. History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774. lymW. 559 GEORGE RECORD PECK. George R. Peck, lawyer, born near Cameron, Steuben County, N. Y., May15, 1843, was tne youngest son of Joel M. and Amanda (Purdy) Peck; hisearliest American ancestor was William Peck, who came from England to XewEngland in 1637. His parents removed in 1849 to Jefferson County, Wis., set-tled near Palmyra, where he remained at
. History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774. lymW. 559 GEORGE RECORD PECK. George R. Peck, lawyer, born near Cameron, Steuben County, N. Y., May15, 1843, was tne youngest son of Joel M. and Amanda (Purdy) Peck; hisearliest American ancestor was William Peck, who came from England to XewEngland in 1637. His parents removed in 1849 to Jefferson County, Wis., set-tled near Palmyra, where he remained at home, alternating work and study,until 1861. He was fond of study, and early manifested a keen love for litera-ture, reading every good book within reach, and at the age of fourteen heentered the Palmyra high school. Two years later he became a teacher, andin 1859 entered Milton College, at Milton, Wis. On the outbreak of the Civil War, he left college, and enlisted as a privatein the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, of which he soon became a lieutenant;and finally was promoted to a captaincy in the Thirty-first Wisconsin was with Shermans army in its march to the sea, and was engaged in allthe important battles and sieges of t
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