History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . une 2, 1884, the son of James and Mary (Nelson) Peterson, who located inGrundy County in 1869, and became owner of a 330-acre farm, which they improvedand engaged in raising grain and stock. The mother died at Cedar Falls, November22, 1917, while the father now makes his home with his son, H. M. Peterson in OrangeCounty. This worthy couple had seven children, our subject being the elde
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . une 2, 1884, the son of James and Mary (Nelson) Peterson, who located inGrundy County in 1869, and became owner of a 330-acre farm, which they improvedand engaged in raising grain and stock. The mother died at Cedar Falls, November22, 1917, while the father now makes his home with his son, H. M. Peterson in OrangeCounty. This worthy couple had seven children, our subject being the eldest. Spendinghis childhood on the farm he attended the local schools and later the private academyat Stewart, in the same state. When old enough to push out into the world, Mr. Peterson took up traveling forthe United Neckwear Manufacturing Company of Waterloo, Iowa, and as their repre-sentative, covered Iowa, Minnesota and part of Nebraska. On June 2, 1917, at Mus-kogee, Okla., he was married to Miss Myrtle Ward, a native of Kansas, in whichhustling Middle West state she was born at Abilene. Her father was William Ward,and he was born in Ohio, afterwards removing to Princeton, 111., and later to Abilene,. HISTORY OF ORAXGE COUNTY 1431 Kans., where they were farmers: he had married Ida Bricker and they now live inMarshalltown, Iowa. Mrs. Peterson is the fourth youngest of their six children. Fora time Mrs. Peterson attended the Iowa Teachers College at Cedar Falls, and afterwardsthe A. N. Palmer School of Penmanship in the same city and after her graduationbecame supervisor of penmanship in the Muskogee, Okla., schools, for a period ofthree years, up until her marriage, and soon after this they removed to Lamar,Prowers County, Colo., and there Mr. Peterson engaged in contracting and the end of five months, however, he decided to come, to California, and the stepproved the wisest he had made. On November 30, 1918, he arrived in Anaheim, and soon purchased a five-acreg
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