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Through the confidence of his Republican associates, Mr. Parker has held nearly all the positions of trust and responsibility in the town, which he represented in 1874. Fourteen years later he was called to a seat in the Senate from Windsor county. Both these positions he filled with dignity and credit.
PARKER, LUTHER FLETCHER, of Peacham, son of Isaac and Arabella (Cobb) Parker, was born in Coventry, Sept. 22, 1821.
The early education of Mr. Luther Parker was obtained in the schools of Coventry and in Brownington and Peacham Academies, and while a student he taught in Coventry and the neighboring towns. In 1844 he entered the U. V. M., but after remaining two years was obliged to leave the university on account of ill-health, when he again taught for two years at Coventry Falls. He then commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. G. W. Cobb, of Peacham, and after the latter's death continued with his successor, Dr. Farr, attending a course of lectures at Dartmouth and Woodstock. He was subsequently requested by Dr. Brewer, of Barnet, to assume his large prac- tice, which he retained till his removal to Peacham, when he purchased the profes- sional connection of Dr. Farr. In 1864 he received the diploma of M. D. from Dart- mouth College. For forty years he has had a large and extensive practice, has kept fully abreast with the great advance of medical science for the past half century, and has gained a high reputation as a con- sulting physician in all the surrounding country. Dr. Parker is the proprietor of a farm in Peacham, which he himself operates.
Formerly a whig, but now a Republican, though often sought for political office, he has always refused to serve, except in 1886 and 1888, when he represented Peacham in
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the Legislature, in both sessions being a member of the temperance and ways and means committees. He has always been active in seenring and enforcing prohibitory laws. Ile was sent, after the battle of the Wilderness, in charge of a sum of money collected in Peacham for the sanitary com- mission. When he arrived at the front the exigency of the occasion was so great that he gave his professional services freely to the wounded in that great battle.
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He has been a member of several medical societies, of Peacham Congregational Church, the Vermont Home Missionary Society, and always a generous contributor to different religious organizations.
Dr. Parker married, June 6, 1850, Louisa, daughter of Deacon Moses and Jane Adel- aine (Martin) Martin, of Peacham. Of this union are issue : Mrs. E. C. Hardy, of Framingham, Mass .; Mrs. W. H. Bayley, of Peacham ; Mrs. G. B. M. Harvey, of New York ; H. M., of Minneapolis, Minn., and Lizzie A.
PARTRIDGE, FRANK CHARLES, of Proctor, son of Charles F. and Sarah A. (Rice) Partridge, was born in East Middle- bury, May 7, 1861.
He graduated from the Middlebury high school with the class of '77, and followed this with one term at Middlebury College. Entering Amherst College in the fall of 1878, he graduated in 1882 at the head of his class, receiving the degree of A. B., and was pres-
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ident of his class. In the fall of 1882 he entered Columbia College Law School, and graduated in 1884 with the degree of L. L. B.
Mr. Partridge was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Vermont in 1885, and in the United States Supreme Court in 1891. He was assistant manager of the Producers Marble Co. of Rutland from 1884 to 1885, when he removed to Proctor, where he be- came treasurer of the Vermont Marble Co., serving in that capacity until 1890, since which time he has been vice-president. He is also vice-president of the Clarendon & Pittsford Railroad Co., and a director of the Proctor Trust Co.
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Politically, Mr. Partridge has always been a Republican, and though young in years has been honored with elections to many posi- tions of trust. He was a page in the Senate of 1876, page to the Governor in 1878; town clerk of the town of Proctor, 1887-'90, and town agent and school trustee. He was private secretary to Secretary of War Proc- tor from 1889 to 1890. June 10, 1890, he was appointed solicitor for the Department of State by the President to succeed Walker Blaine. He served as law officer of that department during the last two years of Sec- retary Blaine's administration, and under the administration of Secretary Foster until Jan. 25, 1893, when he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Venezuela, which position he still holds.
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A young man of great native ability and strong character, Mr. Partridge owes his success in life to his own energies.
