Peter C. Peterson
Peter C. Peterson has a well improved place called “Lozenge Farm,” located in Fly Creek Valley, and consisting of 158 acres in the northeast quarter of section 29, Pigeon Township, where he has lived since its purchase Nov. 15, 1901. He has a comfortable home and suitable barns, and successfully carries on general farming, making a specialty of raising high grade Holstein cattle. His public service has included membership on the school board since 1913. His church affiliation is with the Norwegian Lutheran Church, of which he is a trustee. Mr. Peterson was born in Madison, Wis., April 29, 1867, and remained at home until locating on his present farm. He was married April 29, 1894, to Christina Eidsvoog, who was born in Norway, May 9, 1868, and came to America in 1890, her father, Peter Eidsvoog, dying in Norway in 1893, and her mother, Cecelia Nelson, in the same year. The children in the Peterson family are four : Nettie, born Jan. 9, 1895, who was graduated from Gale College and the Winona Business College, and is now a bookkeeper for Jones-Kroeger & Co. of Winona, Minn.; Cora, born Jan. 27, 1899, who was graduated from the Whitehall high school in the class of 1917, and is now teaching at Lidgerwood, N. D.; Tilmer, born April 25, 1904, and Palmer, born March 23, 1911. The two youngest are living at home. The parents of Peter C. Peterson were Christian Peterson and Toro Olson Nordness. The father was born in Norway, May 10, 1837, came to America in 1857, and worked as a clerk in Madison, Wis., until August, 1868, when he came to Trempealeau County, and settled in section 16, Lincoln Township, where he died June 29, 1917. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served a year in Company F, 45th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. The mother was born in Norway, Jan. 23, 1844, and died Jan. 22, 1916.
(from HISTORY OF TREMPEALEAU COUNTY WISCONSIN
Compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge
Edited by Eben Douglas Pierce, M.D.
H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.
Chicago and Winona 1917)
(from HISTORY OF TREMPEALEAU COUNTY WISCONSIN
Compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge
Edited by Eben Douglas Pierce, M.D.
H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.
Chicago and Winona 1917)