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He was born on December 7, 1818 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of George and Jane (Evans) Peterson.
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He was born on December 7, 1818 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of George and Jane (Evans) Peterson.
Henry Peterson was largely self-educated.
He was compelled to go to work in a hardware store at the age of fourteen. He formed a partnership with Edmund Deacon for the publication of cheap manuals and reprints when he was twenty-one. For a short time he was connected editorially with Joseph C. Neal's Saturday Gazette, and in 1846 he succeeded George R. Graham as editor of the Saturday Evening Post.
In February 1848 Deacon & Peterson bought the Post from Samuel D. Patterson & Company and became sole owners and editors. In April 1873 Peterson sold his interest in this periodical to the Saturday Post Publishing Company, but he remained with it in an editorial capacity for another year.
Thereafter he devoted himself to the writing of poetry and fiction. He had already published Poems (1863), and The Modern Job (1869), a dramatic and philosophical poem of three thousand blank-verse lines with its setting in Pennsylvania. Pemberton (1873), a historical novel of the Revolution, was reprinted in 1887 and 1900. Faire-mount (1874) is a historico-philosophical poem in couplets. Helen; or, One Hundred Years Ago, a poetical drama, was produced in Philadelphia in 1876.
He died at his home in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
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On October 28, 1842, Peterson married Sarah Webb, of Wilmington, Delaware, a poet, who edited from 1864 to 1874 the Lady's Friend, a fashion magazine published by Deacon & Peterson and modeled upon Godey's Lady's Book.