PARTRIDGE, HENRY V., of Norwich, son of Capt. Alden and Ann Elizabeth (Swazey) Partridge, was born in Norwich, Dec. 10, 1839. His father, Capt. Alden Partridge, was born in Norwich, Jan. 12, 1785, and was the son of a Revolutionary soldier. Captain Partridge graduated from West Point in 1806, having entered that institution in 1805, his junior year at Dartmouth College. The following year he was appointed professor of mathematics at the military school of the United States and the September following was made professor of engineering. After- ward he was promoted to the post of super- intendent of the school and discharged the duties of that position, with one or more in- termissions, until 1818, when he resigned and went out in charge of a surveying party sent to the northeast frontier of the United States in order to determine the boundary line. In 1820 Captain Partridge founded the American Literary, Scientific and Mili- tary Academy at Norwich, which he taught with much success until 1825 when he re- moved the school to Middletown, Conn. In 1832 Captain Partridge returned to Nor- wich and reopened the school. Two years after a charter was obtained from the Legis- lature and the academy became a military college with Captain Partridge as its first president. Under his supervision the insti- tution ranked second only to the National Academy. Captain Partridge died at Nor- wich, Jan. 17, 1854.
The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of Norwich, from private instruction, and at Bristol Col- lege, Penn. In 1859 he went to Illinois where he entered an office for the purpose of making himself a member of the legal pro- fession, and a year after removed to Warren, Penn., to continue his studies.
In April, 1861, he responded to President Lincoln's first call for troops and raised a company of the 39th Regt. Pa. Vols. (10th Reserves), McCall's Division. He partici- pated first in the battle of Gainesville and afterward in McClellan's Peninsular cam- paign, but was discharged for physical dis- ability in August, 1862. In 1863 he was appointed to a position in the paymaster general's office at Washington and remained in that capacity about three years. Then he became an attorney for the Union Paper Collar Co. of New York, continuing in their service for five years. Since that time he has made his residence at Colbrook, Conn., and Norwich, from which latter town he was elected to the Legislature in 1882.
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PEARL., ISAAC 1 .. , of Johnson, son of Cimri A. and Eliza ( Blake ) Pearl was born in Milton, Nov. 17, 1832.
His father was a woolen manufacturer, and, after pursuing the customary educa- tional course at the public schools and the Milton Academy, the son concluded to follow the same business ; and in order to give himself a thorough training in his chosen occupation, he commenced to work in the Winooski Woolen Mills. He then shifted the scene of his labors to the estab- lishment of Messrs. S. & D. M. Dow in Johnson, and, on the death of the latter, purchased a half interest in the factory, where, in partnership with Stephen Dow, he continued the business eight years. Mr. Dow then withdrew, but after some changes in the firm again renewed his interest. In April, 1871, the mill was burned and imme- diately rebuilt and since then for twenty years the business has been successfully con- ducted by the firm of I. 1 .. Pearl & Co. Mr. Pearl commenced at the foot of the ladder, learning every detail of the business and from the completeness of his early training, has been able successfully to mount to the top, and has seen the fruition of his hopes in the fine factory and increased business, that have crowned the efforts of his lifetime.
He was married, March 11, 1858, to Hattie N., daughter of Sylvester N. and Caroline (Green) Tracey. Four children are issue of their alliance, three of whom are living : Jed. A., Flora A., and Lizzie H.
Mr. Pearl is a director of the Lamoille County National Bank of Hyde Park, and has been for a long time secretary of the board of trustees of the Johnson State Nor- mal School. Four times he has filled the chair of Worshipful Master of Waterman Lodge, No. 83, F. & A. M., of Johnson, and he is also a member of the I. O. G. T.
In his political preference a Republican, he was elected judge of probate of Lamoille county in 1870, was county commissioner for four years and for a quarter of century has been auditor. He was honored by be- ing the choice of his fellow-townsmen to represent them in the state Legislature of 1888, and in that body was chairman of the manufacturing committee.
PEASE, ALLEN LUTHER, of Hartford, son of Luther and Harriet (Cone) Pease, was born in Hartford, Sept. 8, 1843. His father was a successful and enterprising business man in Hartford, in whose public affairs he was always prominent.
