BIO: Anton PETERSON, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 825 & 826.
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  ANTON PETERSON, one of the representative citizens and substantial business 
men of Clearfield county, Pa., who has been engaged in the mercantile line since 
1905 at Lanse, was born September 26, 1864, in Dalsland, near Wenersborg, 
Sweden, a son of Peter and Anna Eliza (Olsdotter) Anderson.
  Peter Anderson, or Peterson as it became in this country, was a well-to-do 
farmer in Sweden, where he died in 1892, aged eighty-three years.  He was twice 
married, and by his first marriage had five children, of whom only one is now 
surviving, Mrs. Lars Olson, who lived for eight years in Arnett, Tioga county, 
Pa., but who now lives in Dalsland.  Mr. Anderson's second wife, who died in 
1910 at the age of seventy-one years, bore him six children, as follows:  
Alfred, who was an American citizen and died at Arnett, aged forty-two years; 
Anton; Charlotta, who is the wife of John Johnson of Ramey; Augusta, who is the 
wife of Adolph Segerlin, of Anita, Jefferson county; Jennie, who married 
Theodore Fosberg, of Anita; and Catharina, twin of Jennie, who is single and 
living in Dalsland, Sweden.
  Anton Peterson attended school in Gerstad, Sweden, and left school at the age 
of fifteen years to work on his father's farm.  In 1883 he came to America, on 
April 12th of which year he located at Arnett, Pa., and secured employment in 
the mines and later in the woods.  During 1886 he took a trip to Sweden, but on 
April 24, 1887, he returned to Arnett, and one year later located in Peale, 
Clearfield county.  On April 26, 1888, he entered the employ of the Clearfield 
County Bituminous Coal Corporation, and during his residence in Peale he was for 
thirteen and one-half years organist of the Swedish Lutheran church, he having 
been given a musical education when young.  On January 11, 1905, Mr. Peterson 
came to Lanse, and on the 19th of the same month, in partnership with John 
Jacobson, he erected a store room and engaged in the mercantile business.  Later 
he bought Mr. Jacobson's interest, and he has continued to conduct the 
enterprise to the present time.  Mr. Peterson started with little capital, and 
whatever success he has acquired has been due to his persistent efforts, his 
natural business ability and his policy of square dealing and honesty towards 
all.  He resides in a nice home which he purchased from the Murray Lumber 
Company of Philipsburg.
  Mr. Peterson was married in 1890, to Miss Mary Larson, the daughter of Andrew 
Larson, of Peale, and they have had three children, Victoria, Agnes and Herbert 
Seigfried, all at home and the latter in the eighth grade of the Winburne 
school.  Mr. Peterson is a member of the Swedish Lutheran church and for twenty-
eight years has been a Republican.  He has done much towards furthering the 
interests of his adopted country and is a public-spirited and reliable citizen, 
having been naturalized in Clearfield in 1898, before Judge Cyrus Gordon.