Andrew Peterson

Brief Life History of Andrew

Andrew Peterson was born in October 1865, in Dalarna, Sweden. He married Johanna Wilhelmina Carlson Sjostedt Persdotter on 30 November 1891, in Clearwater, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Lamont, Grant, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He died in 1943, at the age of 78.

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Family Time Line

Andrew Peterson
1865–1943
Johanna Wilhelmina Carlson Sjostedt Persdotter
1863–1940
Marriage: 30 November 1891
Arthur Ralph Peterson
1893–1955
Edna Peterson
1897–1905
Elsie Peterson
1899–1976

Sources (10)

  • Andrew Peterson in household of Daniel Peterson, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Andrew Peterson, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Andrew Peterson - Memory of Someone: death:

World Events (8)

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

1867

Historical Boundaries: 1867: Sedgwick, Kansas, United States

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).

Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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