Peterson, John C. 1886-1967

PETERSON, GLASGOW

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 6/19/2011 at 16:57:12

John Peterson was longtime market reporter
John C. Peterson, 81, Sioux City, former owner-operator of the Le Mars Globe-Post for a brief time after high school graduation, died Tuesday afternoon at his home.
He had been livestock market reporter for the Sioux City Journal for nearly 50 years.
FUNERAL SERVICES will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Morningside Presbyterian church. Rev. Myron Brower, assisted by Rev. R. N. Miller is secretary of the Presbytery.
Burial will be in the Remsen cemetery under direction of the W. Harry Christy funeral home of Morningside.
Mr. Peterson began his Journal service as a stockyards market reporter in May 1918. He served as livestock market editor until January 1966 when he retired from active work because of illness.
Mr. Peterson once wrote in describing his craft, “The market reporter must have a working knowledge of these conditions and factors affecting prices, and frequently he must even cut his reports to represent a near-average of widely differing opinions.”
MR. PETERSON WAS born March 30, 1886, at Remsen. He was graduated in 1913 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism.
He was Big 10 wrestler at Michigan and played varsity football in 1910,11 and 12 on teams coached by Fielding H. Yost.
He owned and operated the Globe-Post for a brief time after graduation before he joined the army in world war 1. He resigned a commission as a first lieutenant in the army and soon joined the staff of the Sioux City Journal.
He married Ella Glasgow Jan. 9, 1914, in Sioux City. They observed their 50th wedding anniversary Jan. 9. 1964.
He was a member of Morningside Presbyterian church, Morningside Kiwanis club, Morningside Masonic lodge 615, Sioux City Consistory, the Knife and Fork club, Morningside Order of the Eastern Star 502, the Sioux City Newspaper guild, and Monahan post 64 of the American Legion.
He was a member of the Last Man’s club of the former Co. K in Le Mars. There are 14 surviving members now. Mr. Peterson attended most of the dinner meetings held each year Nov. 11 in Le Mars.
Survivors are his wife; four sons, John Jr. of Hawthorne, James of Remsen, Farley of Le Mars, Dr. Norman C. of Santa Monica, Calif., 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. – Le Mars Globe-Post, April 13, 1967, pages 1 and 4.
Note from funeral bulletin: Interment Remsen City Cemetery, Remsen, Iowa