Brief Life History of Jacob Silas
When Jacob Silas Peterson was born on 22 November 1862, in Mission Township, LaSalle, Illinois, United States, his father, Peter J. Peterson, was 26 and his mother, Tomena A. Classon, was 19. He married Christena Nelson on 16 March 1899, in Norway, LaSalle, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Sheridan, LaSalle, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Newark, Kendall, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 25 February 1951, at the age of 88.
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- Silas Peterson im Haushalt von Peter J Peterson, „United States Census, 1880“
- Silas J. Peterson, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"
- Silas J Peterson in entry for Florence L Thompson, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866
Historical Boundaries: 1866: LaSalle, Illinois, 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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