Members of the Mormon Battalion - Mormon Battalion, George Stoneman, Philip St. George Cooke, Levi Savage JR., Jefferson Hunt, John R. Murdock (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mormon Battalion, George Stoneman, Philip St. George Cooke, Levi Savage Jr., Jefferson Hunt, John R. Murdock, Edward Bunker, Levi W. Hancock, Robert Clift, Jr., Stephen Clark Foster, William S. S. Willes, Ephraim Hanks, Pauline Weaver, Lot Smith, Dimick B. Huntington, Elam Luddington, Daniel C. Davis, William Prows, Christopher Layton, James Allen. Excerpt: Christopher Layton Christopher Layton (March 8, 1821 August 7, 1898) was a Mormon colonizer and Patriarch who founded the cities of Kaysville, Utah, Layton, Utah, and Thatcher, Arizona . Layton, Utah is named after him. Layton was born at Thorncote, Northill, Bedfordshire, England . He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1842 and a year later emigrated to the United States. In 1846, Layton joined the Mormon Battalion . In 1852, he moved to Kaysville, Utah Territory . In 1866-1867 Layton was a member of the Utah Territorial legislature. From 1883 to 1898, he served as president of the St. Joseph Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Thatcher, Arizona. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Daniel Coon Davis (February 23, 1804 June 1, 1850) was the captain of Company E in the Mormon Battalion . He became an early leader of Davis County, Utah, which is named after him. Davis was born in Petersburg, New York . Davis was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Council Bluffs, Iowa . In 1839, he was appointed master of the ferry that traveled between Nauvoo, Illinois and Montrose, Iowa . Captain Davis led a company in the Mormon Battalion during the Mexican War . His wife Susan and son Daniel Jr. accompanied Company E at the beginning of their trek west. Daniel Jr. was the son of Davis first wife, Sophronia Fuller, who h...