Additionally he was involved in that trade in Great Britain, Russia and Australia and circumnavigated the globe twice over the course of his lifetime.

While in Liverpool he was taught more about the gospel and was later baptized into the LDS Church by Elisha H. Groves in 1864 and in 1865 moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.

The two-story store towered over the surrounding one-story adobe structures and remains standing to this day as a testament to its sound construction.

Amussen was also connected with the early American department store, Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.

His youngest child, Flora Amussen, born in 1901, married LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson.