ELLIS R. PETERSON. Industry and natural ability are the leading powers in the agricultural as well as the commercial world, and in a new country the display of these talents is more manifest than in a more developed region. Richland county, North Dakota, has many who have made a success of the pursuit of agriculture by dint of their well-directed labor, and a prominent place among that class is accorded the gentleman whose name introduces these paragraphs. He makes his home on section 12 in Garfield township, and although a young man is the possessor of a fine estate.
Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden January 5, 1869, and was the fifth in a family of twelve children born to Andrew and Anna S. Peterson. The mother died in Garfield township in 1894. Our subject came to America with his parents in 1881 and the family settled in Richland county, where Mr. Peterson has made his home since. He is the possessor of one half-section of land in Garfield township, on which he has placed modern improvements and is surrounded by all the comforts of rural life.
Mr. Peterson is a member of the Lutheran church, being secretary and organist of the local congregation, and is a man who is respected wherever he is known. He has filled various local offices of trust and gained the confidence of the people among whom he resides. He is chairman of the township board of supervisors and as an interested worker for education is clerk of the school board. He has a prosperous future in North Dakota and his oneness of purpose in all public affairs has already gained him an enviable place in the minds of all.
Source: Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota 1900 Page 209