From the Rock Island Argus and Moline Dispatch, May 3, 1927:
Andrew Peterson, assistant superintendent of streets in Moline for 35 years, died this morning at the Moline public hospital of heart disease. He was 67 years old.
Mr. Peterson had served under nine street superintendents and six mayors during his long life as a public servant. He came to Moline in August 1892, the year Moline's first paving was being laid on Third Avenue.
When Mr. Peterson came to Moline, the city barns were located where the Central fire station now stands in the business district. Later they stood at Fifth avenue and Fourteenth Street. When the new barns were built at Thirteenth Avenue and Eighteenth Street in 1921, Mr. Peterson was furnished with a room, in which he had lived practically every hour of his life since that time. He was on duty 24 hours a day and hardly a night passed but what he was called out. Policemen would call him about fallen trees, sunken pavements or any dangerous projections, and Mr. Peterson would place warning lights at the hazardous places.
He remembered the days when heavy rains always washed down enough dirt on Fifteenth Street to make several days' work with plows and scrapers. He recalled the time water rushed down Nineteenth Street and a skiff came floating down also. He never found the owner of the skiff.
Board Walks then in Use.
Mr. Peterson had seen the laying of miles and miles of sidewalks in Moline. When he first joined the street department, there were three or four blocks of tile walks, but the rest were made of boards, many of them so loose that citizens frequently tripped on them. There were only a few business houses on Third Avenue, then the main business thoroughfare.
G. Ed Ericsson, superintendent of streets, for whom Mr. Peterson had worked for four years, was high in his praise of his assistant. Mr. Peterson, despite his many years of unceasing work, was little known.
Born in Sweden
Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden on Oct. 10, 1859. He came to America forty-three years ago. Forty years ago he married Ida Christina Johnson in Burlington, Ia. Five years after his marriage, he moved to Moline where he had since resided and had been assistant superintendent of streets during the entire time of his residence here.
Surviving him are the widow, one son, A. Harry of Moline, one daughter, Mrs. Sylvia A. Irwin of Albuquerque, N.M., one granddaughter, two sisters, Mrs. Louise Johnson of Moline and Mrs. Victor Carlson of Davenport Ia., and a brother, Albert of Galesburg, Ill.
One daughter, Mrs. Mildred A. Jacobs of Albuquerque, N.M. preceded him in death.
The body has been removed to Esterdahl chapel pending completion of funeral arrangements.
From the Moline Dispatch, May 4, 1927:
Funeral services for Andrew J. Peterson, assistant superintendent of streets in Moline, who resided at 1214 Seventeenth street, will be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon in Esterdahl chapel. The Rev. W.A. Steinkraus, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Interment will be in the family lot in Riverside cemetery.
Andrew Peterson, assistant superintendent of streets in Moline for 35 years, died this morning at the Moline public hospital of heart disease. He was 67 years old.
Mr. Peterson had served under nine street superintendents and six mayors during his long life as a public servant. He came to Moline in August 1892, the year Moline's first paving was being laid on Third Avenue.
When Mr. Peterson came to Moline, the city barns were located where the Central fire station now stands in the business district. Later they stood at Fifth avenue and Fourteenth Street. When the new barns were built at Thirteenth Avenue and Eighteenth Street in 1921, Mr. Peterson was furnished with a room, in which he had lived practically every hour of his life since that time. He was on duty 24 hours a day and hardly a night passed but what he was called out. Policemen would call him about fallen trees, sunken pavements or any dangerous projections, and Mr. Peterson would place warning lights at the hazardous places.
He remembered the days when heavy rains always washed down enough dirt on Fifteenth Street to make several days' work with plows and scrapers. He recalled the time water rushed down Nineteenth Street and a skiff came floating down also. He never found the owner of the skiff.
Board Walks then in Use.
Mr. Peterson had seen the laying of miles and miles of sidewalks in Moline. When he first joined the street department, there were three or four blocks of tile walks, but the rest were made of boards, many of them so loose that citizens frequently tripped on them. There were only a few business houses on Third Avenue, then the main business thoroughfare.
G. Ed Ericsson, superintendent of streets, for whom Mr. Peterson had worked for four years, was high in his praise of his assistant. Mr. Peterson, despite his many years of unceasing work, was little known.
Born in Sweden
Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden on Oct. 10, 1859. He came to America forty-three years ago. Forty years ago he married Ida Christina Johnson in Burlington, Ia. Five years after his marriage, he moved to Moline where he had since resided and had been assistant superintendent of streets during the entire time of his residence here.
Surviving him are the widow, one son, A. Harry of Moline, one daughter, Mrs. Sylvia A. Irwin of Albuquerque, N.M., one granddaughter, two sisters, Mrs. Louise Johnson of Moline and Mrs. Victor Carlson of Davenport Ia., and a brother, Albert of Galesburg, Ill.
One daughter, Mrs. Mildred A. Jacobs of Albuquerque, N.M. preceded him in death.
The body has been removed to Esterdahl chapel pending completion of funeral arrangements.
From the Moline Dispatch, May 4, 1927:
Funeral services for Andrew J. Peterson, assistant superintendent of streets in Moline, who resided at 1214 Seventeenth street, will be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon in Esterdahl chapel. The Rev. W.A. Steinkraus, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Interment will be in the family lot in Riverside cemetery.
