Robert Glenn Peterson - The Students of Lincoln School, New London

This photograph (along with the captured caption) was published in the 1975 Centennial edition of the New London Journal.

Robert Glenn Peterson is the fourth boy from the left in the back row of this group shot of fifth and sixth grade students from Lincoln School, New London, Iowa. The photograph was taken in 1910. Glenn, as he was known, was the son of Florence [Lee] and J. E. Peterson. He grew up in New London, Iowa, and moved with his mother and family to Los Angeles in 1917 after the death of his father. Lincoln School was situated in the town park of New London, the only building that has ever been in that square, as it was originally donated to the town by Abraham Dover, New London's founder, with the stipulation no building could be put there (his widow decreed a school was not against his wishes. A photograph of Lincoln School can be seen here.

The caption below this photograph reads:

MANY PEOPLE NAMED in this biographical section are pictured as children in this 1910 photograph of the fifth and sixth grades of New London's Lincoln School. At left is Superintendent I. L. Guernsey and at right is Edna Birtton, teacher. Front row, left to right: Alice Hemmings, June Mathews, Dee Elsome, Edna Bishop, Vada Strack, Hazel Strongquist, Maxine Moore, Myrtle Dietz. Second row: Eleanor Brenneman, Faye Biesen, Thora Courtney, Fern McKasson, Myrtle Linkin, Grace Smith, Laura Clawson, (standing) Maude McDonald, Mary Willey. Third row: Vera Shipley, Neva Morrow, Hattie Hanson, Fern DeSpain, Wilna Lyman, Minnie Judd, Viola Pike, Unidentified boy, Russell Lewis, Roy Mathews. Fourth row: Hollis Norton, Forest Britton, Kenneth Dameron, a Wilson twin, Brian Cunningham, Harold Hayes, Kenneth Cook. Back row: Lyman Crabbe, Max Harsenclever, Leslie Pike, Glenn Peterson, Verdon Strack, Stanley Harper, James Hayes, Walter Brown, Clifford Johnson, Mervin Dameron, a Wilson twin, Eddie Codner, Glen Lyman.

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