Nels H. Peterson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1471-1472 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	NELS H. PETERSON is a native of Denmark, where he was born in 
1854. He received his early education in his native land, where he was 
reared to the age of eighteen years, when he started forth to try his 
fortune in America, whither he came in the year 1872. He made his way 
westward to the city of Chicago and was for a time employed in railroad 
work and then turned his attention to farm work, in which he was engaged 
near Woodstock, Illinois, for two and one-half years, having in the 
meanwhile secured a small farm of his own in that section. At the 
expiration of the period noted he disposed of his interests there and 
came as a pioneer to what is now Moody county, South Dakota. Here he 
took up a homestead claim of one hundred and sixty acres, and as the 
years have passed prosperity has attended his efforts and he has added 
to the area of his landed estate until he is now the owner of six 
hundred and forty acres of as fertile and valuable land as can be found 
in the state.