"DEPARTURES. -- The steamship Idaho, Captain Price, left this port, Sept. 7, for New York, with 186 souls of the Saints on board, including the following seven returning elders -- Frank H. Hyde (president of the company), George Romney and Peter Nebeker (his counselors), John Albiston, W. W. Taylor, John S. Lewis, and L. W. Richards, who had been laboring faithfully on missions in this country for periods varying from about one to upwards of three years. Elder Taylor would have been pleased to continue his labors in England until next year, but, as his health was more or less feeble during the whole of his mission, it was considered best that he return home the present season. We rejoice to see the Saints gathering to Zion, but we should regret the departure of faithful elders from their fields of labor in the world, were it not for the thought that after having accomplished their missions here, their presence will be as welcome and they may be as useful at home as abroad.
Among the above company were brother Robert Ruck, daughter, and son-in-law, from Preston Candover, Hants. Brother Ruck, if we are rightly informed, has been in the Church 30 years, and, as we understood, was baptized by Elder W. Woodruff. The company had a pleasant, cool, bracing day for the commencement of their ocean journey, but in all probability a breezy time for their night at sea. We wish them a safe, pleasant, and speedy journey to the valleys of Utah. Elders R. F. Neslen, George H. Peterson, and Thomas Howells, of the London, Nottingham, and Bristol Conferences respectively, accompanied parties of Saints from said Conferences, to assist them comfortably on board."
MS, 32:37 (Sep. 13, 1870), p.584
"Wed. 7. [Sep. 1870] -- The steamship Idaho sailed from Liverpool, England, with 186 Saints, in charge of Frank H. Hyde. The company arrived at New York Sept. 21st, and at Ogden Oct. 1st."
CC, p.84
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