"History of Rice and Steele Counties, Minnesota, Illustrated, Vol. II"; compiled by Franklin Curtiss-Wedge (1916) Transcribed by SD
N. P. Peterson, a prosperous contractor and builder of Owatonna, Minn., has attained his success by persistent and persevering hard work. He was born in Denmark, February 26, 1858, and is a son of Peter and Christina (Nelson) Peterson. His parents came from Denmark, their native country, in 1875, with their family, and settled on a one hundred acre farm in Somerset township, Steele County, Minnesota. Here they made a home and reared their family, and the father carried on general farming until his decease in 1884. The mother survived till the spring of 1895. Our subject grew up in Denmark as a farmer boy and there attended the public schools and came to this country with his father and mother. At the age of twenty-two, in 1880, he took up the carpenter’s trade and followed it in St. Paul and Minneapolis some four years. Returning to his home, in 1884, he established himself in business in Owatonna as a builder and contractor and so continued until recent years, during which he has worked more especially as a cement contractor, building sidewalks and doing other work in that line, for the most part in the city of Owatonna. Mr. Peterson is known as a straightforward, upright, reliable man in his line of work and by his honorable dealing has gained the confidence of all who know him. He has given himself closely to his business and has had little leisure for outside affairs. In his religious belief he adheres loyally to the tenets of the Baptist denomination. In political sentiment he is a Republican. On December 14, 1887, Mr. Peterson married Miss Hannah, daughter of Lars and Marie (Jensen) Peterson, who came from Denmark in 1883 and settled on a farm in Blooming Prairie Township, Steele County. The father carried on farming there till 1901, when he sold the home farm and moved with his family to Owatonna. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson have four children, of whom Mae C., the oldest, is a student at Carleton College; Louis F. is a student at Pillsbury Academy, and N. Paul and Dorothy Harriet are home with their parents.
"The Daily People's Press", Owatonna, Minnesota, Thursday, April 11, 1946.
Nels P. Peterson, East Broadway, died yesterday afternoon at his home here. He was 88 years old.
Mr. Peterson is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mae Hauser on Minneapolis and Miss Dorothy Peterson of Mason City, Iowa, and by one son, Paul Peterson of Globe Ariz.
Arrangements for funeral services are yet to be made. They are in charge of the DeGroat Funeral service.
N. P. Peterson, a prosperous contractor and builder of Owatonna, Minn., has attained his success by persistent and persevering hard work. He was born in Denmark, February 26, 1858, and is a son of Peter and Christina (Nelson) Peterson. His parents came from Denmark, their native country, in 1875, with their family, and settled on a one hundred acre farm in Somerset township, Steele County, Minnesota. Here they made a home and reared their family, and the father carried on general farming until his decease in 1884. The mother survived till the spring of 1895. Our subject grew up in Denmark as a farmer boy and there attended the public schools and came to this country with his father and mother. At the age of twenty-two, in 1880, he took up the carpenter’s trade and followed it in St. Paul and Minneapolis some four years. Returning to his home, in 1884, he established himself in business in Owatonna as a builder and contractor and so continued until recent years, during which he has worked more especially as a cement contractor, building sidewalks and doing other work in that line, for the most part in the city of Owatonna. Mr. Peterson is known as a straightforward, upright, reliable man in his line of work and by his honorable dealing has gained the confidence of all who know him. He has given himself closely to his business and has had little leisure for outside affairs. In his religious belief he adheres loyally to the tenets of the Baptist denomination. In political sentiment he is a Republican. On December 14, 1887, Mr. Peterson married Miss Hannah, daughter of Lars and Marie (Jensen) Peterson, who came from Denmark in 1883 and settled on a farm in Blooming Prairie Township, Steele County. The father carried on farming there till 1901, when he sold the home farm and moved with his family to Owatonna. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson have four children, of whom Mae C., the oldest, is a student at Carleton College; Louis F. is a student at Pillsbury Academy, and N. Paul and Dorothy Harriet are home with their parents.
"The Daily People's Press", Owatonna, Minnesota, Thursday, April 11, 1946.
Nels P. Peterson, East Broadway, died yesterday afternoon at his home here. He was 88 years old.
Mr. Peterson is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mae Hauser on Minneapolis and Miss Dorothy Peterson of Mason City, Iowa, and by one son, Paul Peterson of Globe Ariz.
Arrangements for funeral services are yet to be made. They are in charge of the DeGroat Funeral service.
