Christena Peterson was born on 22 December 1873, in Denmark as the daughter of Nels Peterson and Stime Hansen. She married Nels Adamson on 27 January 1899. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Andrews, Sioux, Nebraska, United States in 1900. She died on 1 July 1948, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 74.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Historical Boundaries: 1877: Sioux, Nebraska, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1894: Dawes, Nebraska, United States
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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