James Peterson

Brief Life History of James

When James Peterson was born about 1846, in Maryland, Otsego, New York, United States, his father, James M Peterson, was 37 and his mother, Martha J Barber, was 29. He lived in Meredith, Delaware, New York, United States in 1855.

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Family Time Line

James M Peterson
1810–1853
Martha J Barber
1818–1853
Peterson
1833–
Peterson
1833–
Peterson
1835–
Almond B. Peterson
1838–1909
Amos Peterson
1840–
James Peterson
1846–
Peter M. Peterson
1848–
Alzina Barber Peterson
1841–1918

Sources (1)

  • James D Peterson in household of James M Peterson, "United States Census, 1850"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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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