Biographical Sketch of Loss Peterson, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Loss Peterson, farmer of Union Township, Pulaski County, MO., was
born in Sweden in 1832, and is the son of Peter Peterson, who 
married a Miss Ingera.  They were also born in that country, the
father being a farmer and a carpenter by occupation.  They were
the parents of four children, two of whom are living:  Loss and
Paer G.  The paternal grandfather was Peter Peterson, who was born
in Sweden, and there spent his days.  Loss Peterson went to Denmark
in 1854, where he engaged in farming until 1867, when he immigrated
to the United States and located at Urbana, Ohio, making his home
in that town for ten years, being engaged in tilling the soil.  He
then concluded to try his luck a little farther westward, and 
accordingly located in Missouri, where he purchased the farm of 188
acres where he now lives.  He has eighty acres under cultivation,
and is already considered one of the thrifty farmers of the county.
In 1859 he was wedded to Miss Esther Grangoard, who was born in
Schleswick Holstein, Germany, March 14, 1834, and by her is the 
father of three children:  Ingera, Peter and Anna Margareta.  Mr.
Peterson is a Democrat politically, and his first presidential vote
was cast for Samuel J. Tilden in 1876.  He is a member of the Agri-
cultural Wheel, and he and family worship in the Lutheran Church.
His wife is the daughter of Hans C. and Anna Margareta (Nicholson)
Grangoard.  The father is a shoemaker, and he and wife are the
parents of nine children, two of whom, one son and one daughter are
residing in America.

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