Percy O. Peterson and Mary Evelyn Johnson

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Husband Percy O. Peterson ^{1 2}

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           Born: 24 May 1876 - near Pleasant Unity, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: Noah G. Peterson (      -Aft 1906) 3 4
         Mother: Rachel Smith (      -      ) 3 4

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       Marriage: 10 Oct 1901 4

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Wife Mary Evelyn Johnson ^{4 5}

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            AKA: Evalyn Johnson 3
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         Father: William Lockery Johnson (1851-      ) 6 7
         Mother: Catherine "Kate" Hysong (Abt 1850-      ) 5 7

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1 F Esther Elizabeth Peterson ^{8 9}

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2 M William Orlando Peterson ^{8 9}

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3 M Vaun Gillette Peterson ⁹

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4 F Edna Catherine Peterson ³

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            AKA: Cynthia Peterson 5
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5 F Rachel Peterson ³

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General Notes: Husband - Percy O. Peterson

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He was reared on a farm and received his primary education in the public schools of the neighborhood. This was supplemented by a course at the California State Normal school at California, Pennsylvania, graduating in the class of 1900; the Bliss Commercial College, from which he was graduated; the Zanerian Art College, of Columbus, Ohio. He had, however, taught public school for five years in Westmoreland County prior to attending the State Normal. In 1902 he began work as a teacher in a business college at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and in the autumn of 1903 established the Peterson Business College at Scottdale, and although there were two old established institutions within a radius of some fourteen miles, the school prospered and the first class graduated in June, 1904, comprising forty-five finished pupils. The school gave a complete and thorough business training in all its various branches, but they made a specialty of penmanship, bookkeeping, shorthand and typewriting, but the other branches relating to a business education received consideration.
His family were members of the Reformed church, in which Mr. Peterson was deacon and superintendent of the Sabbath school.
He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

He was county supervisor of writing in a number of schools in Westmoreland, Indiana and Fayette counties.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 163.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 749, 1159.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 750.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 164.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1159.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1158.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 344.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 165.

9 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 750, 1159.