John Bertram Peterson

[2] He received his episcopal consecration on November 10, 1927, from Cardinal William Henry O'Connell, with Bishops George Albert Guertin and John Gregory Murray serving as co-consecrators.

[1]In 1930, U.S. President Herbert Hoover appointed Peterson to a national commission to survey education in the United States.

[3] New Hampshire Governor John Winant attended the installation, along with 600 priests from New England and several hundred parishioners from St. Catherine of Genoa Parish in Massachusetts.

[1] In May 1933, Peterson settled a contentious labor strike in Manchester between the Amoskeag Company and its 7,400 unionized mill workers.

After canvassing many union members, Peterson went to the company management and successfully negotiated a 15 cent per hour wage increase, settling the strike.

[1] That same year, Pius XI appointed Peterson as an attendant to the papal throne and a county of the Vatican city state.

The diocese opened a USO center for servicemen and women in Manchester, and he urged parishioners to support the organization with donations.