Adolph Johannes Petersen

M 1810 - 1905
Type Value
Name Adolph Johannes Petersen
Born 1810-07-04 Altona, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Gender M
Died 1905-01-16 Templeton, San Luis Obispo County, California
Buried
Type Value
Father
Mother
Type Value
Family Auguste Elizabeth Stackflate b. (1812, Hamburg, Germany) d. (1873, Reinbeck, Grundy County, Iowa)
Married 1839-00-00
Children 3 Amelia A. Petersen b. (1844-03-27, Meldorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) d. (1923-04-20)
1 Emma Petersen b. (1838-10-25, Dithmarschen, Germany) d. (1922-06-03)
2 H. Petersen

Notes

Died Calif. age 96

Did Petersen family and Horstmann family emigrate to Iowa together?

Kelly McKinley shows several cities as birth places for children of Adolph Johannes Petersen, Jr.’s children: Meldorf, Melford, Mildorf. Since I can not find these cities on 1840 maps or in gazetteers, I believe these are errors and that these children were born in Meldorf.

Kelly McKinley shows DOD as February 16, 1906.

H. PETERSEN

…is one of the leading business men of Templeton, San Luis Obispo County, California. He is a native of Hamburg, Germany, born July 5, 1840. His parents, Adolph and Augusta Peterson, were Germans who emigrated to the United States, in 1855, bringing their family of six children with them, the subject of this sketch being the second child of the family. They settled near Davenport, Iowa, on a farm of 150 acres, which they bought. They built a home on the property, and made other improvements.

Mr. Petersen had received his education in Germany and was fifteen years of age when they came to America. When he began life for himself, he had twelve dollars. He engaged in farming on shares, and continued it until 1868, when lie moved west to Grundy County, and purchased 160 acres of prairie land, at five dollars per acre. Here he built a house and improved the property, and lived for fifteen years. At this time the railroad was built to Reinbeck, and Mr. Petersen moved into town, and opened a hardware and agricultural implement business. He built one store and purchased another, and did a prosperous business until 1886, when he sold out. He was elected a member of the Twenty-first General Assembly by the Democratic party, while there, and served the term of office with credit to himself and his constituents. In the spring of 1886 he visited California, and traveled the State over, looking for a place to settle. In 1887 be came to San Luis Obispo County, and invested in 200 acres of land near Templeton and bought two village lots. In October, 1888, he brought his family to their new home. He bought the hardware business of Mr. E. Griffith, the principal business of the place. It had been started in the spring of 1887. Mr. Petersen has since continued the business, and has made a success of it. He deals in both hardware and agricultural implements, and his trade extends out for twenty-six miles. His lands are rented and he is getting a share of the crops. He has engaged, to some extent, in the culture of fruit on his lands, principally French prunes.

Mr. Petersen was married in Iowa, in 1863, to Miss M. Klein, a native of Saxony, and of German parentage. They have had ten children, seven of whom are living, viz: Teresa, Ida, Antonette, Henryetta, Carl, Rudolph, and Hubert, all born in Iowa. Teresa and Antonetta are married, one in Kansas, and the other in San Bernardino, California. Mr. and Mrs. Petersen are Lutherans, and he is an Odd Fellow. He is still a member of the Democratic party; is a man having well defined business and political ideas; has a general information on all topics; gives his business close personal attention; and is withal a worthy citizen and desirable acquisition to the new town in which he has cast his lot.

A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California Mrs Yda Addis Storke, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1891: Page 263 Transcribed: December 30, 2005 by Martha A Crosley Graham

Died Calif. age 96

Did Petersen family and Horstmann family emigrate to Iowa together?

Kelly McKinley shows several cities as birth places for children of Adolph Johannes Petersen, Jr.’s children: Meldorf, Melford, Mildorf. Since I can not find these cities on 1840 maps or in gazetteers, I believe these are errors and that these children were born in Meldorf.

Kelly McKinley shows DOD as February 16, 1906.

H. PETERSEN

…is one of the leading business men of Templeton, San Luis Obispo County, California. He is a native of Hamburg, Germany, born July 5, 1840. His parents, Adolph and Augusta Peterson, were Germans who emigrated to the United States, in 1855, bringing their family of six children with them, the subject of this sketch being the second child of the family. They settled near Davenport, Iowa, on a farm of 150 acres, which they bought. They built a home on the property, and made other improvements.

Mr. Petersen had received his education in Germany and was fifteen years of age when they came to America. When he began life for himself, he had twelve dollars. He engaged in farming on shares, and continued it until 1868, when lie moved west to Grundy County, and purchased 160 acres of prairie land, at five dollars per acre. Here he built a house and improved the property, and lived for fifteen years. At this time the railroad was built to Reinbeck, and Mr. Petersen moved into town, and opened a hardware and agricultural implement business. He built one store and purchased another, and did a prosperous business until 1886, when he sold out. He was elected a member of the Twenty-first General Assembly by the Democratic party, while there, and served the term of office with credit to himself and his constituents. In the spring of 1886 he visited California, and traveled the State over, looking for a place to settle. In 1887 be came to San Luis Obispo County, and invested in 200 acres of land near Templeton and bought two village lots. In October, 1888, he brought his family to their new home. He bought the hardware business of Mr. E. Griffith, the principal business of the place. It had been started in the spring of 1887. Mr. Petersen has since continued the business, and has made a success of it. He deals in both hardware and agricultural implements, and his trade extends out for twenty-six miles. His lands are rented and he is getting a share of the crops. He has engaged, to some extent, in the culture of fruit on his lands, principally French prunes.

Mr. Petersen was married in Iowa, in 1863, to Miss M. Klein, a native of Saxony, and of German parentage. They have had ten children, seven of whom are living, viz: Teresa, Ida, Antonette, Henryetta, Carl, Rudolph, and Hubert, all born in Iowa. Teresa and Antonetta are married, one in Kansas, and the other in San Bernardino, California. Mr. and Mrs. Petersen are Lutherans, and he is an Odd Fellow. He is still a member of the Democratic party; is a man having well defined business and political ideas; has a general information on all topics; gives his business close personal attention; and is withal a worthy citizen and desirable acquisition to the new town in which he has cast his lot.

A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California Mrs Yda Addis Storke, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1891: Page 263