Ingaborg Peterson

Brief Life History of Ingaborg

When Ingaborg Peterson was born on 4 October 1890, in Lösen, Blekinge, Sweden, her father, Peter Johan Petersson, was 36 and her mother, Carolina Andreasdotter, was 32. She married Morris Claus Johnson on 21 May 1924. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Augerum, Blekinge, Sweden in 1901 and Nan Qu, Taichung, Taiwan in 1927. She died on 4 April 1927, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Morris Claus Johnson
1885–1974
Ingaborg Peterson
1890–1927
Marriage: 21 May 1924
Gaylen Morris Johnson
1927–2003

Sources (16)

  • Sweden, Birth Record, 1890
  • Ingeborg Peterson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Ingeborg Johnson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

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World Events (8)

1895

China ceded Taiwan to Japan under the Apr 17 Treaty of Shimonoseki. This followed a war over control of the Korean peninsula. Japanese occupation ended in 1945.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1901

First Nobel Prize awarded.

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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Story Highlight

Memories of Peter Johan Peterson and Carolina Andreasson

(A compilation of the writings of Peter Johan Peterson, Ruth Peterson Johnson Blomquist, Edla Peterson Draper, Marie Peterson Pearson, and Inga Johnson.) Peter Johan (Per) Peterson, (known as Per i B …

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