Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Peterson, John 1825 - 
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  JOHN PETERSON, better known as B. W. Peterson, one of the leading farmers of
Collinwood township, and one of its most enterprising citizens, is a native of
Sweden, born October 18, 1825, and is the son of Peter Johnson and his wife, Jennie
(Matson) Johnson. He was reared and educated in his native land, and was an inmate
of his father’s house until he had attained the age of thirty-eight. December 25,
1850, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Olson, and for three years thereafter
made his home with the old folks. Purchasing a timber farm, he then took up his
residence upon it, and made it his home until 1867, clearing off the timber and
cultivating its soil, when he sold out and emigrated to the new world in search of a
home in the land of the free. Coming to Minnesota on landing, he at first settled in
Carver county, but two years after removed to this county and purchased eighty acres
of land on section 36, Collinwood township, where he now lives. All of the
improvements upon his place are the result of his own energy and diligence, and are
a credit to his industry.

  Mr. and Mrs. Peterson are the parents of six children, of whom the following is
the record— Jennie, born March 17, 1852, married Paul Anderson, and lives in Wright
county; Olof, born January 24, 1860, married Miss Betsy Larsen, and resides in this
township; Martha, born August 24, 1854, and is the wife of B. N. Peterson, of
Cokato, this State; John, born September 6, 1862; Peter, who was- born in 1857 and
died in 1859; and Peter, born in 1865 and died in 1877. Although a poor man when he
came here, Mr. Peterson has, by the exercise of excellent judgment and hard work,
placed himself in a condition of comparative comfort.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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