Goudy Hogan was born in Tensprestijeld, Norway, on September 16, 1829. In 1837 he travled to the United States with his parents and four younger sisters, two of whom did not survive the journey. The family intially settled in Lasal County, Illinois, where Hogan was sent to work briefly on a neighbor's horse and cattle farm, where he suffered mistreatment and illness. In 1841 the family resettled in Iowa, in an area not far from Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1843 a Norwegian Mormon named Gudmon Hougus preached to the family, and they were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the same year. In 1846 the family heeded Brigham Young's call for the Mormons to enter the "wilderness," and traveled to Council Bluffs, where they remained for a year and a half. In 1848 they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, settling in Bountiful in 1849. That same year Hogan journeyed to California hoping to make his fortune in the gold rush, but returned home penniless in 1850. He was involved in multiple Mormon missions during his life, including building mail stations between Salt Lake City and the Missouri River in 1857, to Missouri to lead immigrants westward in 1862, working on the Utah Northern Railroad in 1871, and an extended mission to Norway from 1877-1880. He also helped settle Richmond, Cache County, Utah. He had three plural wives : Bergetta, Christiana, and Anna Nelson. Hogan died in Richmond, Utah, on January 30, 1898.
From the description of Autobiography of Goudy Hogan, 1945. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 501190383
