Aged 64 years, 8 months, 13 days
Ole Peterson Rites to Be Conducted Monday
Manawa - Funeral services for Ole Peterson. 64, resident of Manawa for nearly half a century, will be conducted from the Sacred Heart church here at 8:30 Monday morning by the Rev. A. C. Dionne. Burial will take place in the local Catholic cemetery.
Mr. Peterson' died early Thursday morning at a Madison hospital after an illness of, several months. He had been taken to Madison the previous after-noon.
Born in Falen, Sweden. Sept. 13,1873. Mr. Peterson came to America with his parents when he was nine years old. The family settled on a farm near Merrillan.
When Mr.Peterson reached the age of 19 he heard of a saw mill in steady operation at Manawa, and came here to apply for a week's job with which to earn train fare to the west coast. He never left this village thereafter except for short visits.
He was employed by the Little Wolf River Lumber company here for many years, and when the first electric light and power plant was installed at Manawa. Mr. Peterson became its first operator on Dec. 5. 1902. He continued in that line of work the remainder of his life. Ole Peterson, was the first trouble shooter, operator, meter reader, lineman and wire man, and he had charge of the entire plant. From the time' it started in-1902 until the holdings were sold to the Wisconsin Power & Light company, in 1927 Mr. Peterson was the direct overseer.
His marriage to Miss Edith Jackson of Manawa took place here on Sept. 23. 1896. The widow survives, with seven children. Mrs. Frank Hurley. Green Bay: Mrs. C.W. Plowman, Baraboo; Mrs. George Krautkramer, Shawano: Chester, Los Angeles. Calif.; Philip, Menasha: Maurice, Manawa. and Mrs. E. J. Folmer, Chicago, Ill., : two sisters, Mrs. Worden Hanchett of Asotin.Wash., and Mrs. Ellen Smith of Superior: three brothers, John, Oscar and Harold of Merrillan. And 19 grandchildren. One son. Robert, died at Green Bay on Aug. 1. 1932.
Note: Born in Sweden to Peter Olson, Where as tradition was for the first born son to take fathers first name and add son to it. so Peter-son is Ole's last name was really born to Olson family.
Ole Peterson Rites to Be Conducted Monday
Manawa - Funeral services for Ole Peterson. 64, resident of Manawa for nearly half a century, will be conducted from the Sacred Heart church here at 8:30 Monday morning by the Rev. A. C. Dionne. Burial will take place in the local Catholic cemetery.
Mr. Peterson' died early Thursday morning at a Madison hospital after an illness of, several months. He had been taken to Madison the previous after-noon.
Born in Falen, Sweden. Sept. 13,1873. Mr. Peterson came to America with his parents when he was nine years old. The family settled on a farm near Merrillan.
When Mr.Peterson reached the age of 19 he heard of a saw mill in steady operation at Manawa, and came here to apply for a week's job with which to earn train fare to the west coast. He never left this village thereafter except for short visits.
He was employed by the Little Wolf River Lumber company here for many years, and when the first electric light and power plant was installed at Manawa. Mr. Peterson became its first operator on Dec. 5. 1902. He continued in that line of work the remainder of his life. Ole Peterson, was the first trouble shooter, operator, meter reader, lineman and wire man, and he had charge of the entire plant. From the time' it started in-1902 until the holdings were sold to the Wisconsin Power & Light company, in 1927 Mr. Peterson was the direct overseer.
His marriage to Miss Edith Jackson of Manawa took place here on Sept. 23. 1896. The widow survives, with seven children. Mrs. Frank Hurley. Green Bay: Mrs. C.W. Plowman, Baraboo; Mrs. George Krautkramer, Shawano: Chester, Los Angeles. Calif.; Philip, Menasha: Maurice, Manawa. and Mrs. E. J. Folmer, Chicago, Ill., : two sisters, Mrs. Worden Hanchett of Asotin.Wash., and Mrs. Ellen Smith of Superior: three brothers, John, Oscar and Harold of Merrillan. And 19 grandchildren. One son. Robert, died at Green Bay on Aug. 1. 1932.
Note: Born in Sweden to Peter Olson, Where as tradition was for the first born son to take fathers first name and add son to it. so Peter-son is Ole's last name was really born to Olson family.
