Project Scope:
This project covers the original 1847 Brigham Young led pioneer company. The original pioneer company consisted of 143 men, 3 women, and 2 children.
They covered the 1031 miles of the trail in 111 days. During the next 2 decades 70,000 others would follow.
How to Participate
If you would like to contribute to this page, please contact the Project Manager or one of the Project Collaborators.
This project is a sub project of the Mormon Pioneers (1847-1868) Master Project
Finding Aids
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah
Biographies
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58061/Biographies-of-the-orig...
Brigham Young Pioneer Company (1847)
http://lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompany/1,15797,4017-1-...
Finished Profiles
List of Mormon 1847 Brigham Young Pioneer Company Members:
The number shown in parentheses next to each name is the age of the pioneer at the time of the journey. Names listed in bold were members of either the LDS church's "Quorum of the 12 Apostles" or other "notable" pioneers.
- Adams, Barnabas Lothrop (34)
- Allen, Rufus (33)
- Angell, Truman Osborn (37)
- Atwood, Millen (30)
- Badger, Rodney (23)
- Baird, Robert Erwin (29)
- Barney, Lewis (38)
- Barnum, Charles David (47)
- Benson, Ezra Taft (36)
- Billings, George Pierce (19)
- Boggs, Francis (39)
- Brown, George Washington (20)
- Brown, John (26)
- Brown, Nathaniel Thomas (53)
- Bullock, Thomas (30)
- Burk, Charles Allen (23)
- Burnham, Jacob D. (26)
- Carrington, Albert (34)
- Carter, William (26)
- Case, James (52)
- Chamberlin, Solomon (58)
- Chesley, Alexander Philip (32)
- Clayton, William (32)
- Cloward, Thomas Poulson (24)
- Coltrin, Zebedee(42)
- Craig, James (25)
- Crosby, Oscar (32)
- Curtis, Lyman (35)
- Cushing, Hosea (21)
- Davenport, James (45)
- Decker, Isaac Perry (6)
- Dewey, Benjamin Franklin (17)
- Dixon, John (28)
- Driggs, Sterling Graves (25)
- Dykes, William (31)
- Earl, Sylvester Henry
- Eastman, Ozro French (18)
- Egan, Howard (31)
- Egbert, Joseph (29)
- Eldredge, John Sutherland (26)
- Ellsworth, Edmund(27)
- Empey, William Adam (38)
- Ensign, Horace Datus (20)
- Everett, Addison
- Fairbanks, Nathaniel (23)
- Farr, Aaron Freeman (28)
- Fitzgerald, Perry (32)
- Flake, Green (19)
- Fowler, John Sherman (27)
- Fox, Samuel Bradford (17)
- Freeman, John Monroe (23)
- Frink, Horace Monroe (14)
- Frost, Burr (31)
- Gibbons, Andrew Smith (22)
- Gleason, John Streator (28)
- Glines, Eric M. (25)
- Goddard, Stephen Hezekiah (36)
- Grant, David (30)
- Grant, George Roberts (26)
- Greene, John Young (20)
- Grover, Thomas (39)
- Hancock, Joseph (47)
- Hanks, Sidney Alvarus (26)
- Hansen, Hans Christian (40)
- Harmon, Appleton Milo (26)
- Harper, Charles Alfred (31)
- Henrie, William (47)
- Higbee, John Somers (43)
- Holman, John Greenleaf (18)
- Howd, Simeon Fuller (23)
- Ivory, Matthew Hayes (46)
- Jackman, Levi (49)
- Jacob, Norton (42)
- Johnson, Artemus (38)
- Johnson, Luke (39)
- Johnson, Philo (32)
- Kelsey, Stephen (16)
- Kendall, Levi Newell (25)
- Kimball, Ellen Sanders (22)
- Kimball, Heber Chase (45)
- King, William Arridus (25)
- Kleinman, Conrad (32)
- Lay, Hark (22)
- Lewis, Tarlton (42)
- Little, Jesse Carter (31)
- Loveland, Chauncey (50)
- Luce, John Grant (29)
- Lyman, Amasa Mason (34)
- Marble, Samuel Harvey (24)
- Markham, Stephen (47)
- Matthews, Joseph Lazarus (38)
- Mills, George (60)
- Murray, Carlos G. (18)
- Newman, Elijah (53)
- Norton, John Wesley (26)
- Owen, Seeley (42)
- Pack, John (38)
- Peirce, Eli Harvey (19)
- Pomeroy, Francis Martin (25)
- Powell, David (25)
- Pratt, Orson (35)
- Rappleye, Ammon Tunis (40)
- Redden, Return Jackson (29)
- Richards, Willard (42)
- Rockwell, Orrin Porter (33)
- Rockwood, Albert Perry (41)
- Rolfe, Benjamin William (24)
- Rooker, Joseph (29)
- Roundy, Shadrach (58)
- Schofield, Joseph Smith (37)
- Scholes, George (35)
- Sherwood, Henry Garlic (62)
- Shumway, Andrew Purley (14)
- Shumway, Charles (38)
- Smith, George Albert (29)
- Smoot, William Cochran Adkinson (19)
- Snow, Erastus (28)
- Stevens, Roswell (38)
- Stewart, Benjamin Franklin (29)
- Stewart, James Wesley (23)
- Stringham, Briant (22)
- Summe, Gilbard (44)
- Taft, Seth (50)
- Taylor, Norman (18)
- Tanner, Thomas (43)
- Thomas, Robert T. (27)
- Thornton, Horace (24)
- Thorpe, Marcus B. (24)
- Tippets, John Harvey (36)
- Vance, William Perkins (24)
- Wardsworth, William Shin (37)
- Walker, Henson (27)
- Wardle, George (27)
- Wheeler, John (45)
- Weiler, Jacob (39)
- Whipple, Edson (42)
- Whitney, Horace Kimball (23)
- Whitney, Orson Kimball (17)
- Williams, Almon Mack (40)
- Woodruff, Wilford (40)
- Woodward, George (29)
- Woolsey, Thomas (41)
- Young, Brigham (46) Prophet, President of the Church, Pioneer Leader
- Young, Clarissa Caroline Decker (18)
- Young, Harriet Page Wheeler (43)
- Young, Lorenzo Dow (39)
- Young, Lorenzo Sobieski (6)
- Young, Phineas Howe (48)