Excerpt from the Illustrated History of Nebraska: A History of Nebraska from the ..., Volume 3, By Julius Sterling Morton, pages 514-516:

PETERS, RICHARD CALVIN, dealer in real estate, bonds, loans, etc., at Omaha, was born at Petersburg, Mich., April 29, 1862, named for his grandfather, Richard Peters, who was a large owner in the vicinity. Richard Peters was born in Delaware county, N. Y., about 1798. He went to Michigan about 1824, and died there in 1862. Before leaving New York he married Polly Wilcox, who bore him four children. George, one of these children, became a state senator in Michigan, and Charles, the first white child born in Summerfield township, Monroe county, was the father of Richard Calvin Peters. He was born in the year 1825, was a farmer all his life, and died in 1893. Richard Peters, the grandfather of R. C. Peters, was descended from a Welsh family of Quakers, who came to America during colonial days.

R. C. Peters' mother, Julia Ann Burnham, was born near Greenfield, Franklin county, Mass., in 1827, the daughter of Calvin Burham (born in Franklin county, Mass., near the town of Deerfield, in 1775, a school teacher and farmer) and Mary Bruce, who was born in the same locality and at about the same time as her husband, Calvin Burnham. She died in Deerfield, Mich., in 1870. One of the sons of Mary Bruce, an uncle of R. C. Peters, was A. C. Burnham, deceased, of Champaign, Ill. He was a pioneer in the farm loan business and founded the firms of Burnham, Tulleys & Co., of Council Bluffs, Ia., and Burnham, Trevett & Mattis, of Champaign, Ill., and Beatrice, Neb. During his life he gave the Julia F. Burnham hospital and the public library to the city of Champaign.

.... On June 9, 1887, he [Richard] was married to Maggie L. Reed of Monitcello, Ill., a daughter of Judge S. R. Reed of that city. They have four children: Charles Reed, a graduate of Amherst College, 1912; Jennie Burnham, a student of Smith College; Richard Bruce, and Katherine Margaret.

Left to right:
Margaret L. Peters (1868 - 1957)
Richard C. Peters (1862 - 1936)
Richard B. Peters (1898 - 1944)
Jane (Peters) Belcher (1891 - 1959)

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