PETERS, CHARLES H.

PETERS, HOWARD

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/30/2019 at 14:52:14

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

PETERS, CHARLES H., of the firm of Peters & Bernhard, proprietors of Potowonock Mills ; was born in Fort Madison Sept. 13, 1849; he grew up here and received his education at Fulton, Whiteside Co., Ill.; then entered Commercial College at Chicago, and graduated ; entered the wholesale drug house of Fuller & Fuller, in Chicago, and remained there three years; in 1870, he became connected with the mills, and he has the financial management of the business. He holds the office of Treasurer of the Construction Company for building the Fort Madison Narrow Gauge R. R. He married Miss Emma Howard, from Burlington, May 3, 1870 ; they have two children—Milton E., Florence M.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879