RememberingAlfred Peterson The adventure of reading obituaries of Polk County people as collected by PCHS leader Phil Nyberg is worth reporting. Alfred Peterson, at age 7, accompanied his parents on a sailing ship from Sweden to New Sweden, Iowa, a trip that lasted nearly seven weeks. Here are some of the highlights: “At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the Civil War in Army Company C , fou...
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