Charles F. Peterson Biography


	This biography appears on page 809 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				CHARLES F. PETERSON.  

	Charles F. Peterson, a photographer, having studios both at 
Deadwood and Lead, was born in Sweden on the 4th of March, 1869, and 
after coming to this country attended the Lutheran Academy at Wahoo, 
Nebraska. When seventeen years of age he began work for a local 
photographer and remained in that connection until he was twenty-one 
years of age. He then removed to Deadwood and entered the employ of a 
photographer in that city. He subsequently worked at his trade in a 
number of different cities but in 1892 returned to Deadwood and opened 
a studio of his own as a member of the firm of Locke & Peterson. In 
1902 he bought out his partner and has since conducted the business 
alone. In 1911 he started a gallery at Lead in connection with a Mr. 
Wilson under the style of Peterson & Wilson, their studio being located 
on Main street and receiving a large patronage. Mr. Peterson is also 
agent for the Haynes automobiles and is successful in this line of 
activity.