Peterson, Christian

PETERSON

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/25/2019 at 16:18:22

Christian Peterson

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.80, Boomer Twp.)
Farming, P. O. Crescent City, was born in Denmark December 20, 1831, but he remained there till he was twentytwo years old; came to Missouri, and was there about a year, and then to Kansas, and remained in Kansas, but made several other changes before he settled in Pottawattamie County in 1867; tte spring of 1868, he bought his present farm, and moved onto it, and since that time he has been living here. He was married, in 1852, in Denmark, before he came to America, to Miss Anna M. Christenson. They have six children, three boys and three girls. His farm consists of 240 acres, about half in cultivation, the other half is in timber, pasture and meadow land. When first buying he only got eighty acres, and paid a little over $16 per acre, and since that time he has been adding to it and improving; his farm now is well improved. On the first eighty acres there was a little frame shanty and ditches for fences. He has been a member of the Grange since it started, and of the Good Templars; he is Republican in politics; he is also a member of the Mutual Protection Society.