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Petersen, Hjalmar, 1890-1968
Hjalmar Petersen was born on January 2, 1890, in Eskildstrup, Denmark, near Svendborg. He migrated to Chicago, Illinois, with his parents, Lauritz and Anna Petersen, in 1891. He was naturalized through his father's papers. Petersen spent his childhood on a farm in Lincoln County, Minnesota, and in the village of Tyler. His education consisted of grammar school, and what he often referred to as "the school of experience." At age 14 he took his first job, working for the Tyler Journal . He then moved on to other printing jobs in Minnesota and South Dakota. From 1908 to 1914 he worked for a large printing firm in Milwaukee.
In 1914 he moved to Askov, a Danish settlement in east-central Minnesota. Here, in September 1914, he founded the weekly newspaper the Askov American and was joined by his brother Svend in 1916. Hjalmar remained as editor of the Askov American for the rest of his life. Petersen developed the small paper until it claimed to have the largest circulation of any newspaper in the United States published in a community of Askov's size.
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Petersen, Alma, b. 1894.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65b2phk (person)
Alma Schmidt Petersen (1894- ) held a variety of executive positions in Chicago-area civic organizations in the mid-1900s. She was president of the Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association (1930-1931), director of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago (1931-1940), and chairman of the Health Agency Review Committee. A protege of Louise DeKoven Bowen, Petersen was invited to join the Board of Trustees of the Hull-House Association in 1943 and later served as its president (1945-1952) and Treasurer ...
