The full biographical sketch as printed in 1916, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
ANDREW A. PETTERSON.
\ successful merchant of Battle Lake, Minnesota, is Andrew A. Petter- son, who was born in Fillmore county, Minnesota, July 17, 1863, and who is a son of Peter Anderson and wife, both natives of Norway, who came to the United States from their native land about 1862, settling in Fillmore county, Minnesota, where the former died in 1864. while his widow passed away in Otter Tail county, about 1880. Peter Anderson and wife were the parents of five children, of whom Andrew A. was the youngest born. The other children were Herman, Christian, Gusta and Dorothy.
Andrew A. Petterson received his education in the public schools of Otter Tail county, where the family came in 1870, and began on his own responsibility by renting a farm in Nidaros township. After following farm- ing for some little time, he was employed as a clerk in a general store at
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Clitherall, Minnesota, for one year. !n 1904 Mr. Petterson came to Battle Lake. Minnesota, and for the next five years was manager of the Larson & Hansen general store. In 1909 -Mr. Petterson purchased this store, which has since been operated under the firm name of A. A. Petterson & Company.
In [885 Andrew A. Petterson was married to Julia Holstemon, of Clay- ton county, Iowa, and to this union have been born four children: Gustav, a professor in charge of one of the departments of the Normal school at Mankato, Minnesota. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, and has also taken post-graduate work at the same institution. He was the first dean of Vaselen University at Mitchell, South Dakota. Adolph, the second sen of Mr. Petterson and wife, who was a graduate of the Fergus Falls high school, and who would have graduated from the dental department of the University of Minnesota, in IQJ> died in February, 1915. at the age of twenty-two years. His death was a severe shock to his parents and to his hosts of friends whose confidence he enjoyed in his home community and at school where he was very popular. Ella, who is a graduate of the State Normal School, at Moorhead, Minnesota, taught two years at Camp- bell, Wilkie county. Minnesota, and also taught in the schools of Appleton. Minnesota. Clarence, the youngest horn of Mr. Petterson's children, is a student in the high school at Battle Lake.
Mr Petterson and family are prominent members of the Lutheran church at Battle bake, and are prominent citizens of this community, and have worthily discharged all the duties of life, both public and private.
Source: History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota (1916. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.
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