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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          JEROME N. PETERS is a son of CHRISTIAN and SUSAN PETERS, and was
       born in Wayne county, Ohio, February 25, 1828. When he was three
       years old his parents moved to Ashland, Ohio, where they lived many
       years. CHRISTIAN PETERS died May 2, 1884. His widow is now living on
       the place owned by her son, JEROME. The subject of this sketch was
       married in Ashland county, November 15, 1849, to SARAH FRANSE. He
       followed farming thereuntil 1851, then came to the Hawkeye State
       and settled in Clayton county, where he owned and carried on a farm
       until October, 1869. In March of that year he had visited Cass
       county and bought three hundred and sixty acres of land in sections
       14 and 11, Bear Grove, a portion of which he broke. To this farm he
       removed his family, and is still residing thereon. His residence is
       on section 14.  Mr. and Mrs Peters are the parents of eight children
       — MARTIN W., now a resident of Custer county, Nebraska; DAVID A., of
       Lewis, WALTER F., of Bear Grove; ELIZA C., wife of GEORGE ALBEE, of
       Lane county, Oregon; MALINDA M., MELISSA A., GEORGE W. and CLARENCE
       R.

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