When Peter Jeppasson Beckstrom was born on 23 May 1819, in Billinge, Skåne, Sweden, his father, Jeppa Pehrsson, was 31 and his mother, Tröen Andersdotter, was 27. He married Anna Neilsson on 15 October 1848, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 15 February 1870, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
First organized group of emigrants to leave Norway. First emigration to America began with the Sloopers who left in an undersized sloop “Restauration” sailed from Stavanger, Norway on July 4th, 1825.
Fox River Settlement in Illinois begun in 1834. It was the first permanent Norwegian-American immigrant settlement in the Midwest.
Swedish (Beckström): variant of Bäckström (see Backstrom 1) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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