Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1885 — Mormon Recruits. [ARTICLE]

Mormon Recruits.

[New York telegram.) The steamship Wisconsin, which arrived at this port from Liverpool this morning, had among her passengers 514 Swedish and Danish converts to Mormonism. These were in the care of Elder J. Hansen, President of the Emigration Company. All ages were represented, from the gray-haired grandfathers and grandmothers to little grandchildren. Fifteen missionaries were with the flock. This is the largest company of Mormon emigrants that has arrived in the United States since last summer, and it instated that it will be soon followed by another equally as large. Nearly all of the people will settle in the rural districts of Utah. Some will stop in Salt Lake City, and a very few will go to Mexico.