Thomas Karren was born on the

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, 1 May 1810; died in

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4 Apr 1876. He joined the

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in 1846 and was honorably discharged in 1847. In 1852 he was among the first LDS missionaries sent to the

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(Hawaii).MSS 4065; Thomas Karren mission journals; 19th Century Mormon and Western Manuscripts; L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.

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