Charles Gilbert Peterson


Charles Gilbert Peterson, was an American contractor from Lockport, New York. He was an associate in Peterson & Sons with his father, Gilbert Peterson and brother, Jesse Peterson. The company executed such contracts as the waterworks of Toledo, Ohio and Grand Rapids, Michigan along with a reservoir in Washington, D.C. He was Mayor of Lockport in 1896 - 1897. Peterson along with Sterling H. Bunnell, held a patent on the Furnace Charging Apparatus.
On April 27, 1881, Peterson married Jennie Zimroda Gray Lapham in Syracuse, NY. They had three children, Rebecca Lapham Peterson, Gilbert Peterson and Jennie Gray Peterson. He is the grandfather of Charles Sterling Bunnell.
He was a graduate of Cornell University.