Peck, James H – Peet, Dudley
Peck, James H
lawyer, jurist, was born in Tennessee. He was made judge of the United States district court for Missouri. He died May 1, 1837, in St.
Charles, Mo.
Peck, Jesse Truesdell
bishop, author, was born April 4, 1811, in Middlefield, N. Y. He was a bishop in the methodist church; and the author of The Central Idea of Christianity; The True Woman; What Must I Do to be Saved?; and The Great Republic. He died May 17, 1883, in Syracuse, N. Y.
Peck, John Edwin
lawyer, was born Aug. 14, 1868, in Blacksburg, Va.
He received a liberal education, and finished at the West Virginia university. He has attained success as a lawyer of Logan, W. Va.; and has been prosecuting attorney of his county.
Peck, John James
soldier, was born Jan. 4, 1821, in Manlius, N. Y. During 1859-61 he was president of the board of education of Syracuse, N. Y. In 1861 he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers; and served with distinction throughout the civil war. He died April 21, 1878, in Syracuse, N. Y.
Peck, Lucius B
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1799, in Waterbury, Vt. He served in the Vermont state legislature; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1851. From 1853 to 1857 he was United States attorney for Vermont, and subsequently president of the Vermont and Canada railroad. He died in December, 1866, in Lowell, Mass.
Peck, Luther C
lawyer, congressman. He settled at Nunda, N. Y., in the practice of law, in which he attained eminence. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1841. He died Feb. 5, 1876, in Nunda, N. Y.
Peck, Luther Wesley
clergyman, poet, was born in 1825, in Wyoming valley, Pa. He has published The Golden Age, a poem; and other works.
Peck, Martin H
journalist, writer, was born July 26, 1870, in Pekin, Minn.
His poems and humorous sketches of country life which were at first published in the local papers were widely read and copied. He is the editor and owner of Peck's Sun of Barnesville, Minn. He also has a large farm in Wilkins county, and is very prominent in public affairs.
Peck, Samuel Minturn
physician, poet, was born in 1854, in Alabama.
He is a popular poet and physician of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and the author of Cap and Bells; Rings and Love Knots; Rhymes and Roses; and Fair Women of To-Day.
Peck, Theodore Safford
soldier, was born March 22, 1843, in Burlington, Vt. He served through the civil war; and for gallant and meritorious services received the rank of brigadiergeneral.
Peck, William Dandridge
naturalist, educator, author, was born May 8, 1763, in Boston, Mass. He was made professor of his specialty in Harvard, which chair he held from 1805 till 1822.
He published a catalogue of American and Foreign Plants; and several articles in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical society, which include The Description of the Atherine; History of the Slug-Worm; and Method of Taking Impressions of Vegetable Leaves by Means of Smoke. He also published an account of a sea-serpent in the Memoirs of the American Academy. He died Oct. 3, 1822, in Cambridge, Mass.
Peck, William Farley
journalist, author, was born Feb. 4, 1840, in Rochester, N. Y. He was connected with the press of Rochester, N. Y., for several years, and is the author of Semi-Centennial History of Rochester.
Peck, William Guy
soldier, educator, author, was born Oct. 16, 1820, in Litchfield, Conn. He was a soldier and mathematician, professor in Columbia college from 1857; and the author of Elementary Mechanics; and Popular Astronomy. He died in 1892.
Peck, William Henry
educator, author, was born Sept. 30, 1830, in Augusta, Ga. He is an educator of Georgia and a prolific writer of sensational novels. Among them are The McDonalds, or the Ashes of Southern Homes; The Confederate Flag of the Ocean; and The Brother's Vengeance.
Peckham, Rufus W
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1809, in Rensselaerville, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855; and in 1859 was elected judge of the supreme court. He died Nov. 22, 1873, at sea.
Peckham, Rufus Wheeler
associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, was born Nov. 8, 1838, in Albany, N. Y. In 1868 he was elected district attorney of Albany county; was subsequently corporation counsel of Albany city; and in 1883 was elected a justice of the supreme court of the state. While serving as such he was elected in 1886 an associate judge of the court of appeals of New York state, and while occupying a seat on that bench he was, in December, 1895, appointed by President Cleveland an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States.
Peckham, Stephen Farnum
chemist, was born March 26, 1839, near Providence, R. I. During the civil war he served as hospital steward; and was later in charge of the chemical department of the United States army laboratory in Philadelphia. He subsequently attained national reputation as a noted chemist.
Peckham, Wheeler Hazard
lawyer, was born Jan. 1, 1833, in Albany, N. Y. He was appointed district attorney of New York in 1884, which office he resigned in the same year. For many years he has practiced law in New York city.
Pedder, James
agriculturist, journalist, author, was born July 29, 1775, in England. He was an agricultural writer who came to America in 1832, and settled in Philadelphia as a sugar manufacturer.
From 1844 to 1859 he edited The Boston Cultivator. He was the author of The Farmer's Land Measure; The Yellow Shoestrings; and Frank. He died Aug. 30, 1859, in Roxbury, Mass.
Peddie, Thomas B
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He located at Newark, N. J., and engaged in manufacturing. He was elected to the state legislature in 1863 and 1864; was mayor of Newark from 1865 to 1868; and was president of the board of trade of that city in 1873. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-fifth congress.
PEEBLES, MRS. MARY LOUISE [PAR- MELEE], author, was born Dec. 10, 1833, in Lansingburg, N. Y. She is a writer of religious juvenile tales and other works, among them being The Little Captain; Helps Over Hard Places; The Good Fight; Where Honor Leads; A Question of Honor, a story; The Magnet Stones; and The Two Blizzards.
Peed, Henry A
journalist, state. senator, was born Nov. 9, 1846, in Plymouth, Ind. In 1872 he was elected by his party to represent his district in the Indiana state legislature, serving at both the special and regular sessions during the term. He was also a member of the committee on ways and means. In 1874 he was elected to the senate from his district, consisting of the counties of Martin, Dubois, and Orange, and served four years. At the session of 1875 he was an active member of the judiciary committee, and in 1877 was appointed chairman of the committee on railroads.
Peek, Hermanus
state legislator, congressman, was born in Albany, N. Y.
He was for two years a member of the New York assembly from Schenectady county; and a representative in congress from New York from 1819 to 1821.
Peel, Samuel W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1831, in Independence county, Ark. In 1867 he settled at Bentonville, Ark.; and was appointed prosecuting attorney in 1873, and was elected to that office in 1874, serving four years. He was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty-second congresses as a democrat.
Peelle, Stanton J
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1843, in Wayne county, Ind.
He entered the union army in 1861, and served three years. He was deputy district attorney of Marion county for two years; and was a representative in the state legislature from 1877 to 1879. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican. a
Peelle, William Adams
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Sept. 18, 1819, in Richmond county, N. C. He has served as prosecuting attorney; has been member of the lower house of the Indiana general assembly; and judge of common pleas court, criminal and circuit courts. He has also been secretary of state of Indiana.
Peers, Benjamin Orrs
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1800, in Loudoun county, Va. He was an episcopal clergyman and educator of Kentucky, founder of the common school system of Kentucky; and the author of American Education. He died Aug. 20, 1842, in Louisville, Ky.
Peery, William
congressman. He was a delegate from Delaware to the continental congress from 1785 to 1786.
Peet, Dudley
physician, author, was born July 9, 1830, in Hartford, Conn.
He studied and practiced medicine in New York, and became an instructor in the New York Institution for Deaf-Mutes.
He was the author of a Manual of Inorganic Chemistry for Students, which was revised and enlarged by Isaac L. Peet in 1868. He died April 18, 1862, in New York city.