Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....PETERSON, FREDERICK J. February 24, 1874 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 12, 2007, 6:46 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. MILWAUKEE COUNTY Sixth District The sixth ward of the city of Milwaukee. FREDERICK J. PETERSON (Rep.) was born in Neenah, February 24, 1874. He was educated in the public schools and high school of Neenah and in the Philadelphia Orthopedic Institute of Physio- Therapy at Philadelphia and returning to this state taking charge of the Therapeutic department at the Northern Hospital at Oshkosh, Wisconsin for eight years, the same position at Pennoyers sanatorium at Kenosha, Wisconsin for three years, and at the Lake Geneva Sanatorium eight years after which he moved to Milwaukee and has practiced his profession in that city ever since. Although taking- a keen interest in municipal, state and national politics, Dr. Peterson never sought or held a public office until elected to the Assembly in 1920. He was re-elected to the assembly in November, 1922, receiving 1,489 votes to 1,413 for Eugene Cooney (Soc). --- Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/peterson104nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb