Introduction

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.