Charles Gilbert Peterson (January 31, 1848 - October 3, 1918), was an American contractor from

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. He was an associate in Peterson & Sons with his father,

Gilbert Peterson Gilbert Peterson (August 5, 1824 - November 14, 1890), was an American contractor from Lockport, New York. He was the founder and President of Peterson & Sons, which he ran with his two sons, Charles Gilbert Peterson and Jesse Peterson. The com ...

and brother,

Jesse Peterson Jesse Peterson (October 1, 1850 – October 22, 1921), was an American industrialist 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. ...

. The company executed such contracts as the waterworks of

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and

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along with a reservoir in

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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

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. 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

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.Cornell University, David Kaser, Otto Kinkeldey, Louis E. Martin, Stephen A. McCarthy, J. Gormly Miller, and Alain Seznec. Cornell University Library Records. 1868.

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