Peter B. Olsen (April 11, 1848 – July 3, 1926) was an American newspaper editor and politician.
Biography Olsen was born in Christiana, Norway on April 11, 1848. He emigrated to the United States in 1872.
He was a printer by trade and became the literary editor for the Skandinaven in Chicago, Illinois.
From 1899 to 1903, he served as a Republican representative in the Illinois House of Representatives. From 1900 to 1906, he served as the Clerk of Cook County, Illinois.
Olsen was a close associate of fellow Chicago politician Henry L. Hertz.Illinois Blue Book 1901-Official Directory of the Forty-Second Illinois General Assembly, 1901, Biographical Sketch of Peter B. Olsen, p. 41
Olsen died at a hospital in Chicago, Illinois on July 3, 1926.
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Related reading Larson, Laurence M. (1937) Skandinaven, Professor Anderson, and the Yankee School (Northfield, MN: The Changing West and Other Essays, pages 116–146) Øverland, Orm (1996) The Western Home - A Literary History of Norwegian America (Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association)