 1879 - 1963
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| Born |
31 Mar 1879 |
Törnevalla, Östergötlands Län, Sweden  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
1930 |
McIntosh, Corson, South Dakota, United States [2] |
| Name |
Guss Peterson |
| Died |
Mar 1963 [1] |
| Notes |
- According to grandson (William August Peterson), worked in steel mines in Pennsylvania.
According to son, Donald Peterson): 1901 - Grandpa Peterson's first crossing - he went back to Sweden on trips about 3 times after original crossing
His father was a shoemaker, but August didn't want to do that. At the age of 9 he started working on a farm for 10 hours a day. He had 3 years of formal schooling (school was for 3 month a year). Two brothers; Oscar and Otto. Mother died; dad remarried and had three daughters; Anna Esther and Elsa.
August first came to Philadelphia where he worked in a dairy; moved to Philadelphia and worked at the steel mills. Came down with TB - a Swedish doctor told him to move away from there, work on a farm and drink lots of cream. He moved to Wisconsin and worked on a farm, where he drank cream as often as he could for 2 years.
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| Person ID |
I451 |
Doddema |
| Last Modified |
2 Mar 2010 |
| Family |
Alice ANDERSON, b. 7 Aug 1887, Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States , d. Yes, date unknown |
| Married |
4 Aug 1917 |
| Children |
| | 1. Peter Bernard PETERSON, b. 15 Apr 1919, McIntosh, Corson, South Dakota, United States , d. 8 Dec 2000, Redlands, San Bernardino, California, United States |
| > | 2. Clarence Gottfried PETERSON, b. 8 May 1923, McIntosh, Corson, South Dakota, United States , d. 22 Sep 2006, La Brea, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| > | 3. Living |
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| Family ID |
F165 |
Group Sheet |
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| Sources |
- [S154] Social Security Administration database, entry for August Peterson, 1963, SS no. 503-03-4742, accessed 17 Aug 2008.
- [S145] 1930 US Federal Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: McIntosh, Corson, South Dakota; Roll: 2220; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 14; Image: 823.0.
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