Hawthorne, Julian, Ed.  History of Washington the Evergreen State: 
From Early Dawn to Daylight.  Vol. 2.  New York: American 
Historical Publishing Co., 1893.  p. 669.

WOLD, PETER A., farmer and stockman, of Kittitas Valley, 
Wash., was born in Norway in 1835, the son of a farmer who died 
in 1857, leaving a family of six children, of whom Peter was the 
third.  He received his early education in his native land and learned 
his trade there.  In 1862 he emigrated to America, settled in 
Chicago, and went to work at shoemaking.  In 1867 he went to San 
Francisco and found employment there in one of the largest shoe 
establishments in that city.  Two years later he migrated to Seattle, 
where he went into business with his brother, but still sticking to his 
old trade for himself, meeting with considerable success.  Selling 
out, he engaged in hop-raising, then came to Kittitas, where he 
became a stockman.  In May, 1871, he took up land three and a half 
miles west of Ellensburg, where he now owns two hundred and 
twenty acres of excellent land, averaging thirty-five bushels to the 
acre.  He was married in King County, Wash., in 1870, to Miss 
Mary Bush, who was born in Oregon in 1855.  Three children were 
born to this union.  He was married a second time, March 2d, 1891, 
to Mrs. Sarah Bilgum, widow of Erick N. Bilgum, who died in 
Ellensburg in November, 1988.  Mr. Wold is a member of the 
Farmer's Alliance and Industrial Union, and is largely interested in 
the great irrigating ditch.  He is also a breeder of fine blooded stock.  
His experience in the pioneer days with the Indians was anything 
but agreeable.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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