Brief Life History of Olie Peter
When Olie Peter Peterson was born on 16 September 1859, in Denmark, his father, Neils Peterson, was 36 and his mother, Cecil Mary Hanson, was 26. He married Alice Robinson on 9 April 1882, in Calumet, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 28 May 1895, in Waupaca, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Waupaca, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Olie Peter Peterson - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Olie Peter Peterson
- Oley Peterson in entry for Floyd Peterson and Catherine Snyder, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
- Ole Peterson in entry for Albert E. Peterson and Mary Rose Bolben, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · Magasin Du Nord
Magasin is a Danish chain of department stores that was founded in 1868 in Copenhagen and still exists today. They can be found in Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and the UK.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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