Robert Evans Peterson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American publisher and physician
Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1812
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 30-Oct-1894
Profession: physician, publisher
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Robert Evans Peterson
- Robert Evans Peterson (November 12, 1812 – October 30, 1894) was an American book publisher and author.
- He also studied law and medicine, but never took up either profession. R.
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- Peterson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to George and Jane (Evans) Peterson.
- His family included several publishers and editors: his brother Henry Peterson edited the Saturday Evening Post for twenty years, and his cousin Charles J.
- Peterson was an owner of the Post and founder of Peterson's Magazine.Peterson received a commercial education and engaged in the hardware business until 1834, when he married Hannah Mary Bouvier, the daughter of Judge John Bouvier.
- He then studied law with his father-in-law and assisted him in editing his law works.
- He was admitted to the bar in 1843, and in order to absolve the debt of his clients, Daniels & Smith, booksellers, purchased their business, conducting it as R.
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- Peterson & Co.
- On the death of John Bouvier in 1851 he established with George W.
- Childs the publishing house of Childs & Peterson, which became involved in 1857–58.
- Peterson then retired from the publishing and bookselling business and took up the study of medicine.
- He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1863, but did not practice, devoting his life to study.
- He presented Judge Bouvier's law library to the University of Pennsylvania.
- After his wife died in 1870, he was married, in 1872, to Blanche Gottschalk, sister of Louis M.
- Gottschalk, and after her death in 1879, thirdly, to her sister Clara.
- He published Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Bouvier's Institutes of American Law; edited: Familiar Science, a Guide to Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar; Dr.
- Kane's Arctic Explorations; Brazil and Brazilians, and numerous text books, and was the author of: The Roman Catholic Church not the Only True Religion (1891).
- He died in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
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