Except that we know John Peter Backman came to the United states with his nephew Gustave Hilmer Backman, I find no record of his departure. Peter had gone to sea, working the great waters between Sweden and Great Britain, possibly at greater distances, as well. Gustave's memoir states that Peter intended to leave the seafaring life in Liverpool in 1877, that the two of them stayed with Peter's sister Charlotta in that town.
They sailed aboard the Ship Wyoming, with a large company of Saints, the group presided over by Elder Udall, a missionary returning to the States. The journey would last ten days and was uneventful, generally. Gustave reported seasickness in himself, and he was not alone, but they group cleared the medical checks on arriving in New York and were on the westward train shortly.
We have this from Jackilynn Latin, in her biography of Peter in the www.familysearch.org profile:
At the time of John Peter’s departure for America he was engaged to a girl named Augusta Stein of Sweden. Her family, all converts to the church, moved to Utah prior to 1877.
Once John Peter’s bags were unpacked, he posted a letter to Augusta, requesting that they meet and set a date for their marriage. Several days later, Augusta’s father came to him and unfolded the sordid tale of Augusta’s suicide due to involvement with another man.
When the sad swain’s anguish had abated somewhat, he remembered another comely miss named Matilda whom he knew in Sweden.
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