Frank A. Peterson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 635-636 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				FRANK A. PETERSON.  

	Frank A. Peterson, a retired farmer of Clay county, was born in 
Sweden, April 8, 1839, of the marriage of Peter and Ingra Peterson, 
both of whom were natives of that country. The father emigrated to 
America with our subject and both took up homesteads in South Dakota, 
where Peter Peterson resided until his death at the advanced age of 
eighty-one years. To him and his wife were born two children, the 
younger son being Charles Peterson, who is a farmer in Minnesota. 

	Frank A. Peterson grew to manhood upon the homestead in Sweden 
and attended school in that country. He assisted his father with the 
farm work and thus acquired a practical knowledge of agriculture. Upon 
his marriage he purchased a farm which he operated for ten years and 
then sold on emigrating to America. He first settled in Minnesota, 
where he lived for a short time, but thinking to find better 
opportunities in this state, he came here and took up a homestead in 
Clay county fifteen miles north of Vermillion. Subsequently he 
homesteaded another tract of land in the same county. His father also 
proved up upon one hundred and sixty acres which our subject eventually 
purchased. He has given two of his children eighty acres apiece and 
still owns one hundred and sixty acres, which he rents. He derives a 
good income from his land and is living retired, enjoying a competence 
accumulated by former years of labor. 

	Mr. Peterson was married September 8, 1861, to Miss Matilda 
Peterson, a native of Sweden and a daughter of Peter M. Peterson. Both 
her father and mother were born in Sweden and spent their entire lives 
in that country. To Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Peterson were born ten 
children: Alfred, deceased; Josephine, the wife of Charles Berglund, a 
resident of Burbank, this state, by whom she has six children; Amanda, 
the wife of Peter Bowman, of Centerville, South Dakota, by whom she has 
three children; Oscar, a farmer of Union county; Hilda, the wife of 
Charles Lyckholm a farmer of Clay county, by whom she has four 
children; Minnie, the wife of C. J. Johnsen, who is operating our 
subject's farm in Clay county; Harry, a farmer of Clay county, who is 
married and has one son; Charles, deceased; and Emma and an infant, 
also deceased.  

	Mr. Peterson is a republican and stanch in his support of the 
principles of his party. His stand upon moral questions is indicated by 
his membership in the Lutheran church, of which he is an officer. 
During the many years that he has resided in Clay county his 
straightforward, upright life has gained him the goodwill and the 
respect of all and there is no more valued citizen of Clay county than 
Mr. Peterson.