Frank Clinton Peterson

Brief Life History of Frank Clinton

When Frank Clinton Peterson was born on 5 July 1921, in Kane, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States, his father, Everett Alonzo Peterson, was 23 and his mother, Minnie Ellen Smith, was 23. He married Patricia Fraker on 8 May 1948, in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Election District 9, Park, Wyoming, United States in 1940 and Notus, Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 8 November 1987, in Byron, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Byron, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.

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Frank Clinton Peterson
1921–1987
Patricia Fraker
1930–2018
Marriage: 8 May 1948
Michael John Peterson
1953–2019

Sources (10)

  • Frank C Peterson, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Frank Clinton Peterson, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
  • Frank Clinton Peterson, "Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights

Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

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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