Show 4 i HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE S rEi ANOTHER PIONEER DIES Niels Morton Peterson a Leading Factor in the Settlement of Sevier County I Richfield Jan IT Niels Morten Peter Peterson Peterson PeterSon son the pioneer of living pioneers of Richfield died led Wednesday night He had been bothered some for years with atom stomach stomach ach trouble tr uble but it never nen r became he of a serious nature until last lat Sunday unda when It become acute As ts late hUe as Tuesday u however he was able abl to get set around some and visited his daughter across the street It was waa wa one of nf his longest lonest and an last requests that when he died his body bod be Kept as ag long as it could be and the date of the funeral has not yet et been set seL Mr Peterson Pc terso was as one of the very first company that settled in Richfield in isa 1863 He and his companions were driven back into Sanpete county by b the th Indians but returned In lb i and he has resided here ever since He was a leading factor in inthe inthe inthe the early f rl settlement of Richfield and to his judgment and what knowledge he had of or surveying using an instrument of his own design d and make is due the success SS attending the digging of the first canal nanal which brought water from the Sevier river to this settlement In later Years vear he be lived a more retired life The deceased was born in Aalborg f t Denmark Nov 10 1819 He came to I Utah In 1862 settling first at Battle I Creek then moving to Ephraim and later I to Richfield He was married in his na native naI native tive country but of a family of ten chil chU children I dren dran only one survives him His wife died a number n of years S ago He remar remarried e I nod ried fn in 1873 8 and J with his second se n wife if leaves a family of eight children The I late James M 31 I Peterson P terson founder Of the bank and the mercantile house which bears beRrs his name was wasa a son by his former I wife |