"SEVENTEENTH COMPANY. -- Benjamin Adams, 384 souls. On Monday, December 26, 1853, another company of Scandinavian Saints, consisting of three hundred and seventy-eight souls, sailed from Copenhagen, Denmark, by the steamship Eideren, bound for Utah, under the leadership of Elder Hans Peter Olsen, a missionary from the Valley, who had labored about ten months on the island of Bornholm. Like the preceding company these emigrants traveled by way of Kiel, Gluckstadt and Hull to Liverpool, where they arrived January 9th, 1854. Here they were compelled to wait nearly two weeks, during which time the greater portion of the children were attacked with fever, resulting in the death of twenty-two of the little ones; two adults also died. On the twenty-second of January the emigrants went on board the ship Benjamin Adams, together with a few German Saints. On the twenty-fourth the doctor who examined the condition of the emigrants declared that fifteen of them were unfit to proceed on the voyage, and they were consequently landed in Liverpool, with the understanding that they would be sent on to New Orleans when sufficiently recovered to travel.
The Benjamin Adams sailed from Liverpool on the twenty-eighth, with three hundred and eighty-four Saints on board, and arrived in New Orleans on the twenty-second of March, after a very pleasant and prosperous voyage. Eight deaths occurred during the voyage, namely, two very old people and six children; two children were born on board and nine couples were married.
On the twenty-fifth of March the company continued the journey, from New Orleans, by the steamboat L. M. Kennet, and arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, on the third of April. During the passage up the river considerable sickness prevailed, and fourteen of the emigrants died.
In St. Louis, where an organized branch of the Church existed, the emigrants joined the former company which had crossed the Atlantic in the Jesse Munn, and H. P. Olsen became the leaser of all. Under him the survivors of both companies continued the journey by steamboat to Kansas City, in Jackson County, Missouri, which had been selected as the outfitting place for the Saints who crossed the plains that year. The Scandinavian emigrants made their encampment near Westport. (Millennial Star, Vol. XVI, pp.94, 256, 272, 297; Morgenstjernen, Vol. II, page 53)"
Cont., 13:11 (Sep. 1892), pp.508-09
"Sun. 22. [Jan. 1854] -- The ship Benjamin Adams sailed from Liverpool, England, with 378 Scandinavian and 6 British Saints, under the direction of Hans Peter Olsen. The company arrived at New Orleans, March 22nd, and at Kansas City in the beginning of April."
CC, p.50
" . . . On Monday, Dec. 26, 1853, another company of Scandinavian Saints, consisting of more than 200 souls, sailed from Copenhagen, Denmark, by the steamship 'Eideren,
' bound for Utah, under the leadership of Hans Peter Olsen, who had labored about ten months on the Island of Bornholm. Like the preceding company, these emigrants traveled by way of Kiel, Gluckstadt and Hull to Liverpool, where they arrived January 9,
1854. Here they were compelled to wait nearly two weeks, during which time the greater portion of the children were attacked with fever, resulting in the death of twenty-two of the little ones; two adults also died. On the 22nd of January the emigrants went on board the ship 'Benjamin Adams,' together with a few German Saints. On the 24th, the doctor, who examined the condition of the emigrants, declared that fifteen of them were unfit to proceed on the voyage, and they were consequently landed in Liverpool, with the understanding that they would be sent on to New Orleans when sufficiently recovered to travel. . . . "
HSM, p.88
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