Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Peterson, Samuel W. September 5, 1834 - 
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SAMUEL W. PETERSON, Justice of the Peace and farmer, section 27, Ashland 
Township, was born Sept. 5, 

1834, in Prince Edward Co., Prov. of Ont., and is a son of Col. Samuel and 
Margaret (loyst) Peterson.  

His parents were natives of the Dominion of Canada, where his father was a 
citizen of distinction.  He 

was for 30 years a Magistrate, under the Provincial law that required a 
subject to be worth 500 pounds 

sterling in order to be eligible to the appointment, and in 1856 he was 
appointed Colonel of the Canadian 

Militia and held the post as long as he lived.

Mr. Peterson remained in Canada, associated with his father, 30 years.  He was 
educated principally at 

Victoria College, Coburg, Ont., amd afterward studied one term at the 
Provincial Normal School at 

Toronto, to fit himself for teaching in the public schools, which profession 
he has followed for 12 

years.  In 1856 he was appointed Adjutant, under his father, and discharged 
the duties of the position 

four years.  In the summer of 1864 he came to Michigan and located on section 
27 of Ashland Township, 

where he purchased 25 acres of land for a homestead.  On coming to the county 
of Newaygo, he engaged two 

terms teaching, since which he has devoted himself to farming, and the 
business pertaining to his 

appointment as Agent of the State Board of Correction and Charities at Lansing 
and Coldwater.  He was 

appointed by the Government as Census Enumerator for the township of Ashland 
in 1880, and made out his 

returns according to law.

Mr. Peterson was married July 22, 1864, to Samantha J., daughter of John and 
Eunice Redick, of Ashland 

Township.  The parents were natives of New York, and early in life removed to 
Ontario, Can., where the 

daughter was born, and resided with her parents until she was 23 years of age, 
when her family settled in 

Ashland Township.

Mr. and Mrs. Peterson have had four children; all are living and were born as 
follows:  George, April 13, 

1865; Walter S., July 12, 1866; Carrie and Harry (twins), July 22, 1868. Mr. 
Peterson is a Republican in 

politics, and in 1871 was appointed Postmaster of Lake.  Mrs. Peterson died 
April 3, 1873, and Mr. 

Peterson again contracted marriage July 17, 1873, with Mrs. Irene Applegarth, 
widow of the late Dr. 

Applegarth.  She was born Aug. 7, 1828, near London, Middlesex Co., Ont.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait and Biographical Album of Newaygo Co.

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