Came to Billings and worked for Yegen Brothers Bakery in 1884. Peter Peroe (sometimes spelled Peros) married Emilie Elizabeth Steingruber at Hebron, N. D., in 1893 (she was 14 years younger). Established his own bakery, which was destroyed in a large fire, and a Fruits and Confectionery business at 2603 Montana Avenue. President of the Billings Opera house in 1890s. He is knitting in this photo. Yellowstone County, Montana, in the world war, 1917-1918-1919 identifies him as 'Champion masculine Red Cross knitter.' (p 201) and he had 2427 hours of knitting (p 174). Peter Peroe died in May, 1944 - See Pioneer Billings Resident Dies, Billings Gazette, May 18, 1944. Survived in 1944 by son, Robert George Peroe, and daughter Mrs. Alfred (Jennie) Bartz. Lived at 311 North Twenty-seventh street. Emily alive in 1954. The Western Heritage Center has many photos of this family--but very few identifications.
Subject (TGM)
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County. Bakers. Knitters (Persons). Red Cross.
Rights Management
Billings Public Library is unaware of any copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the 1976 copyright act. All images in this collection may be used for educational, scholarly purposes and private study. We do request that a credit line be included with each item used. If you wish to publish or reproduce the material in any physical or digital form that exceeds that permitted by fair use or use them for any commercial purpose, including display or web page use, you must obtain prior written permission from Billings Public Library.
Contributors
Parmly Billings Library
Contributing Institution
Billings Public Library
Geographic Coverage
Billings (Mont.)
Digital Collection
Billings Public Library Historic Collection
Genre (AAT)
photographs
Type
Image;StillImage
Digitization Specifications
HP Scanner, unknown model, unknown scanning software; 60,373,288 Bytes file size for master TIF file; 4165 x 5379 dimension size for master TIF file; web-viewable images created from master TIF using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and CONTENTdm 6.0.
Date Digitized
2007-02-05
Language
eng
Relation
See-- Yellowstone County, Montana In the World War 1917-1918-1919 (p 201) and (p 174). See Pioneer Billings Resident Dies, Billings Gazette, May 18, 1944.
