The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-04
DR. PETERSON PASSES AWAY
 - Beloved Alabama Educa- tor Is Dead. END COMES AT MONTEvALLo
 ---e----- Many Years at Head of Girls
 School. ssnerea From Disease .aa Feresd to nsssr. from werk--Heay shipped to Grsenssers
 fer Interment.
END COMES AT MONTEyALLo

monfevalfo. March 3.--(Speciai. l--i1r. rrancis M Peterson, former fresiaent Of the Alabama Girls Industriai school.. and one of the leading ministers anu s,T,,casora of Alabama, died at his res- laenea here this morning at e:3o o'clock. 4,he end came after a long illness anu
 In t,,e summer of 1906 when pr. Pe- feraon was at his greatest usefulness, svhen me institution of which he was the head was at It's highest point ol success. he was suddenly strichsn wn ,,sn illness. At that time. when his lie work was reaching it's greatest sue eesa. khs stroke came and the pnysi- clans whom he consulted shook Lner hnaar There was but a small chance Of permanent recovery. He dropped Ina work which had become the deyo- fssN Of his fife; he laid aside the sasAs In aStch he had enwrappeo nlmssn anu which ks so loved. At an age .vn. st %.Ssi ns be ahould have been at the neisns 2. is poyArs and when greater years nhnxssEl have stretched before hina, ne 3ala nside the duties to which he had ransnarafed himself and sought the gmnll chance that was held out to nIm for recovery He went West ana spent sawAral months in Colorado m an enoEf to recover his health.
 Haa Cardiac Trouble.
 while there in this effort to restore himself to his future usefulness ana eflcieney he sustained an adoltiohai blow ig, the death of beloved daugh- ter. He discovered. however. that ms illness was cardiac rather than tuper- cuiar. but it was none the less serious for that. He was never restored to health.
 He came back to his family and loved ones lr Alabama. continuing the strug- nie against disease. He bought home is Montevailo, among the scenes ne loved 60 well and there today the long and hoDeless struggae was ended.
 pr. Peterson was the son of ka- nous West Alabama physician. or the elaer. fhe strong and gentle physician, ft was said that he left the impress of his life and influence upon the town of Greensbor0, as but few If any man has done. Dr. Peterson was born in greensboro about fifty years ago. He was a strong and gentle youth, whose early fife was characterized by deep piety. He was early destined for the rnlnistry. Another brother. too. entered inc ministry. He Is Rev. John A. Pe- terson. leading member of the Ala hama Conference of the Methodist EniscoDal Church, and Presiding Elder of the DothaH District.
 Francis M. Peterson attended the Southern University and n that lnsLi-
 
 schoIasttc attainments, a deep piety ana . nature that drew all men to him. 1Ia enjoyed the love and confidence of the students of the University to a rare degree and largely because of this he was. upon graduation, made a member of the faculty of the univer-
 This connection continued for a long term of years. It was broken only when at the behest of the Alabama Conference he served as pastor of the Methodist Church at Greensboro or as Presiding Elder of the Greensboro Cir- cult
 while q professor at Greensboro he was regarded as one of the most val uable assets of that institution. To a rare degree he enjoyed the frank love and esteem of the students.
 The splendid work of pr. Peterson at Greensboro was done quietly and surprised than he was himself when, without any solicitation on his part, he was called to become the head of the Alabama Girls Industrial School at MontevalIo in 1899. He took up the burdens of the new of1ce with the same cheerfulness and devotion to duty that characterized his life. There were some difficulties to be encountered at the beginning of his service at MontevaIio, but these were surmount- ed and the trustees who had of their own accord called him from Greens boro, never failed to felicitate them selves on the wisdom they had shown Bn their choice.
 Work at MOntevaII0.
 The Alabama Girls Industrial School grew to be the most popular State in- stitution in Alabama. Under the management of pr. Peterson. the insti- tuition attracted so many students that Fk n m n "a