Theodor Peterson (12 June 1839 – 9 January 1888) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician. He is known for his development of the family company M. Peterson & Søn, and also served one term in the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( ; ) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional represe ...

Personal life

He was born in 1839 as a son of Peter Christian Peterson and Hedevig Jacoba Sandberg.Genealogy
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Momme Peterson Momme Peterson (28 March 1771 – 4 March 1835) was a Danish-Norwegian businessperson and politician. He is best known for founding the company M. Peterson & Søn. Biography Peterson was born at Lindholm in the Slesvig. He was the son of Pet ...

, who in 1801 had founded the company M. Peterson & Søn. In July 1862 he married Sara Margrethe Caroline Thorne, a sister of Johan Henrik Paasche Thorne and daughter of Johan Frederik Thorne.

Career

The family company M. Peterson & Søn had been expanded from its 1801 origins as a general store, to a larger company with a spinning mill, timber trade and regular shipping. Theodor Peterson discontinued the shipping operations, instead choosing to venture into the

pulp and paper industry The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood, specifically pulpwood, as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard, and other cellulose-based products. Manufacturing process In the manufacturing process, pulp is intr ...

. Having bought Moss Iron Works together with Johan Henrik Paasche Thorne and Georg Wankel in 1875, he became the sole proprietor in 1878 as he took over Thorne and Wankel's shares in exchange of his company's ships. Then, he used the site of the iron works to develop new industry. The factory

Moss Cellulosefabrik Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hornw ...

was built in November 1882, and in 1883 production of cellulose sulfate commenced there. After his death, this business field was further developed, first by his wife Sara but mainly under the leadership of their son Hans Blom Peterson. He was the managing director from 1901 to 1954, and also served as mayor of Moss.Hans Blom Peterson
– Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) In politics, Peterson was elected to the

in 1871, representing the constituency of ''Moss og Drøbak''. He only served one term.Momme Peterson
– Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) In addition, he was a

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peterson, Theodor 1839 births 1888 deaths Norwegian businesspeople Members of the Storting Østfold politicians People from Moss, Norway Norwegian people of Danish descent