Biography of Francis Marion Peterson, MD, Hale, Alabama

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FRANCIS MARION PETERSON

     Francis Marion Peterson, of Greensboro, Alabama, has long held high and appropriate 
     rank as a physician and surgeon.  James Peterson, his father, was a native of South 
     Carolina, a successful and influential planter and citizen of Pickens county, Alabama, 
     for many years, and was the father of four sons and three daughters.  He married a 
     Miss Cox, also a native of South Carolina; both were descended from among well known and 
     well connected families of the Palmetto State.  Of their sons only he whose name forms 
     the caption of this brief biography, adopted a professional life.  Francis M. Peterson 
     received a liberal academical education, and at the early age of eighteen years he became 
     a teacher in an academy in his native county.  Three years were spent in this avocation.  
     Predilection led him to the study of medicine.  Giving up teaching, he continued his studies 
     at the city of Columbus, Mississippi, under a private preceptor.  In 1845, he attended a 
     course of lecturers in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, attending, 
     also, the Blockley Alms House.  In the spring of 1846, he located at Greensboro, Alabama, and 
     at once entered upon the practice of his profession.  In this same year, he was married to
     Miss Amanda Shivers, of Greensboro.  She bore him three sons, and then passed away in death, 
     in 1858.  The oldest of these sons became a very promising physician, but died at the early age 
     of thirty years.  The other sons are ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  
     In 1861, Dr. Peterson was married a second time, wedding a daughter of Dr. Alexander Sledge, 
     of Greensboro.  Three daughters are the issue of this marriage.  For a period of over twenty years 
     Dr. Peterson continued in an active successful, and remunerative practice, then, in response to his 
     indomitable thirst for knowledge, he entered the University of New York, receiving from that 
     institution a diploma in 1869...

Ref:  Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894, 
      Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, pp. 665-666.