Aaron E. Peterson
Prominent Monroe Township Resident Celebrates His Birthday Anniversary -- Aaron E. Peterson, with a number of his Grand Army and other friends, is celebrating today the sixty-fourth anniversary of his birth, at his fine new residence near Hazel Dell, in Monroe township. Mr. Peterson is of a prominent family, his grandfather, the late Col. Solomon Gladden, having been an officer in the war of 1812 and later a prominent citizen of Monroe township, where for many years he held offices of honor and trust. Mr. Peterson's wife is also of a noted family, her father having been the late Judge Taylor, of Ashland. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson are pleasantly situated, are prosperous, have a large farm and an elegant residence, being well equipped to royally entertain their friends. Mr. Peterson was a union soldier in the war of the rebellion, was a member of Company I, thirty-second O. V. V. I., a regiment that was through the most strenuous campaigns of the civil war. Of Mr. Peterson's comrades in this city to whom invitations were sent are: Capt. S. F. Bell, T. W. Ford, P.P. Ford, George Knofflock and A. J. Baughman. Also others in attendance from this city are Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hughes and Miss Sade E. Baughman. It is thought that the Thirty-second Ohio infantry - the regiment in which Comrade Peterson so faithfully served his country - lost more men than any other Ohio regiment. It entered the field Sept. 15, 1861, 950 men strong and during the war received more than 1,600 recruits, making a total of about 2,600 men, of which number only 555 remained to be mustered out with the regiment at the close of the war. The accompanying picture of Mr. Peterson is reproduced from a photograph taken when he was a young man.
From The Mansfield News, Friday, July 22, 1910, Page 8