Redigerer Peter Tork (avsnitt)

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Peter Tork var sønn av Virginia Hope (født Straus) og Halsten John Thorkelson, professor i sosialøkonomi. Peters farfar Halsten Joseph Thorkelson 1875–1953 var av norsk avstamning; hans far var fra Vespestad i Finnås, Hordaland og hans mor fra Eggen i Tylldal, Hedemark. Peters mor var halvt jødisk og halvt irsk.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/09/30/archives/marriage-announcement-2-no-title.html | work=The New York Times | title=Marriage Announcement 2 – No Title | date=30. september 1940}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author= Robert E. Kohler |work= Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900–1945 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yAJxfeez5YwC&pg=PA205&dq=halston+Thorkelson&cd=2 |chapter= 8 |title= Developing American Science : Policies and Projects |pages= 204–207 |publisher= The University of Chicago Press |year= 1991 |isbn= 0-226-45060-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MWSB&p_theme=mwsb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB829FC48985680&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | first=Nick | last=Carter | date=23. august 1996 | title=Maritime Days sails back to port Seafaring fest carries a cargo of music, food and nautical pastimes | accessdate=2019-02-23 | archivedate=2013-10-06 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006213125/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MWSB&p_theme=mwsb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB829FC48985680&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | url-status=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Belle Straus Weil |date= 3. april 1964 |url= http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/o/w/John-Paul--Lowens/FILE/0001text.txt |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131007042837/http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/o/w/John-Paul--Lowens/FILE/0001text.txt |archivedate= 7. oktober 2013 |df= mdy-all }} {{Kilde www |url=http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/o/w/John-Paul--Lowens/FILE/0001text.txt |tittel=Arkivert kopi |besøksdato=2019-02-23 |arkiv-dato=2013-10-07 |arkiv-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007042837/http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/o/w/John-Paul--Lowens/FILE/0001text.txt |url-status=yes }}</ref>

Etter avsluttet [[High School]] i [[Storrs (Connecticut)|Storrs]] i Connecticut, gikk han en stund på [[Carleton College]] i [[Minnesota]], men flyttet til [[New York City]] før han ble ferdig.<ref name=":0">{{Kilde avis |tittel=Peter Tork, Court Jester of the Monkees, Is Dead at 77 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/obituaries/peter-tork-dead.html |avis=The New York Times |dato=2019-02-21 |besøksdato=2019-02-22 |issn=0362-4331 |språk=en-US |fornavn=Anita |etternavn=Gates}}</ref> I New York opptrådte han som folkemusiker i [[Greenwich Village]].<ref name=":0" />
[[File:Peter Tork 1966 (cropped).JPG|thumb|Peter Tork, 1966]]