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D. Biddinger has, generally speaking, the best lot of goods in Petersburgh, and his trade
is increasing.
[Rochester Union-Spy, Friday, January 11, 1878]
Mr. Jas. Gray is our knight of the last at Petersburgh, and all persons are invited to call
and get their so(u)les repaired.
[Leiter’s Ford Items, Rochester Union Spy, Friday, February 8, 1878]
PETERSON, BOYD [Rochester, Indiana]
PETERSON, DIST. MANAGER FARM INSURANCE FIRM
Boyd Peterson has been named district director of the State Farm Insurance Companies,
after having served 15 years as local agent and adjuster. He now will be assisted by William H.
Gray, Tom Marshall, Devern Brubaker and John Shanley, of Kewanna.
Mr. Peterson will supervise organization work in six north-central Indiana counties, and
will maintain his office here.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, January 13, 1940]
PETERSON, RAYMOND S. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] - - - - GASOLINE - - - - MOTOR OILS - - - - - - - Products of the Pure Oil
Company, sold in Rochester, exclusively by RAYMOND S. PETERSON, 524 North Main St.
General Tires and Tubes.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, January 27, 1928]
PETERSON, FREDERICK [Fulton/Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
Frederick Peterson [also Petersen) - American customs and ideas are soon accepted by
those who come from the old countries to seek fortune or fame, while race and descent form no
particular barrier to honest worth.
The subject of this sketch is a native German, born, December 18, 1832, near the city of
Flensburg, in the province of Schleswig, Germany. His parents, Christian and Margaret Peterson,
are natives of the same province, both born in the year, 1800, and are now living on the old home
farm.
Frederick is the second of the family of five children. His education, while no more than
an ordinary German one, is above the ordinary American standard, owing to the German system of
compulsory education. He assisted his father in the labor on the farm, yet, like all German youths,
he must have some trade or profession, and he chose the miller’s trade, at which he worked, under
an apprenticeship, for a time, and at the age of twenty years the desire to seek fortune in a new
country grew so strong that he bade adieu to home and friends and sailed for America. Landing at
New York on the 9th day of July, 1852, he immediately started for Fulton County, Ind., where he
had friends living, and where he took up a permanent residence. He had not come with a fortune,
so was compelled to do any kind of work he could find to do. He engaged his services in a saw
mill near Fulton, in the southern part of the county. His intention and purpose being to earn an
honest living, and at the same time to acquire a knowledge of the English language, of which he
was wholly ignorant, he labored and studied for nearly two years in this place, then procured a
situation in a flouring mill at Logansport, where he remained for some time, and during all this
time he was learning the English language and adopting the American customs. By strict
economy and hard labor he had accumulated sufficient means in these years to enable him, in
partnership with Mr. John Plunk, to purchase and build a saw mill, which they conducted for a few