History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . y of those who were commissionedofficers in the war of the Rebellion. Be isalso an Odd Fellow and a Mason. PETERSON, James A., is a lawyer andprominent member of the Minneapolis was born on his fathers farm near thevillage of Alderly, Dodge county. Wis., Jan-uary IS, 1859. He is of Norwegian descent,both his parents having been born in Thele-marken, Norway. His father Aslak Peter-sou, is a farmer and lives in the town
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . y of those who were commissionedofficers in the war of the Rebellion. Be isalso an Odd Fellow and a Mason. PETERSON, James A., is a lawyer andprominent member of the Minneapolis was born on his fathers farm near thevillage of Alderly, Dodge county. Wis., Jan-uary IS, 1859. He is of Norwegian descent,both his parents having been born in Thele-marken, Norway. His father Aslak Peter-sou, is a farmer and lives in the town of Ash-ippuu. Dodge county. Wis., where he haslived since 1849, at which time he came as anemigrant from Norway and took the farm heis now living on as a homestead from theUnited States government His mothersmaiden name was Karen Marie was married to Mv. Ieterson in the oldcountry. The subject of this sketch attendedI he country school near his home until hewas fourteen years of age, leaving it to at-tend school in the neighboring villages ofHartford and Oconomowoc. James was ofiiiubitious temperament and was anxious to HISTORY OF THE GREAT JAJIES A. PETERSON. receive the benefit of a college parents, however,were unable to providehim with the means to accomplish this, so hewas compelled to rely upon his own re-sources. He taught school for a part of thetime to pay his expenses while attending col-lege, and with the exception of the last year,when he had some help from his father, earned the money to pay for his own educationthrough the entire course. This educationwas received in the university of entered the freshman class in the fall of1880, taking the ancient classical course, andgraduated in the fall of 1884, with the de-gree of A. B. While at the university hewas a member of the Hesperian debatingsociet} and was the leader of the debate forhis society in 1881. He was also a mem-ber of the Phi Kappa Psi
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