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1. Title:   Wiard Elderton Family Tree
Author:   Laurence Overmire
Publication:   RootsWeb World Connect Project, © 2004-2019
Text:   Wiard Elderton Family Tree, by Laurence Overmire, RootsWeb World Connect Project, © 2004-2019

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a. Note:   N343 ATTORNEY, NEWSPAPER WRITER, POET
  AUTHOR OF “HISTORY OF FAYETTE CO. IN THE 40’s AND 50’s”
  OBITUARY OF T. D. PETERMAN
 "T. D. Peterman passed away at his home, 643 Franklin ave., March 29. He was a retired lawyer and came to California from Iowa in 1907, shortly after making this city his home. He was born in Indiana in 1850 and moved to Iowa at an early age. He was educated in Fayette county attending high school and the Upper Iowa University. He graduated in the law at the Iowa State University and practiced for many years in Iowa. he attained prominence as a newspaper writer and was the author of "Fayette County in the '40's and '50's". This work was the result of much historical research. In 1875 he was married to Jane C. Pangburn, who survives him. The funeral will take place from the parlors of Turner & Stevens, 95 North Raymond Ave., tomorrow after noon at 2'oclock."
  “In Appreciation
 In the passing of Thomas Draper Peterman, which took place in Pasadena, California, in March 1916, there was removed from life's activties a man well known to the people of Fayette, and Fayette county. Althought he had resided for some years on the coast, he was always pleased to call Fayette his home.
 He was born in Ripley county, Illinois, [s/b Indiana], August 15, 1851. In 1854 he removed with his parents to Smithfield township, Fayette county, Iowa, where he received his early education and grew to manhood, later teaching school in the vicinity.
 In September, 1875, he was united in marriage to Jane C. Pangburn, also of Smithfield township. To this union a daughter was born which died in infancy. In 1822 he graduated from the Law department of the Iowa State University, locating in Arlington, Fayette County, for the practice of his profession. Later he removed to Fayette where he resided until 1906, when failure of his wife's health caused him to seek a warmer climate. He selected a home in Pasadena, California, where he resided at the time of his death. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Upper Iowa university, resigning that position on his removal from the state. he also served as mayor of Fayette for a number of terms.
 As a man, Thomas Draper Peterman was endowed by nature with marked characteristics. He was impulsive, kindly and sympathetic. To the call of suffering and distress wherever, he always responded eagerly. Sympathy for the unfortunate was one of his strongest traits. Fully one quarter of the years of his life were saddened by the long continued illness of those most near and dear to him.
 Some of the people of Fayette may recall the loving care and devotion shown his aged mother during the trying years of her invalidism. No sacrifice seemed too great to this faithful son if it only even in a small way contributed to her comfort.
 Soon after the death of his mother his wife's health began to fail. Hoping that travel, change of scene and climate might stay the progress of what physicians pronounced an incurable malady, he sold his home in Fayette and other interests in Fayette County and removed to Pasadena, California. But there was no abatement of the symptoms which in a few years had rendered a strong healthy woman a helpless and hopeless invalid. Of this he said in a recent letter, "It is the saddest experience of my life to see her daily growing more helpless and I powerless to aid." And so for years he spent his life literally at her bedside endeavoring to mitigate her sufferings and cheer her desolate days. His qualities of steadfast devotion and self sacrifice were such as to cause the wonder and admiration of all his friends and neighbors.
 He was a writer of considerable ability of both prose and poetry, being a frequent contributor to various newspapers of the county and state. He was the author of a "History of Fayette County in the '40's and '50's" which appeared in the Argo several years ago and was considered a reliable and authentic contribution to the early history of the county.” --- Sara Pangburn Kime
  Sources:
 1) Greg Peterman Genealogy, 2005
 http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~greg/PRC/fam/fam00897.htm
 2) Obituary of T. D. Peterman, unknown Pasadena newspaper, courtesy of Greg Peterman
 3) Sara Pangburn Kime, Fayette Newspaper, April 19, 1916, courtesy of Greg Peterman


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