BIOGRAPHIES:  Eric PETERSON, Stockholm, Pepin Co., WI

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ERIC PETERSON, farmer, Sec. 12, Town 23, Range 16, came to Stockholm
in the Fall of 1862, selected his claim and settled on it. He was the
first settler at Stockholm, his nearest neighbor, this side of Pepin,
being Nelson Doty, who lived some distance below here. He engaged in
farming, and in addition, for several years, owned and operated a grain
warehouse and a store. He was born in Herrnas Bjurkarn, Sweden, March
2, 1822, came to the United States in 1849, tarried in Illinois one
year, traveled in the pineries of Minnesota another year, then came to
Wisconsin and settled as above. Early in 1854 he went back to Sweden
for a wife, and in July of that year was married to Miss Louisa
Josephson, of Carlskoga, Sweden, and with her soon after returned to
Stockholm, Wis. She died in the Fall of 1856, leaving one child,
Matilda, now Mrs. Karl A. Peterson. He married Miss Maren Olson, in
Stockholm, Wis., November, 1858. She was born in Norway. They have five
children-Anton, Agnes Cecelia, Amelia, Hilda Frederika, and Julia. Mr.
Peterson has held many town offices, and is now Justice of the Peace.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 706


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