Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 264 - 265  

DANIEL PETERSON is one of the most genial and whole-souled men of Sedgwick County. On section 17, in Delano Township, he has built up a fine homestead. He represents now about $23,000 worth of property, the larger part of which he has accumulated by his own thrift and industry. His tastes have always inclined him to agricultural pursuits, and the stock-raising industry has found in him one of its most able representatives. The essential points in his history we give as follows:

      Our subject is the son of Eric and Carrie (Anderson) Peterson, and was born Oct. 19, 1848, in the northern part of Sweden, where he was reared on a farm, and received a good education in the Scandinavian tongue. He left his native soil when a youth of eighteen years, in company with his father's family, which included three children, and after reaching the United States they made their way directly westward to Lawrence, Kan., where the father engaged in farming, and where our subject worked by the month until his marriage. The parents are still living in Lawrence.

      Two years after his arrival in this country our subject was united in marriage with Mrs. Carrie (Lindgren) Peterson, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride in Lawrence, on the 8th of March, 1868. Mrs. Peterson was born in February, 1841, in Sweden, and is the daughter of Eric and Annie Lindgren, who were also natives of Sweden, and are now deceased. Our subject, soon after his marriage, purchased forty acres of land lying about eight miles from Lawrence, where he carried on farming four years, and then selling out, secured possession of his present property. His land at that time was raw prairie, for which he paid $1.25 per acre, purchasing directly from the Government. Subsequently he added another quarter-section for the consideration of the sum of $500.

      Mr. Peterson battled bravely for a number of years with the elements of a new soil, and looking upon his possessions to-day it is hardly necessary to state that he has made good use of his time and been remarkably fortunate in his investments. The farmhouse and other buildings are substantial and commodious, and with the aid of modern machinery and the most approved methods, the land has been brought to a fine state of cultivation, and yields in abundance the richest crops of Southern Kansas. Mr. Peterson takes pride in his live-stock, of which he has a very choice assortment, including full-blooded Cotswold sheep, graded Short-horn and Hereford cattle, and Morgan and Canadian horses. He has raised as high as thirty-eight bushels of wheat to the acre, sixty of corn, and between ninety to 100 bushels of oats.

      To our subject and his wife there have been born six children, namely: Mary, March 1, 1871; Daniel, Feb. 22, 1873; Lilly, Dec. 27, 1874; Charles, Jan. 15, 1877; Maggie May, May 8, 1882, and John Buell, April 13, 1884. Eric Peterson, the first husband of the wife of our subject, was born in Sweden, Feb. 22, 1840, and by this marriage Mrs. P. became the mother of five children, all natives of Sweden: Carrie, who was born in Sweden, Nov. 22, 1862, is a resident of Lawrence, Kan.; Eric, born Jan. 31, 1864, is a resident of Delano Township; Andrew was born Oct. 26, 1865; Anna, born July 28, 1869, is the wife of Frederick Greinfield, and lives in this county; Oscar, born Dec. 26, 1868, and who is a mute, is attending the school at Olathe, Kan.

      The parents of Mr. Peterson were both born in the year 1811. Daniel was the youngest of their three children; Peter was born Oct. 31, 1845, and is a resident of Colorado; the other one is deceased; Mr. Peterson was a Greenbacker at one time, but of late has cast his influence with the Union Labor party. He has no desire for office, preferring to give his undivided attention to his personal interests.

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