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Born 1858
From 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)
CHARLES G. PETERSON.
Charles G. Peterson was born at Osta, Jutland, Sweden, October 31, 1858, the second son of Peter Carlson and Kristine (Peterson) Carlson, both natives of Sweden. Peter Carlson was born on February 12, 1809, and his wife was born on December 8, 1825. The couple came to America in 1882, accompanied by two sons, the eldest son Peter, having already taken up his residence in this country. UJpon their arrival in Minnesota they went to Fergus Falls, where for two years they made their home with Peter Peterson, who was established in a business there. Peter Carlson spent his last days on the farm owned by his son, Charles, and at his request was buried on the homestead in January, 1901. His wife is still living, at the age of ninety years. She is the mother of the following children: Peter, who follows the occupation of a carpenter in Fergus Falls; Charles, the subject of this sketch, and Walter, a painter at Fergus Falls.
Charles G. Peterson, after completing his education in the public schools of Sweden, took up the carpenter's trade, which he has continued to follow. He came to America in 1882 with his parents, and after a residence of two years in Fergus falls took up a homestead claim of eighty acres in Otter Tail county, a place which has since been called, on account of its early development, '"Peterson's Point." Mr. Peterson, aside from clearing the timber and cutting away the underbrush from the land, has built his own house and tinbarns on tin1 farm and has laid out a number of roads. Although he follows the occupation of general farming, Mr. Peterson devotes a large part of his time to carpenter work-, in which branch of
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