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Anders Vilhelm Peterson.
Born 8 December 1845 in Ingelsby, Lerbäck (T).
Baptized 11 December 1845 in Lerbäck (T).
Died 14 June 1919 in Mellerud, Dalsland (O).
A.W.
Peterson grew up in Ingelsby, Lerbäck in Närke. He became a christan believer when he was
21 years old and studied at a mission school in Ahlsborg where he did very well. Later he was
to become one of the pioneers of the revival in Värmland and Dalsland. In the church register
you can find this remark: "He is never attending a service in the State Church. He uses a
separate communion - a sectarian." People thought of A.W. Peterson as a very original
preacher and around him and "Lundgren med lådan", who played and sang, there were
many people at their meetings. They brought a lot of people to a personal faith. In many parts
of Sweden A.W. Peterson was a well-known preacher and he even went abroad to Norway,
Denmark and USA. Peterson and his family lived for a long while in Bjurtjärn in Värmland, but
8/8 1894 they settled in Mellerud, Dalsland, where he died after being ill for a long period of
time in 1919.
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