CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. (CONT'D)
ALLAN PETERSON.
Allan Peterson was born in Shelby county, October 11, 1877, and attended the rural schools of Shelby county and a normal school at Atlantic. In 1898 he began teaching in the rural schools in Monroe township. He taught two years in district No. 2 and three winters in district No. 3, his home district. In 1900 he entered the Iowa State Teachers' College at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and graduated there in 1903. He was then elected superintendent of schools at Randolph, Iowa, where he remained for three vears He (36) came to Des Moines in the fall of 1906 to take charge of the department of physics at East Des Moines high school, to which he had been elected and which position he yet holds. This is one of the largest high schools in the state, with an enrollment which this year will be over one thousand two hundred, in what is undoubtedly the finest high school building in the state, costing six hundred thousand dollars, and thoroughly equipped in every department.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, October, 2023 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pg. 561-562.
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