Charles A. Peterson

As printed in 1916

CHARLES A. PETERSON.

Charles A. Peterson is one of the influential and progressive citizens of Vergas, Otter Tail county. Minnesota, who has achieved success in his chosen calling. He is a native of the southern part of Sweden, where his birth occurred on July 1 4, [869. I lis parents were Andrew A. and Christine Peterson, also natives of Sweden, who were born in 1837 and [840, respectively. Andrew A. Peterson was a millwright by profession and followed that trade until 1905, at which time he retired and is now living on a farm near Nashuit. Christine Peterson, his wife, passed away in 1903. They were both members of the German Lutheran church and were the parents of three children, whose names follow: August, who died in Sweden in km 1: Charles V and Elias. Elias is a farmer and lives with his father.

Charles A. Peterson received his early education in the schools of his native land, immigrating to America when twelve years of age. I le came alone to the United States and located in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, where an uncle. John Molt, was then living. For four years he lived with his relative and attended the public schools of Elizabeth, Minnesota, following which he was employed as a farm hand on the surrounding farms, for more than four years. lie then accepted a position as a clerk in a store in Elizabeth, Minnesota, and continued in this occupation until 1904. About this time. it became evident that the town of Vergas was an assured fact and he immediately began erecting a small store, with the intention of entering the mercantile business in the new town. Building operations were begun in March. 11104. anil a store, twenty-four by forty feet, was soon completed. Two years later an addition was built and in 1908 another addition, twenty-six by eighty feet, was erected, which now makes the entire building fifty by eighty feet, with more than half of it two stories in height. The first stock of g Is was valued at two thousand dollars and the present stock at twenty thousand dollars, and is the largest store in the locality. It draws a trade from a radius of ten miles west and six miles east and south. Four clerks are constantly employed to serve the public and part of the time five are employed.

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As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.