When Warren Debs Peterson was born on 3 January 1911, in Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States, his father, George Neilson Peterson, was 30 and his mother, Ethel Estelle McClellan, was 28. He died on 24 October 1911, at the age of 0, and was buried in Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States.
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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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