Brief Life History of Elmer Matthew
When Elmer Matthew Peterson was born on 16 February 1894, in Titonka, Kossuth, Iowa, United States, his father, Rasmus Jørgensen Pedersen, was 39 and his mother, Martha Sørensen, was 37. He married Eva Sabina Breen on 25 November 1919, in Buffalo Center, Winnebago, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Buffalo Township, Kossuth, Iowa, United States for about 30 years. He died on 6 June 1974, in Kossuth, Iowa, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Saint Joseph Cemetery, Wesley Township, Kossuth, Iowa, United States.
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- Elmer M Peterson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Elmer Peterson, "Iowa, Marriages, 1809-1992"
- Elmer Petersen, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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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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