Vera Peterson

Female1898–12 December 1898

Brief Life History of Vera

When Vera Peterson was born in 1898, in Minnesota, United States, her father, Fred L Peterson, was 28 and her mother, Della Mae Irish, was 25. She died on 12 December 1898, in Whitewater Township, Winona, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Minneiska, Winona, Minnesota, United States.

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Family Time Line

Fred L Peterson
1870–1940
Della Mae Irish
1873–1946
Peterson
1898–1898
Vera Peterson
1898–1898
Hazel Peterson
1902–1983

Sources (2)

  • Peterson, "Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980"
  • Verna Peterson, "Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990"

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Siblings (3)

World Events (2)

1898 · War with the Spanish

Age 0

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1898 · The Kensington Runestone

Age 0

A Swedish man, Olof Ohman, was farming on his land when he came across a 202-pound rock slab that had strange writing on it. Convinced it was proof that Scandinavian explorers came to that area before Columbus found the Americas, he had it looked at by scholars and linguists to find its translation. There has been a drawn-out debate on the stone's authenticity, with a scholarly consensus that classifies it as a hoax and the community which is convinced that it is authentic.

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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