Background
He was an associate in Peterson & Sons with his father, Gilbert Peterson and brother, Jesse Peterson.
He was an associate in Peterson & Sons with his father, Gilbert Peterson and brother, Jesse Peterson.
Cornell University.
The company executed such contracts as the waterworks of Toledo, Ohio and Grand Rapids, Michigan along with a reservoir in Washington, District of Columbia He was Mayor of Lockport in 1896 - 1897. Peterson along with Sterling H. Bunnell, held a patent on the Furnace Charging Apparatus. On April 27, 1881, Peterson married Jennie Zimroda Gray Lapham in Syracuse, New New York They had three children, Rebecca Lapham Peterson, (Charles) Gilbert Peterson and Jennie Gray Peterson.
He is the grandfather of Charles Sterling Bunnell.
He was a graduate of Cornell University.