Mr. A. L. Pease passed through the cus- tomary course of education in the common schools and then received a higher grade of instruction in Kimball Union Academy, of Meriden, N. H.
Shortly after he arrived at man's estate, he emigrated to Kansas and there engaged in mercantile pursuits, being an active partici. pant in the stirring scenes of that period. After remaining six years, he returned to Hartford and became a member of the firm of 1 .. Pease & Son, dealers in hardware and agricultural implements. This business he has successfully conducted for twenty-three years, during the last seventeen of which he has been sole proprietor. He has also been largely interested in real estate and has erected many buildings, notably the Pease Hotel. Mr. Pease has been a director of the White River Savings Bank, and was one of the incorporators of the Capital Savings Bank and Trust Co., of Montpelier.
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An ardent adherent of the Republican party, he was sent to the Legislature in 1884, where he served on the committee on corpo- rations. In 1890, he was chosen senator from Windsor county, and in this branch of the Legislature was chairman of the state prison committee and member of that on claims. He held the appointment of post- master from 1881 to 1884.
Mr. Pease espoused, Jan. 28, 1869, Sophia M., daughter of Chandler and Roxanna (Huntting) Ward, of Lawrence, Kan.
He is an eminent member of the Masonic fraternity in which he has taken a deep and abiding interest for thirty years. During this period he has passed through the various bodies of the craft, until he has attained
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the 32d degree. At the present time he sits in the master's chair in Hartford Lodge No. 19, is a member of Windsor Chap- ter No. 6, R. A. M., Windsor Council No. 8, R. & S. M., and Vermont Commandery No. 4, K. T.
PECK, CICERO GODDARD, of Hines- burgh, son of Nahum and Lucinda (Wheeler) Peck, was born in the quiet village of Hines- burgh, Feb. 17, 1828. His father, Nahum Peck, was a distinguished lawyer, and at the time of his death was the oldest practitioner in Chittenden county. Cicero G. Peck is a descendant in the eighth generation from Joseph Peck, who in 1638, with other Puri- tans of Belton, Yorkshire, England, fled from the persecution of the Established church to this country to secure for them- selves freedom of thought, speech, and action.
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Cicero G. was educated in the common schools and at the old Hinesburgh Academy, in which institution he prepared, at the age of twenty, for a regular collegiate course, but his health failed and he was forced, though reluctantly, to abandon his cher- ished hope of a liberal education, and to seek outdoor employment. He therefore engaged in agricultural occupations, in which he has been quite successful, and has, therefore, remained on a farm all his life, though he has devoted a good deal of time to other affairs, having been called on fre-
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quently to act as executor or administrator in the settlement of important estates in the vicinity.
He has enjoyed the entire confidence of his townsmen, as is evinced by the fact that he has been called to every office within their gift, and several of these he has filled many times. He has been chosen to fill the position of selectman seven consecutive years. He has always taken an active interest in all public institutions or in any movement to advance the welfare of the ag- ricultural portion of the community. In 1864 he took a leading part in organizing the Valley Factory Cheese Co., which has been in successful operation under his super- vision, and has been a great financial benefit to the farmers of the town.
In early life he identified himself with the Free Soil party, and was always a strong op- ponent of the aggressions of the slave power, and since the organization of the Republican party has been a firm adherent to its princi- ples. In 1878 the Republicans of Chitten- den county, recognizing his loyalty to the political principles which he professes, and his fitness for the position, elected him to represent the county in the state Senate, where he served on the committee on edu- cation, grand list, and chairman of the com- mittee under the fourth joint rule. In 1890 he was chosen by his townsmen to represent his town in the Legislature, also being a member at the extra session of 1891. As a member of the House he served on the committee of joint rules, as chairman of the joint special committee on industrial mat- ters, and again on the committee on educa- tion, taking an active part in urging the adoption of the town system of schools.
