Swen Jacobs
Swen Jacobs, his personal and family background, and his involvement of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Swen Jacobs
1823-1890
Biographical Sketch
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Early Life in Norway
Svend Svendson (Swen Jacobs or Swen Johnson Jacobs) emigrated from Norway to the United States.
Immigration to America and onto Utah
He was 26 years old when he immigrated to Utah in 1849. (Heart Throbs of the West, 10:458; 11:423.)
To Cedar City and the Ironworks
In the 1850s he was a pioneer in southern Utah.
In the Iron Military District: Private Swen Jacobs, Company E, Isaac Haight's 2nd Battalion
In 1857, Swen Jacobs, 33, was an private in one of the platoons in the Iron County militia. He was not listed in the 1859 federal arrest warrant. However, John D. Lee identifies him as present at the massacre.
Leaving Cedar City for Lehi in Utah Valley
Following the disaster at Mountain Meadows and the collapse of the Cedar City ironworks, Swen Jacobs and his younger brother moved north to Lehi in Utah County. During the 1860s, Swen Jacobs and his brother John were city policeman in Lehi.
References
Carter, Heart Throbs of the West, 10:458; 11:423; Gardner, History of Lehi, 161; Lee, Mormonism Unveiled, 232, 380 (refers to "Irvin" Jacobs); Lee Trial transcripts; Shirts and Shirts, A Trial Furnace, ; Walker, et al, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, Appendix C.
For full bibliographic information see Bibliography.
External Links
For further information on Swen Jacobs, see:
- http://mountainmeadowsmassacre.org/appendices/appendix-c-the-militiamen
- Deseret Iron Company Account Book, 1854-1867: http://www.footnote.com/document/241905844/
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