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Andrew Petersen and Karen Marie Johansen, engagement or wedding photo.

Year: 1889 • Collection: Petersen

Andrew, born in 1867 to Peter Hansen Petersen and Elise Momsen, was the younger brother of Helene Petersen, Peter Edlef (Alfred), Peter Hansen, Catharina Petersen and a twin of Ludwig (Louis) Petersen. Helene remained in Schleswig but all her siblings emigrated to Nebraska in 1878. Andrew and Karen Marie married in 1889 in York, Nebraska, lived briefly in Illinois, and settled in Kenosha, Wisconsin where they had six children. Andrew died in 1918. Karen Marie's second marriage was to Christian Feldschau. She and three of her children with Andrew eventually resettled to Northern California where she died in 1949.

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