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HENRY FRANKLIN PETERS
HENRY FRANKLIN PETERS was
born in Maine, April 19, 1830, a son of Lemuel and Betsy (Wood) Peters. The
parents were married in 1813, and had nine sons and three daughters, of whom
all but three of the sons are living. The father died in 1870, aged eighty-two,
and the mother followed in 1871, aged about seventy-six. Grandfather John
Peters, one of the first settlers at Blue Hill, Maine, a native of
Massachusetts, was a surveyor and farmer, familiarly called, “Old Squire
Peters.” He lived to be over eighty. He was the son of John Peters, a resident
of Andover, Massachusetts, and of the same family as the historic Hugh Peters
of Connecticut, believed to be among the first families that moved to New
England. Grandmother Mary (Dyer) Peters was also quite old at her death.
Grandfather Joseph Wood was all of eighty when he died, and great-grandfather
Wood, also named Joseph, was the actual first settler at Blue Hill, Maine,
coming from Beverly, Massachusetts. He lived to be over ninety.
H. F. Peters, the subject of this sketch,
was married May 15, 1859, to Miss Sarah Peters Wood, born April 17, 1836,
daughter of Johnson and Hannah (Peters) Wood, the parents of six boys and three
girls, of whom five and two respectively are living in 1889. Mr. and Mrs.
Peters left New York for California by the Panama route, five days after their
marriage, arriving in San Francisco June 14. They proceeded two days later to
Columbia, where Mr. Peters engaged in mining, and worked in that line for ten
years, net result, briefly stated,--a living. In 1868 he came down to the
plains and settled on ninety-six acres of his present ranch, now embracing 264 acres,
and has been farming ever since, his chief marketable product being wheat,
average yield being about eighteen bushels to the acre.
Mr. and Mrs. Peters are the parents of two
children, viz: Clarence Henry, born September 4, 1860, and married April 4,
1883, to Miss Grace McKenzie, born in this State November 1, 1863, by whom he
has one child,--Arthur Clarence, born May 9, 1885. The father was educated in
the high and normal schools at San Jose, where his mother resided from 1876 to
1882, mainly for his better education. He is engaged in clerking and farming.
The other child of Mr. and Mrs. Peters is
Miss Lizzie Augusta, born November 30, 1869, who finished her education in
Stockton high school, from which she was graduated in June, 1888.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 302-303. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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