Petersen, Alma Schmidt, 1894-1989.

Chicago woman graduate of Mt. Vernon Seminary and traveler.

Alma Schmidt was the daughter of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt and Emma (Seipp) Schmidt. She wrote to her parents while on tours of American and European spas with her grandmother (Catherine Orb Seipp), and assorted aunts and uncles, and include her descriptions of social life in Germany in the autumn of 1914. Alma attended Mt. Vernon Seminary (now Mt. Vernon Campus of George Washington University) in Washington, D.C.; before she died in 1989, she was the oldest surviving graduate of that college. In 1919 she married Dr. William F. Petersen, and that year they took a honeymoon trip up through Banff, Vancouver, Tacoma, Portland, and San Francisco. Alma and William F. Petersen had three children: Edward (born ca. 1922), Conrad (born ca. 1924), and William (born ca. 1927). Alma Schmidt Petersen died in 1989.