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Marion County Biographies
Dr. Henry B. Peterson |
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Contributed By: Sandi Gorin |
Source:
Kentucky Genealogy and
Biography, Volume IV,
Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886.
Marion Co.
HENRY B. PETERSON, M.D., was
born October 3, 1838, and is a
son of William and
Celia A. (Buckler)
Peterson, to whom eight sons
and two daughters were born, all
of whom lived to be grown,
except one son and one daughter.
William
Peterson was born in
September, 1811; he was a
substantial farmer and owned a
number of negroes; died April 7,
1886. He was a son of
Garrett
Peterson, who was born in
Washington County, Ky.; was
a captain in the war of 1812,
served under Gen. Harrison; was
a farmer and slave-holder, and
died of cholera in
Marion County, in 1833. He
had married Nancy Smock; was a
son of Henry
Peterson. His father also
married a Miss Smock, was born
in
Pennsylvania, was of Holland
descent, and was one of the
first settlers of
Marion County. Mrs. Celia A.
(Buckler)
Peterson was born in
Marion County, and a
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth
(Tolbert)
Buckler, who were born in
Virginia and
Maryland respectively, and
came to
Marion County, Ky., as early
as 1801 and settled near
Loretto. Henry
Buckler died in 1854, aged
seventy-five years. Dr. Henry B.
Peterson was born near Chicago,
Marion Co., Ky., and
received a liberal education. At
the age of twenty he commenced
teaching and continued till
after twenty-two in the common
schools. At the age of
twenty-four he turned his entire
attention to the study of
medicine; graduated from
Jefferson Medical
College,
Philadelphia, in the spring
of 1866 and located where he now
resides, in Raywick, meeting
with success. He is a member of
the
Marion County Medical
Association, and
Beech Fork Association, and
also a member of the board of
health. He married Mary E. Beall
in April 1867. She is a daughter
of Thomas J. and Sarah Jane (Stiles)
Beall, natives of Marion and
Nelson Counties respectively.
Mr. Beall was a farmer and
distiller and a large
slave-holder. In 1874 he moved
to Jackson County,
Kas. He was a son of
Washington and Mary (Carter)
Beall, who came from
Maryland in an early day.
Washington
Beall was a substantial
farmer and distiller. He built
and owned one of the first mills
on Salt
Lick
Creek, and in that part of
the country was a large land
owner. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson
have had born to them three
children:
Stiles T., Wesley W., and
Anna B., all members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
South, as are their parents. The
Doctor is a member of the F. &
A. M., in politics is a
consistent Democrat, and cast
his first vote for Douglas, in
1860.
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