Jesse Peterson (October 1, 1850 - October 22, 1921), was an American

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and politician from Lockport, New York. In 1886, Jesse Peterson, along with Henry G. Cordley, and Charles E. Folger, started the United Indurated Fibre Company. By 1893 the company was incorporated under New Jersey laws, with the factory and general office in Lockport. About 300 hands are employed in the manufacture of household articles from the indurated fibre, the basis of which is wood pulp. In addition to the United Indurated Fibre Company, Jesse Peterson was the President of the Buffalo Warehouse & Distributing Company, Owner of the Cascade Pulp Mills, Director and Vice President of the Lockport Water & Electric Company and an associate of Peterson & Sons. At one point, Jesse Peterson, and his wife Arabella A. Peterson, daughter of former Lockport mayor Albert Field Brown, moved into the Italianate mansion located at 414 Locust St. in Lockport. Arabella's obituary from 1929 states that “she had long been prominent in the social and musical circles of the city” and that funeral services were held at the home. Peterson was an influential Bourbon Democrat and in 1892 he was a

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in support of

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, the party faction's sole Presidential success. He served for a time as Police Commissioner and Railroad Commissioner before being nominated as

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of Lockport.McGuire, James K., and Martin W. Littleton. The Democratic Party of the State of New York: A History of the Origin, Growth, and Achievements of the Democratic Party of the State of New York, Including a History of Tammany Hall in Its Relation to State Politics. ew York United States History Co, 1905. Peterson was born in

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and attended

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in Buffalo. He was the son of Gilbert Peterson, brother of Charles Gilbert Peterson and the great-uncle of Charles Sterling Bunnell.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Peterson, Jesse 1850 births 1921 deaths 1892 United States presidential electors American manufacturing businesspeople Bryant and Stratton College alumni