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Peake, Thomas De Witt

educator, clergyman, author, was born March 19, 1843, in Princeton, Ohio. He received his education in the public schools and graduated from Hartsville university. For many years he was a successful teacher; was educated for the law, and is now one of the foremost clergymen of the methodist episcopal church in Wisconsin at Beloit. He is also an orator of unusual power, and a noted theologian. He is the author of Sanctification; The Symbolism of Solomon's Temple; Methodism and the Children; The Intermediate State; and other works. He is a prominent Mason, and owns the largest private library in the state of Wisconsin.