Peters, Matthew H
soldier, journalist, poet, legislator, was born June 6. 1843, in Rhenish, Bavaria. He was brought to this country when an infant, and has grown up thoroughly imbued with the spirit of American institutions. He served four years as a union soldier during the civil war; was twice severely wounded; rising from the rank of a private to the rank of major in his regiment-the seventy-fourth Ohio. He has served one term in the Illinois legislature, and was mayor of Watseka for four years. In 1872 he founded the Iroquois County Times of Watseka, Ill.; and his poems have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.