From the Rock Island Argus and Moline Dispatch, May 3, 1927:
Andrew Peterson, assistant superintendent of streets in Moline for 35 years, died this morning at the Moline public hospital of heart disease. He was 67 years old.
Mr. Peterson had served under nine street superintendents and six mayors during his long life as a public servant. He came to Moline in August 1892, the year Moline's first paving was being laid on Third Avenue.
When Mr. Peterson came to Moline, the city barns were located where the Central fire station now stands in the business district. Later they stood at Fifth avenue and Fourteenth Street. When the new barns were built at Thirteenth Avenue and Eighteenth Street in 1921, Mr. Peterson was furnished with a room, in which he had lived practically every hour of his life since that time. He was on duty 24 hours a day and hardly a night passed but what he was called out. Policemen would call him about fallen trees, sunken pavements or any dangerous projections, and Mr. Peterson would place warning lights at the hazardous places.
He remembered the days when heavy rains always washed down enough dirt on Fifteenth Street to make several days' work with plows and scrapers. He recalled the time water rushed down Nineteenth Street and a skiff came floating down also. He never found the owner of the skiff.
Board Walks then in Use.
Mr. Peterson had seen the laying of miles and miles of sidewalks in Moline. When he first joined the street department, there were three or four blocks of tile walks, but the rest were made of boards, many of them so loose that citizens frequently tripped on them. There were only a few business houses on Third Avenue, then the main business thoroughfare.
G. Ed Ericsson, superintendent of streets, for whom Mr. Peterson had worked for four years, was high in his praise of his assistant. Mr. Peterson, despite his many years of unceasing work, was little known.
Born in Sweden
Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden on Oct. 10, 1859. He came to America forty-three years ago. Forty years ago he married Ida Christina Johnson in Burlington, Ia. Five years after his marriage, he moved to Moline where he had since resided and had been assistant superintendent of streets during the entire time of his residence here.
Surviving him are the widow, one son, A. Harry of Moline, one daughter, Mrs. Sylvia A. Irwin of Albuquerque, N.M., one granddaughter, two sisters, Mrs. Louise Johnson of Moline and Mrs. Victor Carlson of Davenport Ia., and a brother, Albert of Galesburg, Ill.
One daughter, Mrs. Mildred A. Jacobs of Albuquerque, N.M. preceded him in death.
The body has been removed to Esterdahl chapel pending completion of funeral arrangements.
From the Moline Dispatch, May 4, 1927:
Funeral services for Andrew J. Peterson, assistant superintendent of streets in Moline, who resided at 1214 Seventeenth street, will be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon in Esterdahl chapel. The Rev. W.A. Steinkraus, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Interment will be in the family lot in Riverside cemetery.
Andrew Peterson, assistant superintendent of streets in Moline for 35 years, died this morning at the Moline public hospital of heart disease. He was 67 years old.
Mr. Peterson had served under nine street superintendents and six mayors during his long life as a public servant. He came to Moline in August 1892, the year Moline's first paving was being laid on Third Avenue.
When Mr. Peterson came to Moline, the city barns were located where the Central fire station now stands in the business district. Later they stood at Fifth avenue and Fourteenth Street. When the new barns were built at Thirteenth Avenue and Eighteenth Street in 1921, Mr. Peterson was furnished with a room, in which he had lived practically every hour of his life since that time. He was on duty 24 hours a day and hardly a night passed but what he was called out. Policemen would call him about fallen trees, sunken pavements or any dangerous projections, and Mr. Peterson would place warning lights at the hazardous places.
He remembered the days when heavy rains always washed down enough dirt on Fifteenth Street to make several days' work with plows and scrapers. He recalled the time water rushed down Nineteenth Street and a skiff came floating down also. He never found the owner of the skiff.
Board Walks then in Use.
Mr. Peterson had seen the laying of miles and miles of sidewalks in Moline. When he first joined the street department, there were three or four blocks of tile walks, but the rest were made of boards, many of them so loose that citizens frequently tripped on them. There were only a few business houses on Third Avenue, then the main business thoroughfare.
G. Ed Ericsson, superintendent of streets, for whom Mr. Peterson had worked for four years, was high in his praise of his assistant. Mr. Peterson, despite his many years of unceasing work, was little known.
Born in Sweden
Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden on Oct. 10, 1859. He came to America forty-three years ago. Forty years ago he married Ida Christina Johnson in Burlington, Ia. Five years after his marriage, he moved to Moline where he had since resided and had been assistant superintendent of streets during the entire time of his residence here.
Surviving him are the widow, one son, A. Harry of Moline, one daughter, Mrs. Sylvia A. Irwin of Albuquerque, N.M., one granddaughter, two sisters, Mrs. Louise Johnson of Moline and Mrs. Victor Carlson of Davenport Ia., and a brother, Albert of Galesburg, Ill.
One daughter, Mrs. Mildred A. Jacobs of Albuquerque, N.M. preceded him in death.
The body has been removed to Esterdahl chapel pending completion of funeral arrangements.
From the Moline Dispatch, May 4, 1927:
Funeral services for Andrew J. Peterson, assistant superintendent of streets in Moline, who resided at 1214 Seventeenth street, will be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon in Esterdahl chapel. The Rev. W.A. Steinkraus, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Interment will be in the family lot in Riverside cemetery.
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