Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company

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Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, founded in October 1849, aided poor Europeans in move to the Salt Lake City. Brigham Young was president and Willard Richards was secretary.

From the description of Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company Records, 1857, 1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702128271

Fund established to help Mormons financially to emigrate to Utah.

From the description of Receipts, 1853-1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82190484

In their migration from Missouri to Illinois, there developed a covenant among the Mormons to assist their poor who were unable to provide for their own removal. The covenant was renewed in their exodus from Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley and led, in 1849, to the creation of a volunatry fund to aid, not only Nauvoo Mormons to Utah, but was extended to aid the immigration of thousands from Europe. The money advanced to aid in emigration was to be returned to the fund for repeated use, thus making it a perpetual instrument. Organization for travel across the plains was also perfected, differing from the usual habits of overland migrations in the middle nineteenth century.

The operations of the emigrating fund assumed such proportions, and its activities, in collecting and disbursing funds, chartering ships, establishing buying agencies, and converting its varied accumulations into ready cash, were of such a nature as to demand a businesses-like organization. To accomplish this end, and to give it a legal status, the fund was incorporated into the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company by the Provisional State of Deseret in 1850. This company continued to operate until 1887, when it was dissolved by the Edmunds-Tucker Act.

The Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company spent, in its repeated use of funds, millions of dollars for emigrant transportation, but failure on the part of a large percent of the beneficiaries to pay off their obligations handicapped its operation. The total Mormon emigration from 1840 to 1887 was 85,220 of which no less than 70,000 were aided by the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company.

From the guide to the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company receipt book, 1857-1863, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)

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creatorOf CR 376 13, Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company (1849-1887). Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company outfitting reports 1866 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church History Library
referencedIn CR 100 334, Historian's Office (1842?-1972). Church emigration undated Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church History Library
creatorOf CR 376 4, Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company (1849-1887). Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company emigration agents accounts 1860-1864 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church History Library
creatorOf Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company. Papers, 1853-1880. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf CR 376 2, Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company (1849-1887). Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company financial accounts 1849-1886 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church History Library
creatorOf Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company. Receipts, 1857-1863. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library
referencedIn Lars Peter Christensen account book, 1881-1883 L. Tom Perry Special Collections
creatorOf Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company. Receipts, 1853-1855. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company. Amounts due on notes from 1860 emigrants. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
referencedIn MacKintosh, Daniel, 1821-. Letter, 1854. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf CR 376 1, Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company (1849-1887). Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company general files 1850-1887 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church History Library
creatorOf Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company. Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company Records, 1857, 1860. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
creatorOf CR 376 7, Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company (1849-1887). Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company ship passenger lists 1852-1864; 1874 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church History Library
referencedIn Empey, William Young, 1808-1890. Papers of William Young Empey, 1847-1890 (bulk 1853-1854) Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
creatorOf Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company receipt book, 1857-1863 J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah Manuscripts Division
creatorOf CR 376 14, Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company (1849-1887). Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company receipts and orders 1854-1863 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church History Library
creatorOf CR 376 8, Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company (1849-1887). Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church History Library
referencedIn CR 1234 5, Brigham Young Office. Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church History Library
referencedIn Carrington, Albert, 1813-1889. Letter to F.D. Richards : Salt Lake City : LS., 1880 June 26. UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf CR 376 15, Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company (1849-1887). Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company outfitting stations accounts 1855-1856 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church History Library
creatorOf Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company. Contract, 1856. Utah Division of State History, Utah Historical Society
referencedIn Larson, Gustive Olof, 1897-. Papers, 1840-1896. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library
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associatedWith Brigham Young Office corporateBody
associatedWith British Mission corporateBody
associatedWith Carrington, Albert, 1813-1889. person
associatedWith Christensen, Lars Peter, 1837- person
associatedWith Empey, William Young, 1808-1890. person
associatedWith Ferguson, James 1828-1863 person
associatedWith General Tithing Office (Salt Lake City : 1850-1873) corporateBody
associatedWith General Tithing Storehouse (Salt Lake City : 1873-1887) corporateBody
associatedWith Historian's Office (1842?-1972) corporateBody
associatedWith Hunter, Edward 1793-1883 person
associatedWith James G. Willie Emigrating Company corporateBody
associatedWith Larson, Gustive Olof, 1897- person
associatedWith Little, Feramorz 1820-1887 person
associatedWith MacKintosh, Daniel, 1821- person
associatedWith McAllister, John Daniel Thompson 1827-1910 person
associatedWith McGaw, James 1823-1872 person
associatedWith Musser, Amos Milton 1830-1909 person
associatedWith Sanderson, John, fl. 1853. person
associatedWith Snow, Erastus 1818-1888 person
associatedWith Snow, Erastus Fairbanks, 1818-1888. person
associatedWith Spencer, Daniel 1794-1868 person
associatedWith Trustee-in-Trust (1841- ) corporateBody
associatedWith Young, Brigham, 1801-1877. person
associatedWith Young, Joseph Watson 1829-1873 person
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Emigration and immigration
Gold mines and mining
Handcarts
Mormon Church
Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
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Mormons
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Active 1855

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