History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

VOCATIONS OF IMMIGRANTS. 415
took ship from Liverpool, of whom 108 were laborers,
the remainder being farmers, joiners, shoemakers,
rope-makers, watch-makers, engine-makers, weav-
ers, tailors, masons, butchers, bakers, painters, potters,
dyers, iron-moulders, glass-cutters, nail-makers, basketmakers,
sawyers, gun-makers, saddlers, miners, smiths,
and shipwrights. 44 Of the total emigration between
1850 and 1854, it was estimated that 28 per cent
were laborers, 14 per cent miners, and about 27
per cent mechanics, among every two hundred being
found one domestic servant, a shepherd, and a
printer, and among every five hundred a schoolmaster,
with here and there a university graduate,
usually of no occupation, a dancing-master, a doctor,
a dentist, and a retired or cashiered army officer. 45
For each emigrant as he arrived was apportioned
an allotment of ground, and thus all became landed
proprietors; though few brought with them capital,
save the ability to labor, and many had not the means
wherewith to pay for their passage.
On October 6, 1849, was organized at Salt Lake
City the Perpetual Emigration Fund Company, for
the purpose of aiding the poor to remove from Europe
and the United States. 46 The company has con-
44 Mayhew, The Mormons, 245; Edinburgh Review, Apr. 1854, 351. In
LinforiKs Routefrom Liverpool, 16-17, is a table showing the occupations of
emigrants sent through the British agency between 1849 and 1S54.
45 Remifs Jour, to S. L. City, ii. 224-5.
46 Utah Perpetual Emigrating Fund, MS. On Sunday Sept. 9, 1849, it
was voted that a perpetual fund be instituted in aid of the poor among the
latter-day saints, and that Willard Snow, John D. Lee, Lorenzo Snow, Franklin
D. Richards, and John S. Fullmer be appointed a committee. At a general
conference of the church, held Oct. 6th and 7th, it was ordered that the
committee should raise funds for this purpose, to be placed in charge of
Edward Hunter, and that the control of the funds be under the direction of the
first presidency. On Sept. 15th Brigham Young was chosen president and
Willard Richards was afterward appointed secretary. Utah Early Records,
MS., 95, 97, 113, 114. The company was incorporated by the provisional
government of the state of Deseret, Sept. 14, 1850, and the act of incorporation
was made legal Oct. 4, 1851, and amended and confirmed by the same
body Jan. 12, 1856. The company began rendering material aid on the 13th
of March, 1S50. On Sept. 3, 1852, the first company of emigrants assisted
by this fund arrived at S. L. City in chai-ge of Abraham 0. Smoot. Richards'
Hist. Incidents of Utah, MS., 18; Deseret News, Sept. 18, 1S52; Utah Emi-