Nan peterson biography of abraham
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A BYU Treasure
By Richard H. Cracroft, ’63
A new biography of Hugh W. Nibley aptly defines the scholar-disciple.
LET’S admit it: BYU alumni are very possessive about Hugh Winder Nibley. He is our academic treasure, our spiritual-intellectual man for all seasons, our scholar-disciple. We Cougars don’t preface our pronouncements with the self-effacing cliché “I’m no rocket scientist, but . . .” We mutter, instead, “I’m no Hugh Nibley, but . . .”
Hugh Nibley, the venerable scholar-Saint (who turned 93 in March 2003) is a BYU institution, a Latter-day Saint legend. Any alumnus worth his or her class ring can tell at least one or two favorite Hugh Nibley stories. And some of them, as Boyd Jay Petersen, ’88, explains in his introduction to Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life (Salt Lake City, Utah: Greg Kofford Books, 2002; 480 pp.; $32.95), might even have some basis in truth! In this long-awaited biography, Petersen, wh
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Abraham Peterson UEL (1741 - bef. 1824)
AbrahamPetersonUEL aka Pietersen
Son of Nicklaes Peterson II UE and Catarina (Meyer) Peterson
Brother of Annatje (Peterson) Anderson[half], Paul Peterson[half], Nicholas Peterson III UE[half], Christopher Peterson UE[half], Katharine (Peterson) Woodcock[half] and Maritje (Peterson) McMasters[half]
Husband of Mary (Unknown) Peterson — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DescendantsFather of Nicholas Peterson UE, Katerina Peterson, Annatje Peterson, Margaret (Peterson) Dafoe, Caroline Peterson, Peter Peterson and Sophia (Peterson) Williams
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Abraham Peterson was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Proven
Date: Undated
Biography
Abraham Peterson was born 27 July 1741 nära Tappan, New York, and baptized 23 August 1741 in Tappan,
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Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War
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