"DEPARTURE. -- The second company of the season left with the S. S. Montana, on the 15th. There was 103 souls from the Swiss and German Mission, who arrived in Liverpool in charge of Elders Theod' Braendli and Reinhard Maeser (President Flamm having given full instructions left the company at Cologne and traveled to Ludwigshaven in Germany); some seventeen souls were with them from the Holland Mission -- who had been transferred by President B. H. Schettler.
The English portion of the company numbered some 97 souls, making a total of 217 exclusive of four returning elders. The steamer left the Mersey, at 6 p.m., all seeming in the best of spirits, and anticipating, from the well know speed of the Montana, a quick trip to New York; our indefatigable brethren, E. Spray and E. J. Starkie, of Morley, Yorkshire, were among the passengers; Elder Braendli had charge and will no doubt be ably sustained by his brethren, Elders Maeser, Claridge and Steele; the Saints may congratulate themselves on having a good ship, a good president, and being a good company."
MS, 40:24 (June 17, 1878), p.379
"Sat. 15. [June 1878] -- The steamship Montana sailed from Liverpool, England with 221 Saints, in charge of Theodore Brandley. The company arrived at New York June 25th, and at Salt Lake City July 3rd."
CC, p.102
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