Sacramento County
Biographies
CHARLES JOHN
PETERSON
CHARLES JOHN PETERSON.--A general contractor who is ever ready to undertake anything feasible within his field, is Charles John Peterson, a native of Michigan now head-quartered at the Builders’ Exchange in Sacramento. He was born at Ludington, Mason County, on October 22, 1883, the son of Herman Julius and Bertha Peterson, his father being an expert cabinet-worker who is still living, although his devoted wife, our subject’s mother, is dead. Both parents have deserved well of their generation.
After attending the public schools of Michigan, Charles John Peterson learned the carpenter trade and followed it since he was fifteen years of age. In 1913, he came out to California and Sacramento, and he secured a good post as foreman with the Liberty Iron Works, and erected their buildings; and then he was in the employ of the U.S. Fibre Products Company, and put up their structures. Since the spring of 1922, he has been established for himself. He accepts the largest contracts, employing regularly eight or more men. The public have long since come to believe that whatever they may commit to the care of Charles Peterson, will be well done. Mr. Peterson is a Republican, but does his own thinking and voting.
In July, 1904, Mr. Peterson and Emma Clara Stockstad, of Minnesota, were made man and wife, the marriage ceremony occurring at Bismarck, N. D.; and now their family includes a daughter, Elvira, two sons, George and Harold, another daughter, Edna, and another son, the youngest born, Charles John Peterson, Jr. Our subject is a member of the Order of Vasa, and of the Master Builders’ Association; and is fond of fishing and hunting; and like his fellow Americans, native and adopted, in Sacramento County, he rejoices in the environment in which he luckily finds himself.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 917.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.