San Mateo County CA Archives Biographies.....Peterson, Martin September 20, 1882 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (1928)


MARTIN PETERSON

   Sweden has contributed to this country some of our best blood and we are
indebted to it for many who have in very large measure furthered the progress
and development of this country. One of the most progressive and enterprising
business men of Burlingame, San Mateo county, is Martin Peterson, who has won
here an enviable reputation as a capable and reliable contractor. Mr. Peterson
was born in Sweden on the 20th of September, 1882, and was there reared and
educated. In 1901, at the age of nineteen years, he came to the United States,
landing at New York city with a cash capital of thirty dollars. He at once began
to learn the carpenter trade, at which he was employed in that city and at
Summit, New Jersey, until 1904, when he went to San Francisco. There he soon
found employment and after the great fire of 1906 worked on the erection of a
number of large buildings as superintendent of construction. In the meantime,
feeling the need of better preparation for his life work, he attended the
evening high school for three years, specializing in architectural drawing. In
1920 Mr. Peterson came to Burlingame and built two bungalows after his own
designs, which immediately appealed to the tastes of home seekers and were soon
sold, those who bought them being still pleased with their homes. Soon
afterwards Mr. Peterson entered the hardwood floor contracting business, which
he successfully carried on for a number of years, but has recently returned to
the general contracting business, and in the past nine months has completed nine
fine homes in this section of the county. Painstaking and thorough in everything
that he undertakes, he employs none but expert workmen, with the result that he
has won a well merited reputation for trustworthiness in all of his engagements
and is now commanding all the work that he can do. He possesses to a marked
degree those qualities which commend him to the good favor of his fellowmen and
is deservedly popular among his acquaintances.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY
OF
SAN MATEO
COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO, ILL. 
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1928

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