Levi Petersen was born on December 26, 1885 on a farm near Litchville, North Dakota. He attended school at the Rosebud School and left that school after the eighth grade to attend the Caton Business College in Minneapolis. He graduated from Caton Business College in the spring of 1906.
Upon graduation, he was employed as an assistant bookkeeper by a Minneapolis firm for some time then was employed at Pollard's hardware store in the spring of 1907 for one year.
On Lincoln's birthday in 1908 he married Miss Ollie Hanson, also from the same community. To this union were born four children, two of them twins.
In 1919 the Levi Peters en family moved to Valley City where Levi was the bookkeeper for the firm of Embertson and Olson for several years. The family then moved to Long Beach, California.
Levi was active in Masonic circles in Litchville, Valley City and Long Beach. He also belonged to the Elks, the Santa Barbara Rotary Club and other like organizations.
Levi Teldon Petersen died in February of 1941 in Long Beach, California and is buried in Rose Hill Memorial Park, Whittler, California.
was buried at sea. In 1882 Halster came to North Dakota and filed claim on Section 22 in Spring Creek Twp. He went back to Minnesota to get his wife and family to live in North Dakota. In about 1885 it is believed he built a small lean-to on his claim of land and later added on to it to make a fair sized house. A grandson Elton Kjelland, now owns the place.
Three more children were born to this couple. One daughter, Esther (Mrs. Alfred Larson) died in 1912 of diphtheria, leaving a son, Alget Larson, who then made his home with his grandparents.
Halster Peterson was a thrifty man and owned 2200 acres of land, all in Spring Creek Twp.. He liked to walk and often walked many miles. He was a firm believer in the future of North Dakota. In the summer of 1912 he built a homestead on Section 15. He and his wife, a son, Ole and grandson, Alget, moved there to live. A son Emil and his wife stayed to make their home on the old homestead. When Ole married, Halster, his wife and. Alget, continued to live with Ole and his wife until the couple passed away. Halster died January 28, 1923 and Maria died the same winter on February 17th, just a few days apart. They were survived by two sons, Ole and Emil, and two daughters, Caroline (Mrs. Herman Swanson) and Annie (Mrs. Ben Kjelland). Thirty three grandchildren survive. All their children and six grandchildren have passed away.
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 194