1864–1929

Introduction

Born: Sep­tem­ber 24, 1864, Sol­ber­ga, Näss­jö, Jön­kö­pings, Swe­den.

Died: Feb­ru­ary 14, 1929, Hur­on, South Da­ko­ta.

Buried: Ideal Ce­me­te­ry, Hur­on, South Dakota.

Biography

Victor was the hus­band of Ali­da Jen­nie Lin­de­borg.

He was edu­cat­ed at Au­gus­ta­na Col­lege, Rock Island, Il­li­nois (BS 1889, mas­ter’s de­gree lat­er) and Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty.

He was a prof­ess­or of phy­sics and che­mis­try at Au­gus­ta­na Col­lege for 16 years, start­ing in 1890.

In 1906, he joined the Rock Is­land Trop­ic­al Plan­ta­tion Com­pa­ny, and man­a­ged a Mex­i­can rub­ber plan­ta­tion.

After the ven­ture fold­ed due to po­li­ti­cal in­sta­bil­i­ty in Mex­ico, Pe­ter­son went in­to real es­tate and in­sur­ance.

He be­came head of the che­mis­try de­part­ment of Hur­on Col­lege, South Da­ko­ta, in 1920, and re­tired in 1928.

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