Bio of Borre PETERSON (b.1884 d.1910), Yellow Medicine Co., MN USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: LaNaye Hennen BORRE PETERSON Borre Peterson, deceased, was a homesteader of Norman township and one of the first to settle on the site of Canby. His home was in that city many years, and he was one of the best known men of western Yellow Medicine County. Mr. Peterson was born in Norway November 26, 1839. At the age of seventeen years he came to America and settled at Spring Grove, Iowa. In 1861 he enlisted in the Twelfth Iowa Regiment of Volunteers and served under General Grant at the battles of Forty Henry, Fort Donaldson and Shiloh. At the last named battle he was taken prisoner, and he was held for six months and eleven days at Macon, Georgia. After his release Mr. Peterson returned to his Iowa home and was married to Gunhild Anderson. He remained at home only a short time, re-enlisted, and served until the close of the war. Thereafter until the early seventies he resided at Spring Grove. Then, with his wife and two children, he came to Yellow Medicine county. He took a homestead near the present site of Canby and continued to reside in Canby until the summer of 1907. Then he moved to Naples, South Dakota, where he died April 16, 1910. His first wife died in 1884, and a few years later he was married to Anna Olson. Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose Published 1914