"History of Rice and Steele Counties, Minnesota, Illustrated, Vol. II"; compiled by Franklin Curtiss-Wedge (1916) Transcribed by SD
N. P. Peterson, a prosperous contractor and builder of Owatonna, Minn., has attained his success by persistent and persevering hard work. He was born in Denmark, February 26, 1858, and is a son of Peter and Christina (Nelson) Peterson. His parents came from Denmark, their native country, in 1875, with their family, and settled on a one hundred acre farm in Somerset township, Steele County, Minnesota. Here they made a home and reared their family, and the father carried on general farming until his decease in 1884. The mother survived till the spring of 1895. Our subject grew up in Denmark as a farmer boy and there attended the public schools and came to this country with his father and mother. At the age of twenty-two, in 1880, he took up the carpenter’s trade and followed it in St. Paul and Minneapolis some four years. Returning to his home, in 1884, he established himself in business in Owatonna as a builder and contractor and so continued until recent years, during which he has worked more especially as a cement contractor, building sidewalks and doing other work in that line, for the most part in the city of Owatonna. Mr. Peterson is known as a straightforward, upright, reliable man in his line of work and by his honorable dealing has gained the confidence of all who know him. He has given himself closely to his business and has had little leisure for outside affairs. In his religious belief he adheres loyally to the tenets of the Baptist denomination. In political sentiment he is a Republican. On December 14, 1887, Mr. Peterson married Miss Hannah, daughter of Lars and Marie (Jensen) Peterson, who came from Denmark in 1883 and settled on a farm in Blooming Prairie Township, Steele County. The father carried on farming there till 1901, when he sold the home farm and moved with his family to Owatonna. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson have four children, of whom Mae C., the oldest, is a student at Carleton College; Louis F. is a student at Pillsbury Academy, and N. Paul and Dorothy Harriet are home with their parents.
"The Daily People's Press", Owatonna, Minnesota, Thursday, April 11, 1946.
Nels P. Peterson, East Broadway, died yesterday afternoon at his home here. He was 88 years old.
Mr. Peterson is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mae Hauser on Minneapolis and Miss Dorothy Peterson of Mason City, Iowa, and by one son, Paul Peterson of Globe Ariz.
Arrangements for funeral services are yet to be made. They are in charge of the DeGroat Funeral service.
N. P. Peterson, a prosperous contractor and builder of Owatonna, Minn., has attained his success by persistent and persevering hard work. He was born in Denmark, February 26, 1858, and is a son of Peter and Christina (Nelson) Peterson. His parents came from Denmark, their native country, in 1875, with their family, and settled on a one hundred acre farm in Somerset township, Steele County, Minnesota. Here they made a home and reared their family, and the father carried on general farming until his decease in 1884. The mother survived till the spring of 1895. Our subject grew up in Denmark as a farmer boy and there attended the public schools and came to this country with his father and mother. At the age of twenty-two, in 1880, he took up the carpenter’s trade and followed it in St. Paul and Minneapolis some four years. Returning to his home, in 1884, he established himself in business in Owatonna as a builder and contractor and so continued until recent years, during which he has worked more especially as a cement contractor, building sidewalks and doing other work in that line, for the most part in the city of Owatonna. Mr. Peterson is known as a straightforward, upright, reliable man in his line of work and by his honorable dealing has gained the confidence of all who know him. He has given himself closely to his business and has had little leisure for outside affairs. In his religious belief he adheres loyally to the tenets of the Baptist denomination. In political sentiment he is a Republican. On December 14, 1887, Mr. Peterson married Miss Hannah, daughter of Lars and Marie (Jensen) Peterson, who came from Denmark in 1883 and settled on a farm in Blooming Prairie Township, Steele County. The father carried on farming there till 1901, when he sold the home farm and moved with his family to Owatonna. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson have four children, of whom Mae C., the oldest, is a student at Carleton College; Louis F. is a student at Pillsbury Academy, and N. Paul and Dorothy Harriet are home with their parents.
"The Daily People's Press", Owatonna, Minnesota, Thursday, April 11, 1946.
Nels P. Peterson, East Broadway, died yesterday afternoon at his home here. He was 88 years old.
Mr. Peterson is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mae Hauser on Minneapolis and Miss Dorothy Peterson of Mason City, Iowa, and by one son, Paul Peterson of Globe Ariz.
Arrangements for funeral services are yet to be made. They are in charge of the DeGroat Funeral service.
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