Thomas Karren (May 1, 1810-April 4, 1876) was an American soldier and Mormon missionary. He was born on the Isle of Man, 1 May 1810 and died in Lehi, Utah 4 Apr 1876. He joined the Mormon Battalion in 1846 and was honorably discharged in 1847.Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, , 20–28, 238–40. In 1852 he was among the first LDS missionaries sent to the Sandwich Islands (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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