“A company of emigrating Saints (141 souls) sailed from Copenhagen, Denmark, May 28, [1891], bound for Utah; 41 of these were from the Skane, 14 from the Goteborg, 66 from the Stockholm, 11 from the Aarhus and 9 from the Aalborg Conference. The following Elders who returned from missions accompanied the emigrants: Carl Soderlund, John A. Beckstrand, Nils Nilson, Andrew P. Renstrom and Boye B. P. Petersen. ” [HSM, 318]

“Saturday June 6. The steamship ‘Nevada’ sailed from Liverpool with 187 souls of the Saints on board, namely 14 emigrant Saints from Great Britain, 141 from Scandinavia, and 22 from the Swiss and German Mission, and ten returning Elders, whose names were as follows: James Bywater, John S. McMurray, Edward W. Swann and Wm. H. Evans from the British Mission; Andrew P. Renstrom, John A. Beckstrand, B [BLANK SPACE] P. [B] Peterson, Carl Soderlund, and Niels Nielson from the Scandinavian Mission, and John J. Scheller from the Swiss and German Mission. (Orig. Doc.)” [BMMH, 1891]. (source abbreviations)