YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY MINNESOTA
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Submitted to the Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Name: LaNaye Hennen
Email: henfarms@clarkfield.ruralink.com
Date: 29 June 2000
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"A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose,published in 1914


BORRE PETERSON

Borre Peterson, deceased, was a homesteader of Norman township and one of
the first to settle on the site of Canby.  His home was in that city many
years, and he was one of the best known men of western Yellow Medicine
County.

Mr. Peterson was born in Norway November 26, 1839.  At the age of seventeen
years he came to America and settled at Spring Grove, Iowa.  In 1861 he
enlisted in the Twelfth Iowa Regiment of Volunteers and served under General
Grant at the battles of Forty Henry, Fort Donaldson and Shiloh.  At the last
named battle he was taken prisoner, and he was held for six months and
eleven days at Macon, Georgia.

After his release Mr. Peterson returned to his Iowa home and was married to
Gunhild Anderson.  He remained at home only a short time, re-enlisted, and
served until the close of the war.  Thereafter until the early seventies he
resided at Spring Grove.  Then, with his wife and two children, he came to
Yellow Medicine county.  He took a homestead near the present site of Canby
and continued to reside in Canby until the summer of 1907.  Then he moved to
Naples, South Dakota, where he died April 16, 1910.  His  first wife died in
1884, and a few years later he was married to Anna Olson.