Clarence Oscar Peterson

  Research Notes:

Clarence Oscar Peterson
- WW1 draft: b 2 May 1896 at Cokato, MN; lives at Milaca, MN; works at Minneaplos Machine shop; contact Edwin Peterson, Milaca, MN (dated, 6 May 1918)
- 1940 US Census, Clough Twp Morrison Co, MN; ED49-8; sheet 3B ** This is likely the WRONG PERSON

line: 68, Clarence Peterson, brother (head of household is Harry Peterson age 46 [1894] - married and a child); Clarence - age 43 [1897], single; same house in Ap 1935; farm work
- California Death Index: died 9 Jan 1976, Los Angeles; born 2 May 1897
- WW2 draft: b 2 May 1898, Cokato MN; address, 532 ¾ West 82nd; married to Ruth Mary (Peterson); emloyer, LA Police Dept [dated, 14 Feb 1942]
- brief mention of a "private Service" for Clarence Oscar Peterson by McMillian Mortuary; died 9 Jan 1976
[ Newspapers.com; The Los Angeles Times issue, 18 Jan 1976 page 108]
and then, The Los Angeles Times issue, 10 Jan 1976, page 20
Clarence Oscar Peterson, survived by his wife, Ruth; brothers Paul, George, Egnar, and Roy; sister Esther Swanson; private services were held.


2. Sometime after the record from the 1940 US Census, he moved to Los Angeles; he had married and worked with the LA Police Dept for a few years. In 1942 he would have been about 46 years old even though the WW2 record records his age as 43 . I haven't found a marriage record .

3 US BIRLS file has birth at 2 May 1897; enlisted on 22 Jan 1918 and released, 24 Dec 1918
with SSN 558666362; same as US Social Security Death Index last residence as Los Angeles

4. Nothing on findagrave [17 Sep 2020]

Clarence married Ruth Mary.