This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Petersen, Lamp Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qk.2ADI/1544.1673 Message Board Post: This information is from a Reunion newsletter from the Lamp side from September 6, 1936.: This reunion is to honor the memory of Peter Lamp and his wife Abel Kruse Lamp. ( It goes on to describe each of their children, etc.) " Peter the fourth child married Louise Petersen and got the last 160 acres that his father bought, They lived on this farm until 1897 when he sold it for $75.00 an acre and moved to Mapleton, Iowa where he had bought 640 acres at $44 an acre. Besides numerous farms he owned the Grain Elevator at Mapleton and operated it for many years, as well as organizing the First National Bank of Mapleton in 1915. He was the President until his death in 1925. They had three children, Theresa Lamp Schoenjahn, Harriet Lamp Wilson, and Henry Peter Lamp, who died when he was 16 years old." I hope some of this will help you out.