Herman “Jack” Back Backman Sr. (1873-1965)

Herman “Jack” Back Backman Sr.

Birth

7 Mar 1873

Mustasaari Municipality, Ostrobothnia, Finland

Death

15 Mar 1965 (aged 92)

Beals, Washington County, Maine, USA

Burial

Sewall Field Cemetery

Beals, Washington County, Maine, USA Add to Map

Plot

Sect 03, Row 01, Lot 02, Grave 01

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Herman Backman Sr. got a job on a steamer at age 15 and wanted to see America. He worked his way overland to Hamburg, Germany and on December 15, 1889 shipped out on a steamer loaded with sugar bound for Philadelphia, PA. After seeing all of Philadelphia and the Liberty Bell, Mr. Backman decided that he would stay in America. He then got a job as a sailor on a square rigged barkentine bound for Cuba with a load of coal making several trips to Cuba and then took a job on a two-masted schooner, the "Emmaline", skippered by Capt. Eben Alley of Beals, Maine. Herman eventually decided to make Beals Island his home and when Herman was 25 he gave up sailing and went into the lobster business.
BEALS - Herman Backman Sr., 92, a fisherman for 70 years, died early Monday at his home following a long illness. He was the son of Isaac and Ulrika (Back) Backman. He came to this country as a young man and was engaged in the fishing industry for 70 years. He married the former Rhoda Estelle Church of Jonesport, who died in May 1964. He is survived by five sons, Fulton I.; Otto A.; Donald L.; Bernard A.; and Herman Backman Jr. with whom he made his home at Beals; four daughters Mrs. Ulrika E. Faulkingham; Mrs. Rebecca A. Graves; Mrs. Louisa Crowley and Mrs. Laura Beal; 22 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; eight great-great-grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Three of his children are deceased.
Funeral services will be held at the Advent Christian Church in Beals with the Rev. Stanley White, pastor officiating & assisted by Rev. George Delong of the reformed Baptist Church of Beals.
Interment will be in the Sewall Field Cemetery on Beals.

Inscription

Herman was probably born March 7, 1874 in Karkmo, Mustasaari on Backman homestead, but the family used the family name Back. Birthdays book are not online, but in the parish book have Herman the year of birth 1874, which means that the gravestone has the wrong year.