History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ta he acceptedthe rectorshi]) fif the he mariied Mary Au-gusta Parker, daughter of .ludge AmasaParker, a prominent la\v\er of Delhi, N. family is of English Puiitan and Hugue-not French extraction, both the Peakes andthe Iarkers having come into New Yorkfrom (onnecticut. Colonel Ieake was youngwhen ills fatliei ot1i(ialed on the Iii(ificcoast, and he had the advantages of the ]iublic schools of that regio
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ta he acceptedthe rectorshi]) fif the he mariied Mary Au-gusta Parker, daughter of .ludge AmasaParker, a prominent la\v\er of Delhi, N. family is of English Puiitan and Hugue-not French extraction, both the Peakes andthe Iarkers having come into New Yorkfrom (onnecticut. Colonel Ieake was youngwhen ills fatliei ot1i(ialed on the Iii(ificcoast, and he had the advantages of the ]iublic schools of that region at SanFrancisco and four and a half years sjiecialtraining at St. Matthews Military Mateo, (al. \\lien he i-eturned lo Minnesota he attended the Sliattnck MilitarySchool, at Faribault, where, in addition to. AMAS.\ eAKKKI! his literaiy education, lie received a strictand most llidi-oiigh iiiilitary t raining. Whenthe young man struck out for himself hewent forth ready to take the first hon^ablework h(^ could (ind. H(^ was only twentyyears old when he went to Nalley City. N. I).—then .-i part of the Territory of Dakota—where lie aicejiied a |iosition ill a generalstore. He reiiiained in this ]iositioii for oneyear, and tliiu secured a minor ])osition inthe Farmers iV: .Merchants National which he wcnked his \\;\\ up until liewas cashier. When the shareholders of theinslitulinn concluded to go out of business,Mr. Peake was jiiit in charge of the li(]uida-tion. I5y the; time he had successfully woundu]i the affairs of the bank, he had workedinto the real estate and loan business, whichhe still carries cm. He finally saw the gi^atwealth lying uri(level()j)ed in lignite coal andadded coal mining and shipping to his busi-ness, associating for this purpose with l\
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