Peaslee, Charles H
public official, congressman, was born in February, 1804, in Gilmanton, N. H. He was a state representative from 1833 to 1837, and adjutant-general of New Hampshire from 1839 to 1847. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1853, and was collector of customs at Boston from 1853 to 1857. He died in October, 1866, in St. Paul, Minn.
PEATTIE, MRS. ELIA WILKINSON, journalist, author, was born in 1862 in Michigan. She is a journalist of Chicago, and the author of The Judge, a novel; A Trip Through Wonderland, a volume of Alaska travel; With Scrip and Staff, a story of the Children's Crusade; and A Mountain Woman.