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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)
LEONARD PETERSON.
From Sweden has come to America many of this country's most desirable and successful men of foreign birth. Industrious, resourceful, serving their adopted country honestly and faithfully, and men who in the material things of life have achieved great results, as they have in the matters of good lives and citizenship, they have won a conspicuous place in the hearts of the American people. Of this type of manhood and citizenship is Leonard Peterson, the subject of this sketch, who is one of the prosperous farmers and stock raisers of Otter Tail county.
Leonard Peterson was born in Sweden on June 17, 1876, the son of C. J. and Christine 1 Johnson-) Peterson, both of whom were born in Sweden, in which country they lived until the year 1878, when they came to America and settled in Kossuth county, Iowa, where they invested in some railroad land, on which they lived until the year 1903, and then they moved to Otter Tail county, Minnesota, living there until, during the year [905, the) went to the town of Fergus Falls, where C. J. Peterson has since lived in retirement. C. I. and Christine Peterson are active and devout members of the Swedish Baptist church, a congregation in which they are highly respected and worthy communicants. To the marriage of C. J. and Christine Peterson have been horn two suns, Elmer and Leonard.
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moved to that place in the spring of the year 1915, and has since been located there, where he engaged in general farming and in the feeding and the breeding of highiclass Guernsey cattle, this together with the raising of Chester White hogs.
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Leonard Peterson i among the best known of the farmers of the community and is known as a man of public spirit and a man who is at all times willing to do his duty in matters having for their object the betterment of the community life. Mrs. Peterson is known as an active member of Our Savior's Norwegian Lutheran church, being prominent and conspicuous in the worship and work of that organization.
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.
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