Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Jacobson, Peter F. 1854 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

PETER F. JACOBSON.

    Sweden is the native land of many of the well-to-do and influential
residents of Marshall county, and among the number, few deserve more special
mention than Peter F. Jacobson, one of the substantial farmers and stockmen of
Cottage Hill township, who was born on August 18, 1854, and is the son of Jacob
and Mary Elizabeth (Jones) Erickson. The parents spent their lives in Sweden and
were among the prominent people of the community in which they lived and where
thye [sic] were held in the highest regard and esteem. The father was born in
March, 1803, and died in 1866; his wife was born in 1816 and died in 1869. They
were the parents of eight children, five of whom are living. Three of the family
came to the United States: Charlie, Christena and Peter F. Charlie is now living
at Vikberg, Kansas, where he is one of the well-known men of the community and
Christena is the wife of Nels Johnson, of Randolph, Kansas. Charlie was the
first of the family to seek a home in America. In 1868 he decided that he would
seek a home in this country and later landed on the shores of the United States
and at once proceeded to the state of Kansas, where he has met with much success.

    Peter F. Jacobson received his education in the schools of Sweden and there
grew to manhood. At the age of twenty-eight years, he sailed for the land where
he hoped to make his future home. For a time after his arrival in this country
he worked in the wire mills at Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1883 he came to
Kansas and worked as a stone mason and carpenter in Waterville and in Cottage
Hill township. During his single life in this country he made his home with his
sister, Mrs. Charlotte Aim, in Ripley county, Kansas. In addition to his work in
Marshall county, Mr. Jacobson worked for a time in Colorado, where he was
engaged as a mason and carpenter, trades that he had learned in Sweden.

    In 1887 Peter F. Jacobson was married to Mary L. Blomquist, who was born in
Illinois on February 1, 1868, being the daughter of Peter Blomquist and wife,
who were natives of Sweden and who came to the United States in an early day.
They first located in Illinois and later came to Marshall county, where they
homesteaded land in 1870. To Peter F. and Mary L. Jacobson have been born the
following children: Judith L., James L., Ernest P., Emanuel R., Daniel, Gladis
R., Helen M. and one that died in infancy, whose name was Rebecca. Judith L. was
born on October 30, 1888, and received her education in the public schools and
is now teaching at the Spring school district; James L., February 21, 1890, is a
graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural College and is now teaching in the
high school at Salena, Kansas; Ernst P., December 19, 1891, at Denver, Colorado,
and is now at home with his parents; Emanuel R., May 28, 1895; Daniel, June 7,
1897; Gladis R., March 7, 1900, and Helen M., April 5, 1909. Mr. and Mrs.
Jacobson are active members of the Baptist church and take much interest in all
church work and they and their family are active in the social life of the
community.

     Mr. Jacobson is an independent Republican in politics and looks rather to
the man than to party affiliations in the selection of officers to administer
the affairs of the township and county. For a number of years he has held the
position of treasurer of the school district, and has always taken an active
interest in the development of the schools of the township, and one of his
ambitions has been to have the schools attain the highest degree of proficiency.
He is a shareholder in the Farmers Union at Waterville and in the Blue Rapids
Fair Association, and has always taken an active interest in promoting the best
interests of the county.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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