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Peck, Theodore Safford – Peery, William

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 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.

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.

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.