Charles Gilbert Peterson

As contractor, 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 and 1897.^[2] Peterson along with Sterling H. Bunnell, held a patent on the Furnace Charging Apparatus.^[3]

On April 27, 1881, Peterson married Jennie Zimroda Gray Lapham in Syracuse, New York. They had three children, Rebecca Lapham Peterson, (Charles) Gilbert Peterson and Jennie Gray Peterson. He is the grandfather of banker Charles Sterling Bunnell.^{[citation needed]}