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Title: Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941 Subjects: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mormons Publisher: Salt Lake City : The Andrew Jenson History Co. Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Text Appearing Before Image: George F. Richards, onwhich occasion he was set apart to pre-side over the Lakeside Ward. Bro.Peterson had previously served ascounselor in a Deacons Quorum, super-intendent of Sunday School, scoutmaster and ward teacher. He grad-uated from the grammar school atLakeside and from the Union HighSchool at Snowflake, Arizona, andwhile in the latter school acted aspresident of the student class in hissophomore year, as standard bearerin his junior year and as the classpresident again in his senior year.He also was graduated from theL. D. S. Seminary in Snowflake in BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 159 1927. He attended the Utah StateAgricultural College for a year, butdue to ill health could not continue.On Oct. 21, 1930, he married LuciliaSmith in the Arizona Temple. Threechildren have been born of this union,namely Elwood Russell, Dwain Smithand Marguerite. PETERSON, Hugo Daniel Edward, missionary, editor and ti-anslator, wasborn Aug. 14, 18G0, in the city ofVisby, Isle of Gotland, Sweden, the

Text Appearing After Image: son of Isak Peterson and Anna SophiaGardstedt. Being born of goodly par-ents, he was baptized May 11, 1873,ordained a Priest April 27, 1880, anElder Aug. 31, 1881, by Niels Wil-helmsen, a Seventy Feb. 23, 1885, bySeymour B. Young, and a High Priestby John H. Anderson, Nov. 23, 1928.In the summer of 1879 he was calledby Pres. Niels Wilhelmsen to Copen-hagen, Denmai-k, the headquarters ofthe Scandinavian Mission, to becometranslator and associate editor of Nordstjarnan. He held that posi-tion from February, 1881, to June,1883, when he, with his brother AntonP. Peterson, emigrated to Utah andentered the parental home, in Scipio,Utah, where the parents had settledthe previous year. After spending hisfiist years in Utah laboring with hisfather and brother in the buildingtrade, in farm work, and as clerk toBishop Thomas Yates in the ScipioCo-op store. Brother Peterson went toSalt Lake City, where he engaged inhis trade as a printer. After workingfor some time on Svenska Harolden,and the Sal

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