Knute R. Peterson

Brief Life History of Knute R.

When Knute R. Peterson was born on 1 September 1900, in Hinckley, Pine, Minnesota, United States, his father, Charles Uno Peterson, was 32 and his mother, Jennie Sophia Anderson, was 25. He lived in Hinckley Township, Pine, Minnesota, United States in 1900. He died in April 1976, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 75.

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Family Time Line

Charles Uno Peterson
1868–1952
Jennie Sophia Anderson
1875–1926
George Victor Peterson
1892–1952
Carl Joseph Peterson
1898–1974
Knute R. Peterson
1900–1976
Agda Ruth Elvira Peterson
1902–
Edward Theodore Peterson
1903–1988
John Reuben Herbert Peterson
1906–1966
Rueben Peterson
1906–1966
Roy Heroed Peterson
1908–1908
Jennie Hazel Victoria Peterson
1910–1994
Hazel Jenny Peterson
1911–1994
Mildred I Peterson
1916–

Sources (2)

  • Knute R Peterson in household of Sway Anderson, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Knute Petersen, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

1906 · The End of Capital Punishment

Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

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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