. . . the time came for us to come to Utah to the headquarters of the Church. We migrated from Morley to Liverpool and set sail from Liverpool on the night of the fifteenth of June 1878, and arrived in Salt Lake City on the night of the third of July 1878, as we came by train from Jersey City I believe it was, we also had a splendid voyage across the ocean; then from Salt Lake City we went to Tooele City for our first experience in Zion. . . [p.6]

BIB: Starkie, Edward John, [Autobiographical Sketch], (Special Collections & Manuscripts, Mss 598), p. 6 (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah)
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