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In Memoriam, 
ANDREW PETERSON, 
WACONIA, MINN. 
DIED MARCH 31, 1898, AGED 79 YEARS. 
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The subject of this brief sketch was a native of Sweden, from 
which country he emigrated to the United States in 1850, at the age 
of 32 years, being born Oct. 20, 1818. The first five years in this 
country he spent in Burlington, Ia.,and in 1855 he came to Minne- 
sota and located a mile southeast of Waconia Lake, and three miles 
from Waconia, in Carver County, and here he remained until the 
time of his death. Mr. Peterson had been ailing for some time, and 
the end was not unexpected and found him prepared. 
He left a wife, the partner of forty years, and five sons and three 
daughters. 
His early experience was not without the trials and privations 
incident to the life of a pioneer, but he met them with that spirit of 
sturdy determination that always overcomes the most difficult 
undertaking,and by his frugality,industry and integrity surrounded 
himself with all the comforts of life. 
He was not only a most prosperous farmer, but asa horticulturist 
was well known and esteemed throughout the state. He enjoyed 
the confidence and esteem of his neighbors to a marked degree as 
well as that of all who knew him. 
Mr. Peterson’s name appears first on the rolls of our society 
in the year 1884. The extraordinary value of his services in 
developing our pomology was early recognized, and in 1888 he 
was made an honorary life member, a distinction altogether 
unsought by him and fairly earned by this pioneer fruit grower 
of the northwest. Of late years Mr. Peterson’s advancing 
age has interfered with his attendance at our annual gath- 
erings, but his sympathies have been with us,and his fruit has 
_ often adorned our tables. The valuable work inaugurated by 
the departed will undoubtedly be carried forward by his sons, 
as not alone their interest in horticulture but the commercial 
value of his orchards at their present stage will prompt the 
