When Arthur Marion Peterson was born on 15 February 1892, in Circleville, Piute, Utah, United States, his father, James Ephraim Peterson, was 36 and his mother, Caroline Gottfredson, was 33. He married Lola Juanita Backman on 6 June 1917, in Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Brooklyn Election Precinct, Lemhi, Idaho, United States in 1940 and World for about 20 years. He died on 29 December 1981, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The Genealogical Society of Utah is formed. - A precursor society to FamilySearch, the GSU was organized on November 13,1894, in the Church Historian's Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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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.
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