Brunk H. Peters 

Mr. Peters, the youngest son of Mr. Reinhold Peters and his wife Etta, nee Beinhoff, was born Dec. 9, 1886, in Peoria. He attended the Lutheran St. Paul’s School, the English Lee’s School and later Brown’s Business School. 4 years he was the clerk at the company Tyng and Hall in the grain exchange building. On August 1, 1906, he established with his older brother Theodore at the corner of Smith and Saratoga road in the grocery and food business they bought out from E. Furry. When the brothers took over the business, it was as a whole, completely down, however in a short time in which they took possession, already in such a way lifted itself that their income established a high of $1850 in the past month of October. With the grocery, flour and food are connected. Mr. Peters lives at his parents at 816 Hurlburt road.