Aged 64 years, 8 months, 13 days
Ole Peterson Rites to Be Conducted Monday
Manawa - Funeral services for Ole Peterson. 64, resident of Manawa for nearly half a century, will be conducted from the Sacred Heart church here at 8:30 Monday morning by the Rev. A. C. Dionne. Burial will take place in the local Catholic cemetery.
Mr. Peterson' died early Thursday morning at a Madison hospital after an illness of, several months. He had been taken to Madison the previous after-noon.
Born in Falen, Sweden. Sept. 13,1873. Mr. Peterson came to America with his parents when he was nine years old. The family settled on a farm near Merrillan.
When Mr.Peterson reached the age of 19 he heard of a saw mill in steady operation at Manawa, and came here to apply for a week's job with which to earn train fare to the west coast. He never left this village thereafter except for short visits.
He was employed by the Little Wolf River Lumber company here for many years, and when the first electric light and power plant was installed at Manawa. Mr. Peterson became its first operator on Dec. 5. 1902. He continued in that line of work the remainder of his life. Ole Peterson, was the first trouble shooter, operator, meter reader, lineman and wire man, and he had charge of the entire plant. From the time' it started in-1902 until the holdings were sold to the Wisconsin Power & Light company, in 1927 Mr. Peterson was the direct overseer.
His marriage to Miss Edith Jackson of Manawa took place here on Sept. 23. 1896. The widow survives, with seven children. Mrs. Frank Hurley. Green Bay: Mrs. C.W. Plowman, Baraboo; Mrs. George Krautkramer, Shawano: Chester, Los Angeles. Calif.; Philip, Menasha: Maurice, Manawa. and Mrs. E. J. Folmer, Chicago, Ill., : two sisters, Mrs. Worden Hanchett of Asotin.Wash., and Mrs. Ellen Smith of Superior: three brothers, John, Oscar and Harold of Merrillan. And 19 grandchildren. One son. Robert, died at Green Bay on Aug. 1. 1932.
Note: Born in Sweden to Peter Olson, Where as tradition was for the first born son to take fathers first name and add son to it. so Peter-son is Ole's last name was really born to Olson family.
Ole Peterson Rites to Be Conducted Monday
Manawa - Funeral services for Ole Peterson. 64, resident of Manawa for nearly half a century, will be conducted from the Sacred Heart church here at 8:30 Monday morning by the Rev. A. C. Dionne. Burial will take place in the local Catholic cemetery.
Mr. Peterson' died early Thursday morning at a Madison hospital after an illness of, several months. He had been taken to Madison the previous after-noon.
Born in Falen, Sweden. Sept. 13,1873. Mr. Peterson came to America with his parents when he was nine years old. The family settled on a farm near Merrillan.
When Mr.Peterson reached the age of 19 he heard of a saw mill in steady operation at Manawa, and came here to apply for a week's job with which to earn train fare to the west coast. He never left this village thereafter except for short visits.
He was employed by the Little Wolf River Lumber company here for many years, and when the first electric light and power plant was installed at Manawa. Mr. Peterson became its first operator on Dec. 5. 1902. He continued in that line of work the remainder of his life. Ole Peterson, was the first trouble shooter, operator, meter reader, lineman and wire man, and he had charge of the entire plant. From the time' it started in-1902 until the holdings were sold to the Wisconsin Power & Light company, in 1927 Mr. Peterson was the direct overseer.
His marriage to Miss Edith Jackson of Manawa took place here on Sept. 23. 1896. The widow survives, with seven children. Mrs. Frank Hurley. Green Bay: Mrs. C.W. Plowman, Baraboo; Mrs. George Krautkramer, Shawano: Chester, Los Angeles. Calif.; Philip, Menasha: Maurice, Manawa. and Mrs. E. J. Folmer, Chicago, Ill., : two sisters, Mrs. Worden Hanchett of Asotin.Wash., and Mrs. Ellen Smith of Superior: three brothers, John, Oscar and Harold of Merrillan. And 19 grandchildren. One son. Robert, died at Green Bay on Aug. 1. 1932.
Note: Born in Sweden to Peter Olson, Where as tradition was for the first born son to take fathers first name and add son to it. so Peter-son is Ole's last name was really born to Olson family.
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