John August Peterson

As printed in 1916

JOHN AUGUST PETERSON.

John August Peterson, of Parkers Prairie township, Otter Tail county, Minnesota, was born in Sweden..March 21, 1849, the son of Peter and Marv (Carlson) Anderson. John August Peterson lived in that country where he received his education in the public schools, until the year [869, when he came to America, going to the city of Duluth, Minnesota, where he was employed at railway work between the cities of Duluth and St. Paul, Minnesota, for about one year and a half. In 1872 he came to Otter Tail county, Minnesota, homesteading one hundred and sixty acres of land in Parkers Prairie township, a farm which he leased out while he worked at farm work through the states of Minnesota and the Dakotas, and then about the year 1SS0. returned to his land, which he improved extensively and where he has since lived as one engaged in general agricultural pursuits. After some years of unbroken success as a farmer. John August Peterson added forty acres of adjoining land to his farm, land which later he deeded to his son, Alfred, who is well known among the farmers of the township and county.

John August Peterson and his wife Charlotta (Johnson) Peterson are the parents of two children, Alfred and Edwin. Mr. Peterson and his family are members of the Swedish Lutheran church, they taking an important place in the work and worship of this congregation in the community. In politics John August Peterson is an ardent Republican.

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.