He has always taken a lively and active part in all educational matters, has been a member of the school board for fifteen years, and town superintendent from 1877 to 1884, inclusive, and again from 1891 to 1894. Un- der the school law of 1888 he was chosen a member of the board of education, which of- fice he filled while this law remained in force. By this board he was chosen committee for the selection of text books for the county, having twice before served on a like com- mittee. At the session of 1892 he was nom- inated by Governor Fuller and confirmed by the Senate as trustee of the state reform school for six years, from Dec. 1, 1892. In June, 1893, he was honored by Governor Fuller as one of the appointees to the inter- national congress of charities, correction and philanthropy, held at Chicago, June 12-18. 1893.
He has been an outspoken and earnest advocate of temperance, always favoring all organizations having for their chief aim the suppression of the vice of intemperance, and
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for several years when the order of Good Templars was active, was worthy chict of the lodge in his town. In early life he identi fed hnusch with the Methodist Episcopal church, and has always been an active and liberal supporter of all the interests of the church of his choice.
Ile was married at Hinesburgh, March 29, 1854, to Maria P., daughter of Selah and Phoebe ( Russell) Coleman, of Hinesburgh. Hle has no children of his own, but has an adopted daughter, Lucy, now married to Rev. M. R. France, of Cobleskill, N. Y.
PECK, MARCUS, of Brookfield, son of Reuben and Hannah G. (Edson) Peck, was born in Brookfield, Jan. 26, 1834. Reuben Peck was a life-long resident and successful business man in the town of Brookfield, and inseparably connected with the agricultural, commercial and manufacturing interests of the place, living to the patriarchal age of eighty-five.
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Marcus received his educational advan- tages in the common schools, and at the academies of Newbury and Barre. Soon after he arrived at years of discretion he commenced the sale of hay forks, and has pursued this occupation more or less ever since. He has had the general management of the manufacture and sale of this article since 1870, and is now sole proprietor of the business, which is conducted under the firm name of Peck, Clark & Co. They also turn out garden rakes, hoes and cant hooks, for
which they find a ready sale throughout New England and New York, and the merit of the product is too well known to require comment. Mr. Peck was formerly largely interested in cheese factories, and at the present time is extensively engaged in farm- ing in Brookfield and adjoining towns.
Ile was elected by the Republican vote, senator from Orange county in 1880, serv- ing on many important committees. He was a charter member of Mystic Lodge, No. 97, F. & A. M., the position of worshipful mas- ter of which he has filled nine terms.
Mr. Peck married, June 26, 1859, Mary E., daughter of Erastus and Electa ( Brown) Wilcox, who bore him four children : One who died at the age of eleven, Bessie Fran- ces (deceased), Mary Stella (Mrs. Arthur Lyman of Rutland), and Marcia I .. His first wife died in 1872, and he contracted a second alliance in January, 1873, with Mrs. Adeline (Abbott) Wheatley, daughter of Walter and Sarah Abbott.
Mr. Peck has been active in church work for over forty years, and has been one of the officers of the Second Congregational Church for the last fifteen years.
PECK, THEODORE SAFFORD, of Burl- ington, was born in Burlington, March 22, 1843. He enlisted at the age of eighteen as private in Co. F, Ist Vt. Cavalry, Sept. I, 1861 ; mustered into the United States ser- vice, Nov. 1, 1861; transferred to Co. K, and discharged for promotion, June 25, 1862 ; appointed, by Col. George Jerrison Stannard, regimental quartermaster-sergeant, . 9th Regt., Vt. Infantry, June 25, 1862 ; pro- moted 2d lieutenant, Co. C, Jan. 7, 1863 ; promoted Ist lieutenant, Co. H, June 10, 1864 ; acting regimental quartermaster and adjutant, also acting assistant adjutant-gen- eral, aid-de-camp, and brigade quartermas- ter, 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 18th Army Corps ; promoted captain and assistant quar- termaster, United States Volunteers, March II, 1865 ; assigned to Ist Brigade, 3d Divi- sion, 24th Army Corps. He served on the staffs of Brevet Maj. Gen. George J. Stan- nard, Brig .- Gen. Isaac J. Wistar at Suffolk, Va., Brig .- Gen. Joseph H. Potter, Brevet Brig .- Gen. Michael T. Donahue, and Brevet Brig .- Gen. Edward H. Ripley, in the trenches in front of Petersburg and Richmond, Va. In the Vermont cavalry he was present in action at Middletown and Winchester, Va., May 24 and 25, 1862 ; in the 9th Regt., Winchester, August, and Harper's Ferry, Va., Sept. 13, 14 and 15, 1862 (captured and paroled) ; siege of Suffolk, Nansemond, Edenton Road, Blackwater, May, 1863; Yorktown and raid to Gloucester Court House, Va., July and August, 1863 ; action of Young's Cross Roads, December, 1863;
