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The Muskegon Chronicle
Thursday, 24 December, 1942

         Together for 58 Years During Life
          C. L. PETERSON, Wife Joined in Death
          
         Father of Four Sons Now in Dairy Trade,
          Was Pioneer in Business in Chicago, Here.
          
         CHARLES L. PETERSON, 86 years old, founder of
       the Sanitary Dairy company and one of the oldest
       active dairy men in the United States, died at
       2 p.m. Wednesday, at his home, as funeral servies
       for his wife, FLORENCE WEICHMANN PETERSON, sharer
       of his successes and setbacks in life for 58 years
       were being held.
       
         The veteran dairyman, attended by a nurse at
       his home, 191 E. Larch avenue, had been ill for
       several months, and quietly joined his partner
       for more than a half century, while his four
       sons and the couple's friends, were gathered
       together at the Clock chapel to pay respect to
       MRS. PETERSON.
       
         Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m.
       Saturday at Clock chapel for MR. PETERSON, and
       then a double funeral service will be held at
       the Rosehill Cemetery church in Chicago, at 2
       p.m. Monday, followed by a joint burial at
       Rosehill.
       
         Born in Sweden.
         Born at Gothenburg, Sweden, Sept. 26, 1856,
       MR. PETERSON came to the United States when he
       was nine years old. His mother had died two days
       before the family left Sweden, and the father, 
       MR. PETERSON, and a brother and sister settled
       in Chicago. The father went to New Orleans a
       short time later where he died of malaria,
       leaving the PETERSON children, orphans in a
       strange land, to make their own way.
       
         MR. PETERSON became interested early in the
       dairy business and was the first distributor in
       Chicago to pasturize milk. This new method of
       protection for milk was slow to be adopted at
       first, but MR. PETERSON was the forerunner of
       other dealers in the Middle West who later
       adopted the practice.
       
         The PETERSON family came to Muskegon in 1918.
       MR. PETERSON organized the Sanitary Dairy in
       1920 and sold out his interests in 1928. His
       four sons, who were interested with him in the
       dairy business, then branched out with the help
       and advice of MR. PETERSON.
       
         HOWARD C., CHARLES L. and CLARENCE A. PETERSON
       are operators of the Saginaw Dairy and the Bay
       City Dairy companies. BENJAMIN R. PETERSON, the
       other son, remained in Muskegon to start the
       Green Acres Dairy Company.
       
         Celebrate in Bay City
         MR. and MRS. PETERSON celebrated their golden
       wedding anniversary in July of 1934. The golden
       wedding dinner took place at the Wenonah hotel
       in Bay City, where they were joined by their four
       sons and their wives, 10 grandchildren and one
       great-grandchild.
       
         MR. and MRS. PETERSON were members of the 
       Jackson avenue Congregational church. He was a
       member of Logan Square lodge, A.F. and M. in
       Chicago, and was a 32nd degree Mason and a
       Shriner.
       
         Surviving are the four sons, BENJAMIN of
       Muskegon, HOWARD and CLARENCE of Saginaw and
       CHARLES, JR., of Bay City; a brother, MARTIN
       PETERSON and a sister, MRS. AMANDA KRAMER,
       both of Chicago.
       
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