Name Charles Peterson Political party Democratic Party Religion Dutch Reform Church | Home town Lockport, New York Parents Gilbert Peterson Occupation Contractor Spouse Gray Lapham | |
Children Rebecca Lapham Peterson (Charles) Gilbert PetersonJennie Gray Peterson Died October 3, 1918, Lockport, New York, United States Grandparents Rebecca Babcock Peterson, Garret Cornelisen Peterson | ||
Charles Gilbert Peterson (January 31, 1848 - October 3, 1918), was an American contractor from Lockport, New York. He was an associate in Peterson & Sons with his father, Gilbert Peterson and brother, Jesse Peterson. The company executed such contracts as the waterworks of Toledo, Ohio and Grand Rapids, Michigan along with a reservoir in Washington, D.C. He was Mayor of Lockport in 1896 - 1897. Peterson along with Sterling H. Bunnell, held a patent on the Furnace Charging Apparatus.
On April 27, 1881, Peterson married Jennie Zimroda Gray Lapham in Syracuse, NY. They had three children, Rebecca Lapham Peterson, (Charles) Gilbert Peterson and Jennie Gray Peterson. He is the grandfather of Charles Sterling Bunnell.
He was a graduate of Cornell University.