George Petersen in 1897.
George and Agnes Petersen's daughter Violet, about 1924 in Chicago.
Georg Christian Petersen was born on June 19, 1897 in Chicago. He spent his early youth with his family in Wisconsin, then in Illinois again after his father Hans' death and his mother Catherine's remarriage to Thomas Mikkelsen.
George grew up with his siblings Louis, Peter, Alfred, Marie Petersen and stepsister Florence Mikkelsen
on East 36th Street, where Thomas ran a car repair business. Around 1918 George married
Agnes Majoros, the sister of Annie Majoros (wife of George's older brother
Louis) and moved to Eggleston Drive where he worked as a cashier for the Studebaker
Corporation. 
He later owned (or co-owned
with his brother Clarence) his own business, a
retail gasoline station called Petersen's Garage, and by
1930 the family was living on Seely Street in their own home. Their elder daughter,
Violet, pictured at right, was born in 1919; baby Georgia
(above, with Agnes and George) followed in 1933.
After George's mother Catherine Mikkelsen died in 1944 most of her children gradually relocated to other states. George and family were no exception, finding their way to Northern California, where George and Agnes ran a laundromat. His brothers Alva (Alfred) and Clarence resettled in Southern California. George died in 1962 in Yolo County, Anges in the town of Auburn in Placer County.