Archibald Peers
1836 - 1918 (82 years)-
Name Archibald Peers Birth 1836 Wallace Bay, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada 
Gender Male Reference Number 4660 Reference Number b514 Death 1918 Wallace Bay, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada Person ID I4660 peers Last Modified 19 Nov 2005
Father Ezekiel Peers, b. 1805, Wallace Bay, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 03 Dec 1873, Wallace, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 68 years) Mother Ellen MacDougal, b. 1816, Scotland, UK d. 03 Sep 1896, Wallace Bay, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 80 years) Marriage 24 Feb 1831 Wallace Bay, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada - Microfilm no: 15931; get copy.
MARR: SOUR @C24372@
Family ID F1736 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Mary Elizabeth Blair, b. Abt 1840, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 1882, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age ~ 42 years) Marriage Abt 1864 - MARR: SOUR @C13785@
Children 1. Arthur Woodgate Peers, b. Abt 1865 d. Yes, date unknown 2. Minnie Peers, b. Abt 1867 d. Yes, date unknown 3. Robert Archibald Peers, b. 1869, Wallace Bay, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown4. Helen Peers, b. 1871, Wallace Bay, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown5. Alice Fitch Peers, b. 1877, Wallace Bay, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknownFamily ID F1774 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 18 Jan 2017
Family 2 Rebecca Knowles Marriage Abt 1884 - MARR: SOUR @C13861@
Children 1. Mary Elizabeth Peers, b. 1885 d. Yes, date unknown 2. Paul Knowles Peers, b. 1887, Rush City, Chisago County, Minnesota, USA d. 1963, Rush City, Chisago County, Minnesota, USA (Age 76 years)Family ID F1775 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 18 Jan 2017
- Microfilm no: 15931; get copy.
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Notes - Was a telegrapher. Put in the first telegraph instrument o n the St. Pauland Duluth R. R. at Wyoming before the trac k was graded. He located asan agent at Rush City in a tent , on the bank of the brook, using a boxcar for an office . He erected the first frame house in Rock City.Purchase d a farm in 1874 on which he lived for 40 years. Was als o aReal Estate dealer. Is buried in the Swedish Luthern Ce metery in RockCity. (This was credited to the son Robert A rchibald Peers b5143 but Ibelieve this was Archibald Peer s (his father) as Robert was born in1869: Robert Archibal d would only have been 5 years old when hepurchased the fa rm.)
NAME: SOUR @C13469@
BIRT: SOUR @C13470@
DEAT: SOUR @C13471@
NOTE: SOUR @C23650@
- Was a telegrapher. Put in the first telegraph instrument o n the St. Pauland Duluth R. R. at Wyoming before the trac k was graded. He located asan agent at Rush City in a tent , on the bank of the brook, using a boxcar for an office . He erected the first frame house in Rock City.Purchase d a farm in 1874 on which he lived for 40 years. Was als o aReal Estate dealer. Is buried in the Swedish Luthern Ce metery in RockCity. (This was credited to the son Robert A rchibald Peers b5143 but Ibelieve this was Archibald Peer s (his father) as Robert was born in1869: Robert Archibal d would only have been 5 years old when hepurchased the fa rm.)
