Andrew Peterson, ex-consul and former president of the Western State Bank, died in his apartment in the Union League Club January 19.

Mr. Peterson was born in Kolding, Denmark, in 1829, and came to the United States in 1847. He opened a store in Watertown, Wisconsin, where he helped to organize the Chicago, Watertown & Northern Railroad, which later was merged with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.

In 1872 Mr. Peterson moved to Chicago, where he and George P. Bay started a bank. He was president of the bank until 1894. In this year he was made Danish Consul for Illinois and fifteen other states, a post he held four years. Mr. Peterson then became ill and retired. He was decorated with the order of Dannebrog.

Mrs. Peterson died two years ago. There were no children.