Biographical Sketch of Charles E. Peter, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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Charles E. Peter, representing the Western Land & Cattle Company, of
Kansas City and London, England, was born near Edinburgh, Scotland,
April 21, 1863, and is the son of Henry T. and Elizabeth (Peter) Peter,
natives of Scotland, and cousins.  The father died in his native
country in March, 1886, when seventy-nine years of age, but the mother
is still living, and is fifty-seven years of age.  Both were members 
of the Scotch Episcopal Church.  The father was a manufacturer of linen
cloth on an extensive scale, his being one of the oldest establishments
of the kind in Scotland.  There were born to their marriage four child-
ren, three now living, and Charles E. being the youngest.  He received
his education at Dollar Academy and Edinburgh, and soon afterward serv-
ed a five years' apprenticeship as engineer, in the foundry at home.
Later he went to Dundee, then to London, where he worked for the 
"P. & O." Steamship Company, in the capacity of engineer, for six
months.  He then went home soon after and in February, 1885, he came to
the United States, locating in Texas County, where he took charge of 
the property belonging to the Western Land & Cattle Company.  Mr. Peter
is a Democrat in politics, is a citizen of the United States and in-
tends to make this country his home.  In connection with managing the
property of the Western Land & Cattle Company, Mr. Peter is also en-
gaged in farming on an extensive scale.

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