Son of Johan Olaf Forsgren and Anne Christina Ersson Hollstrand
Married Sarah Bell Davis, 15 Feb 1849, Warren, Kinzua, Pennsylvania
Children - Charles William Forsgren, Sarah Alice Forsgren, John Heber Forsgren
Married Harriet Frances Noon, 17 Jul 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Married Kristine Neilsen Pederson Johnson, 14 Dec 1862, Moroni, Sanpete, Utah
Married Mary Ann Hunt, 11 Oct 1869, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 4, p. 370
His early life was spent as a sailor. At the age of 20 years he became acquainted with the Latter-day Saints in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was baptized July 16, 1843. He went to Nauvoo in 1844, and became acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith. He served as a member of the Mormon Battalion, marched to California, and arrived in Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In 1849-1853 he filled a mission to Scandinavia and baptized the first convert to the Church in that country, his own brother, Peter Adolph Forsgren, July 26, 1850.
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Married Sarah Bell Davis, 15 Feb 1849, Warren, Kinzua, Pennsylvania
Children - Charles William Forsgren, Sarah Alice Forsgren, John Heber Forsgren
Married Harriet Frances Noon, 17 Jul 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Married Kristine Neilsen Pederson Johnson, 14 Dec 1862, Moroni, Sanpete, Utah
Married Mary Ann Hunt, 11 Oct 1869, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 4, p. 370
His early life was spent as a sailor. At the age of 20 years he became acquainted with the Latter-day Saints in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was baptized July 16, 1843. He went to Nauvoo in 1844, and became acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith. He served as a member of the Mormon Battalion, marched to California, and arrived in Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In 1849-1853 he filled a mission to Scandinavia and baptized the first convert to the Church in that country, his own brother, Peter Adolph Forsgren, July 26, 1850.
Mormon Battlion Company D
Son of Johan Olaf Forsgren and Anne Christina Ersson Hollstrand
Married Sarah Bell Davis, 15 Feb 1849, Warren, Kinzua, Pennsylvania
Children - Charles William Forsgren, Sarah Alice Forsgren, John Heber Forsgren
Married Harriet Frances Noon, 17 Jul 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Married Kristine Neilsen Pederson Johnson, 14 Dec 1862, Moroni, Sanpete, Utah
Married Mary Ann Hunt, 11 Oct 1869, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 4, p. 370
His early life was spent as a sailor. At the age of 20 years he became acquainted with the Latter-day Saints in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was baptized July 16, 1843. He went to Nauvoo in 1844, and became acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith. He served as a member of the Mormon Battalion, marched to California, and arrived in Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In 1849-1853 he filled a mission to Scandinavia and baptized the first convert to the Church in that country, his own brother, Peter Adolph Forsgren, July 26, 1850.
Mormon Battlion Company D
Married Sarah Bell Davis, 15 Feb 1849, Warren, Kinzua, Pennsylvania
Children - Charles William Forsgren, Sarah Alice Forsgren, John Heber Forsgren
Married Harriet Frances Noon, 17 Jul 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Married Kristine Neilsen Pederson Johnson, 14 Dec 1862, Moroni, Sanpete, Utah
Married Mary Ann Hunt, 11 Oct 1869, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 4, p. 370
His early life was spent as a sailor. At the age of 20 years he became acquainted with the Latter-day Saints in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was baptized July 16, 1843. He went to Nauvoo in 1844, and became acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith. He served as a member of the Mormon Battalion, marched to California, and arrived in Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In 1849-1853 he filled a mission to Scandinavia and baptized the first convert to the Church in that country, his own brother, Peter Adolph Forsgren, July 26, 1850.
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