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Few can claim to have traveled by ox team, wagon, horse and buggy, bicycle, car and airplane, but when Hilda Anderson Erickson flew to Washington D.C. at the age of 106 to meet the President of the United States, she accomplished the feat. In 1964, at the age of 104, Hilda was officially named the last surviving Mormon pioneer immigrant of over 80,000 who crossed the plains by wagon or handcart, prior to the coming of the railroad to Utah in 1869. Hilda was born on December 1, 1859, in Ledsjo, Sweden, and came to the United States with her family, arriving in the Utah Territory when she was seven years old. She had auburncolored hair and was known as a hard worker. She began earning money by sewing clothes-the first of several career skills she would master. She married John A. Erickson on February 23, 1882, and served a 12-year Church mission with him in Ibapah, Deep Creek Valley, Utah, near the Nevada border. On their mission, the Photo Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. Ericksons taught the Goshute Indians farming techniques. Noting the need for a more effective system of midwifery in the Ibapah area, Hilda left for Salt Lake City to study obstetrics. She received certification a year later and returned to Deep Creek Valley, where she delivered nearly all of the babies born there for the next two decades. The location of the Deep Creek Valley was such that a high amount of traffic made the Erickson's mercantile business successful. Hilda became a storekeeper, manager, buyer, clerk, and hotelier. The Ericksons, with their two children, later Courtesy Photo Hilda in her younger years was an expert horsewoman. moved 30 miles away to Grantsville, Utah. When John was called on a threeyear mission for the Church to Hilda's native land of Sweden, Hilda single-handedly tended to the oversight of the family's ranch. She was an expert horsewoman and was well educated in the business of livestock dealing. 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