"THE FOURTH COMPANY OF THE SEASON. -- On Saturday, August 29th, the fourth company of the season, numbering 329 Latter-day Saints, including sixteen returning elders, left this port, on the S. S. Wisconsin, for New York en route to Utah. A meeting was held on board, when President Wells appointed Elder John W. Thornley president, with Elders Mortensen and Biesinger as his counselors, who were sustained by the unanimous vote of the company. Elder C. W. Penrose made a brief address, giving suitable advise to the travelers, and the company departed in excellent spirits. We wish them a speedy and pleasant journey."
MS, 47:35 (June 29, 1885), p.554
"Sat. 29. [Aug. 1885] -- The steamship Wisconsin sailed form Liverpool with 329 Saints, including 16 returning elders, under the direction of John W. Thornley. The company arrived in New York Sept. 8th, and at Salt Lake City Sept. 14th."
CC, p.123
". . . On Thursday, Aug. 20, 1885, a company of emigrants, 93 in number, sailed from Copenhagen with the steamship 'Cato' for Hull, bound for America, under the leadership of Elder Niels C. Mortensen. Three other elders from Zion, returning home from missions, also went with this company, namely, Lars Larsen, Mons Monson and Andrew J. Anderson. After a successful voyage across the North Sea, during which the emigrants were treated with due courtesy by the ship's officers and crew, the emigrants arrived in Hull, Aug. 23rd. Thence they continued the journey by rail to Liverpool where they went on board the steamship 'Wisconsin' August 28th, together with a number of
British Saints and several returning missionaries. The company was organized with Elder J. W. Thornley as president and Niels C. Mortensen and Thomas Biesinger as his assistants. The ship sailed Aug. 29th and had a pleasant voyage across the Atlantic. During the voyage a child, two years old, died, belonging to Sister Margrethe Degelbleck from Germany. Sister Johanna Nyberg, after several days' sickness, also died on board Sept. 6th, and her remains were consigned to the watery grave on the 7th. Several meetings were held on board. The 'Wisconsin' arrived in New York harbor in the evening of Sept. 8th and the following day, Sept. 9th, the emigrants landed at Castle Garden, New York. The same day, the journey was continued by rail westward. They arrived in Salt Lake City, Sept. 14th.
On Friday, Aug. 21st, a company of emigrating Saints, 38 in number, sailed from Christiania, Norway, with the steamship 'Angelo' under the leadership of Elder Niels Hansen, a returning missionary. The company reached England in safety, where they joined the larger company of Scandinavian Saints which had left Copenhagen August 20th, and together with them they crossed the Atlantic in the ship 'Wisconsin.' . . ."
HSM, p.291
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