s. He moved to Spring City in 1860 and had three wives. He was a veteran of the Black Hawk War and was imprisoned twice at the Territorial Prison in Sugarhouse for practicing polygamy. In 1994 a wood frame wing was added and the original house restored by Peter and Inge-Lise Goss.

I found this page as well http://tinyurl.com/ybjlwrc

Under "Church Chronology 1890" it reads: Fri. 19. — In the First District Court, at

Provo, Mahonri M. Bishop, of Deseret,

Niels H. Borreson, of Spring City, and

James M. Stewart,were each sentenced by

Judge Blackburn to six months' imprison-

ment, for breaking the Edmunds law.

Edmunds Law was the law prohibiting polygamy.

At the Danish Museum.org site he is listed as recieving a medal http://tinyurl.com/ybz6eho

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Source of Trail Excerpt:
Borreson, Niels H., Autobiographical sketch, in Biographical sketches 1891- , reel 7, box 8, fd. 1, item 23.
Read Trail Excerpt:Now we were transferred to a steamboat and sailed up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. From there we sailed on another steamboat to Kansas City. Many of our dear brethren contracted cholera and died and were buried there. The rest of us bought oxen and covered wagons and started on the trek across the desert, which took 17 weeks. The Indians took some of our cattle so president Olson commanded us all to carry guns on our shoulders. When we came to Fort Laramie, the Captain with 32 soldiers promised us compensation for our loss. The[y] pursued the Indians but were ambushed and killed by the Indians who then took over the fort.
We finally arrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 5th 1854, and shortly after that my sister Anne Marie Olhus died.