Image created between 1890-1900
- Birth Date
- 12 November 1819
- Death Date
- 14 January 1903
- Gender
- Male
Niels Morten Peterson
He served as a Captin of Ten. He came on the ship, Franklin in 1862 as Niels Mortensen with his wife, Mette, and children: Morten, Maren K., Jens, and Anders. He is known as Niels Morten Peterson in FamilySearch/FamilyTree. Maren, Jens and Anders all die at sea.
In some records he is listed as Lynge, which is the name of the farm he is from in Denmark.
Christian A. Madsen Company (1862)
- Age at Departure: 42
Sources
- 1870 Utah Census.
- 1880 Utah Census.
- 1900 Utah Census.
- "Another Pioneer Dies," Salt Lake Herald, 19 Jan. 1903, 3.
- European Mission emigration records, Scandinavian Mission, 1852-1920.
- Find a Grave (Website)
- Jens C. A. Weibye, reminiscences and journal, circa 1862 in Orson B. West typescript collection, circa 1982-1987, 281-333.
- "Niels Morton Peterson Dead," Ogden Standard Examiner , 17 Jan. 1903, 7.
- Parish Register of Albaek, Hjorring, Denmark.
- United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926.
- Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.
- Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.