Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Peterson, James A. 1871 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 November 27, 2014, 12:37 pm

Source: See Below
Author: L. A. Fritsche

JAMES A. PETERSON.

    James A. Peterson, well-known farmer and stockman, of Eden township, this
county, who, in partnership with his brother, is operator of a fine farm of
three hundred and twenty acres, situated a little more than eight miles from
Sleepy Eye, is a native son of Brown county, having been born on the farm where
he still makes his home, January 16, 1871, son of John C. and Mary (Jensen)
Peterson, natives of Denmark and early residents of Brown county.

    John C. Peterson was reared on a farm in his native land and in 1858, when a
young man, came to the United States, proceeding directly from New York to
Racine, Wisconsin, in the neighborhood of which city he was engaged in farm
labor until the Civil War broke out. He enlisted :;n the Thirty-first Regiment,
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served with that command for two years and
nine months, during which time he participated in a number of the most important
battles of the war, including Sherman's campaign to the sea. Upon the conclusion
of his military service he returned to Wisconsin, but in 1866 came to Minnesota,
settling in Brown county. He bought a quarter section of land in Eden township
and there established his home. He prospered in his undertaking and presently
added to his place by the purchase of an adjoining quarter section and lived
there the rest of his life, his death occuring in March, 1912. He and his wife
were the parents of eleven children, Hannah, James, Frank, Emma, Lydia, Anna,
Albert, Emilia, Agnes, Elmer and William.

    James Peterson was reared on the home farm receiving his education in the
district school in the neighborhood of his home and in the schools of Sleepy
Eye, in the meantime assisting his father in the development of the farm. Being
the eldest son, much of the active labors of management fell upon his shoulders
during the later years of his father's active farming. In 1909 he associated
with himself his brother, Albert, and in a mutually agreeable partnership the
brothers have since been successfully operating the same, being regarded as
among the most progressive and substantial farmers in that neighborhood. They
have made about eight thousand dollars worth of improvements on the place, have
a ten-acre grove on the farm and are very comfortably and pleasantly situated.

    Mr. Peterson is a member of the Baptist church at Sleepy Eye and takes an
earnest interest in various neighborhood good works. He has ever given a good
citizen's attention to the local civic affairs and has held the office of
township supervisor, justice of the peace and of road overseer. He is an
"independent" voter.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mn/brown/bios/peterson489gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mnfiles/

File size: 3.6 Kb