(Charles) Gilbert Peterson Charles Gilbert Peterson (January 31, 1848 - October 3, 1918), was an American contractor from Lockport, New York.
The company executed such contracts as the waterworks of Toledo, Ohio and Grand Rapids, Michigan along with a reservoir in Washington, D.C.
[1] Peterson along with Sterling H. Bunnell, held a patent on the Furnace Charging Apparatus.
[2] On April 27, 1881, Peterson married Jennie Zimroda Gray Lapham in Syracuse, NY.
He is the grandfather of Charles Sterling Bunnell.