Letter from George Teasdale, 29 October 1889
President Wilford Woodruff,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brother:
On Saturday
last, the 26th inst, a company of Latter-day Saints
left Liverpool, pr Guion S. S. Wyoming. There were
116 from Scandinavia, 24 from England,
6 from Holland, 3 visitors, 9 missionaries from
Scandinavia, and 3 from England, making in
all 161 Souls. They were under the presidency
of Elders A. L. Skanchy Prest, Ola Olson 1st, and
C. C. A. Christensen 2nd Counsellor and Secretary.
F. Jacobsen, Olaus T Nielsen, Julius Johnson,
Chas. K. Hansen, J. J. Nielsen, & Edmund Sanderson,
(the last named returning through sickness) from Scan-
dinavia and Samuel T. Whitaker, Samuel A Blair,
and Thomas Beard of the British Mission. Bro.
John B. Milner and wife and a Mrs. Brown
were the returning visitors. On Thursday evening,
the 24th inst, whilst we were holding a fellow-
ship meeting in the prayer room at 42 with the
returning missionaries and some of the Saints,
a number of missionaries arrived per Guion
S. S. Arizona. F. C. Mickleson, J. P. Olsen, John
Johnson & Ole Olsen for Scandinavia Orson Merrill
Edward Peay, Ezra C. Rich, Chas R. Lyman, W. B. Gibbons.
