“Thursday, June 27 . . . Releases and Departures - - The following named missionaries have been honorably released and sailed for home June 27th, 1912, per s.s. ‘Corsican’. From Great Britain - -John T Hales, John H Watkins, Ira N Kendall, James H Buck, J E Whittle, Samuel Smedley, Jr., From Switzerland and Germany - -G A Lanbengayer.. From Scandinavia - -Oluf J Anderson, Kathinka Anderson, William H Peterson. With the company were twenty –eight emigrants in charge of Elders John T Hales, Oluf J Anderson, and Samuel Smedley, Jr. (Mill.Star, 74:430).” [BMMH,1912]. (source abbreviations)