When Byron Charles Peterson was born on 27 July 1904, in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, Charles Peter Peterson, was 26 and his mother, Emma Eliza Christensen, was 27. He married Mildred Elizabeth Olsen on 22 July 1936, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1932 and lived in Gunnison Election Precinct, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 18 August 1985, in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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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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