Charles S. "Chas" Peterson (January 30, 1927 – May 10, 2017) was an American historian. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and a resident of Utah most of his life, he specialized in the history of his state and of the people of the LDS Church.[1][2]

Biography

Peterson was born in Snowflake, Arizona in 1927. Born into a Latter-day Saint family, he served in the U.S. Army (1945–46) and served on a church mission to Sweden (1947–49), where he worked with Ezra Taft Benson. Upon the completion of his mission, he studied at Brigham Young University, graduating with a BA in 1953, the year of his marriage to Elizabeth "Betty" Hayes. The couple had six children while Peterson continued his studies, earning an MA (BYU, 1958) and a PhD (Arizona State University, 1967).[1][2]

Peterson became a college-level teacher of Utah history, the director of the Utah State Historical Society, and the editor of the Society's Utah Historical Quarterly. He was the author of Utah: A Bicentennial History, a sociopolitical history of Utah published in 1977.[1] He died in St. George, Utah in 2017.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Peterson, John A. (2015). "Charles S. Peterson". byu.edu. Brigham Young University. Archived from the original on November 9, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Charles Peterson: 1927–2017". legacy.com. St. George News. May 12, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
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