Walgren, Rev. August

WALGREN, PETERSON, HILLERY

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 9/23/2006 at 21:43:56

“Fulton’s History of Jefferson County, Iowa,” Pub. 1912, Vol. 2, page 103.

Rev. WALGREN was born in Sweden, Sept 11 1827, son of Peter and Christine (WALGREN) PETERSON. The father died on his way to Iowa in 1849. He was a tailor by trade and also owned and cultivated a farm. Following his demise his widow came with her children to the new world, reaching Burlington, Iowa in 1850. There were four sons and a daughter in the family and all that they had left when they arrived at Burlington was ten dollars in cash. Of the children August was the eldest and the others were: John, who died in California; Andrew, who served for 90 days in the First Iowa Infantry during the Civil War and is now living in Burlington; Louis P., who enlisted in the Seventh Iowa Cavalry and afterward served for about two years in a Nebraska regiment, becoming subsequent to the war a resident of Texas, where his death occurred, and Mrs. Caroline HILLERY, who died in Jefferson County. Rev. August WALGREN was a young man of about 23 years when he came with his mother and the younger members of the family to the new world..... There were so many PETERSONS living in the county that after his arrival in the United States he changed his name to WALGREN. The first work that he did was to chop wood at fifty cents per cord.....

See also: WALGREN sketch, p. 355, "Portrait & Biographical Album of Jefferson & Van Buren Counties," pub. 1890.

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