BIOGRAPHIES:  Aaron F. PETERSON, Stockholm, Pepin Co., WI

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Aaron F. Peterson, dealer in agricultural implements, Stockholm, Pepin
county, was born September 24, 1855, and was the first boy and the
second child born in Stockholm.  His parents, Jacob and Sarah Maria
(Wickstrom) Peterson, were blessed with eight children:  Hannah
Frederika (Mrs. J. Bast), John E. (deceased), Maria Ulrica (Mrs. J.
Larson), Lotta (deceased), Aaron F., Emily Elinor (Mrs. G. Stilly),
Edwin C. (deceased) and Ernest U.  Jacob Peterson was a native of
Sweden, and came to America with his family in 1853.  In the spring of
1854, with several other families, they came to Stockholm, then a
wilderness, and Mr. Peterson built a log house, the first permanent
building in the township.  A settlement, consisting of two or three
cabins, which were afterward abandoned, had been previously made a mile
or two below the present village, and here the women and children of
the party found shelter until Mr. Peterson's house could be built. 
This served as a home for the whole party until each family could build
a cabin.  Jacob Peterson engaged in farming, which occupation he
followed until his death, which occurred January 14, 1890, at the age
of seventy-four years and five months.  Mrs. Peterson died January 31,
1891, aged seventy years, five months and ten days.  Mr. Peterson was a
member of the Lutheran church.  In politics he was a strong republican,
and served his town as member of the school board, and as township
treasurer and assessor.  He was an enterprising, public-spirited
citizen, and took an active interest in the development and progress of
the town.

Aaron F. attended the common school, and later the Keokuk classical
institute, completing the English course in 1874.  At the age of twenty-
two he engaged in the lumber trade at Stockholm, later he built a store
and with a partner engaged in the mercantile business.  Since 1880 he
has been dealing in agricultural implements.  May 1, 1883, he married
Miss Anna Norell, and they are the parents of seven children, namely: 
Myrtle Irene, Elsie Dorothea, Arthur Ferdinand (deceased), Almond
Raymond, Albion Lorenzo, Etta Evelyn, and a baby unnamed.  He is a
republican in politics, and has filled the offices of postmaster, town
clerk, county sheriff, and is now justice of the peace.  Mr. Peterson
is an intelligent and courteous gentleman.  He attends the Mission
Friends church.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 787


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