YUBA COUNTY
Biographies
CHARLES M. PETERSON
Step by step, Charles M. Peterson has advanced since his removal to the West; and for the past fifteen years he has occupied a creditable position as a horticulturist of the Oswald district of Sutter County, his home place consisting of ten acres developed to an orchard of cling peaches. He was born near Kalmar, Sweden, January 25, 1858, the youngest of four children born to Andreas and Maria Charlotte (Palmquist) Peterson, both natives of Sweden. He received his education in the local schools of his native land, and at the age of fourteen years went to sea. For four years he sailed on Norwegian vessels, and then for four years more sailed on German, Danish and English vessels, on four oceans. He left the sea, in Australian waters, and went to Tasmania, or Van Diemen’s Land, where he spent seven years in the silver mines.
In 1889, Mr. Peterson returned to his old home in Sweden for a visit; and in the fall of the same year he left his native land for America, coming direct to San Francisco, and from there to Marysville. He soon found work with Knight’s Steamboat Company, where he worked for a few years; and then he entered the employ of the Knight Electric Company in Marysville, which was later absorbed by the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and was thus occupied for twenty-five years. During these years he purchased his present ranch, which he has improved with a comfortable modern residence and suitable farm buildings, and on which he has set out a cling-peach orchard. In 1913 he resigned his position with the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, to devote all of his time to the care of his orchard.
In the city of Oakland occurred the marriage of Mr. Peterson, which united him with Miss Hilda Marie Anderson, also a native of Sweden. They are the parents of one son, Edward, who is associated with his father on the home ranch. Mrs. Peterson is a member of the Fraternal Aid. She belongs to the Methodist Church and to the Ladies’ Aid, and is a member of the Bogue Wednesday Club. Mr. Peterson is a member of Barry Center of the Sutter County Farm Bureau. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters and the Fraternal Aid. He is very much of an optimist, has great faith in the future growth and development of Sutter County, and rejoices that he had the good fortune to cast in his lot here.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 695
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