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Newport Barracks, Feb. 2, 1864; raid to Swansborough and Jacksonville, N. C., May, 1864 ; Fort Harrison, Sept. 29 and 30, 1864 ; Fair Oaks, Va., Oct. 29, 1864; was present in New York City commanding a battalion, 9th Vt. Regt., in November, 1864, at the second election of President Lincoln. He was also present in the siege (winter, 1864, and spring, 1865) and capture of Richmond, Va., and was with the first organized command of infantry (3d Brigade, 3d Division, 24th Army Corps) to enter the confederate capital at the surrender on the morning of April 3, 1865 ; his brigade was also provost guard of the city for two weeks after its capture. He was wounded Sept. 29, 1864, in the assault of Fort Harrison, Va. He received a medal of
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honor inscribed as follows : "The Congress to Ist Lieut. Theodore S. Peck, Co. H, 9th Vt. Vols., for gallantry in action at Newport Barracks, N. C., Feb. 2, 1864."
Captain Peck was mustered out of the United States service on account of the close of the war, June 23, 1865, having served nearly four years as a private in the ranks, an officer in the line and on the staff, a mem- ber of the cavalry corps and also of the Ist, 4th, 9th, 18th, and 24th army corps in the armies of the Potomac and the James. The government at the close of the war offered him two commissions in the regular army, which were declined.
Upon his return to Vermont he was ap- pointed chief of staff, with rank of colonel,
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by Governor John W. Stewart ; afterwards colonel of the first and only regiment of in- fantry of the state, which position he held for eight years. In 1869 appointed assist- ant adjutant-general of the G. A. R. depart- ment of Vermont, and by his energy and tact saved the order from going to pieces ; in 1872, senior vice commander, and in 1876- '77 department commander. In 1881 he was appointed adjutant-general of Vermont, with rank of brigadier-general, and is on duty in this office at the present time. He is a charter member of the Vermont Com- mandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion and was a vice president-general of the National Society, Sons of American Revolu- tion. He had four ancestors in the Revolu- tionary war and one in the war of 1812. General Peck was appointed by President Harrison a member of the board of visitors at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1891.
He is a resident of Burlington, following the business of general insurance, and repre- senting fire, life, marine and accident com- panies, the aggregate capital of which amounts to about $300,000,000, the business extending throughout the United States and Canada.
On the 29th of October, 1879, he married Agnes Louise, daughter of the late William Leslie of Toronto, Ont. They have one child : Mary Agnes Leslie.
General Peck is a man of public spirit and enterprise. In politics he is a loyal Repub- lican. He is a member of the Masonic and other fraternities, and was for ten years grand marshal of the Grand Lodge of Vermont.
PECKETT, JOHN BARRON, of Brad- ford, son of John Barron and Martha (Til- ton) Peckett, was born in Bradford, Dec. 19, 1822, and has always resided there.
His education was received at the public schools of Bradford. His father was a dealer in lumber, a farmer, and a business man who was a prominent figure in the early history of the town, of active energy and robust, vigorous frame. The son, though not cast in the same iron mould, inherited many of the mental traits of his parent.
At the age of fourteen years he entered the employment of Asa Low, Esq., a promi- nent merchant of the town. At his majority he formed a partnership with Adams Preston, Esq., which continued three years. He then engaged with his former employer and re- mained with him until April, 1854. He then purchased an interest in a large grist mill and saw mill in Bradford, and formed a partnership with Col. George W. Pritchard & Sons, and for thirty-seven years was the active manager of this establishment during the existence of four firms. An immense
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business was carried on in wood, lumber and grain during the enthe period. Mr. Peckett's masterly management caused the respective firms to stand high in financial circles, and the business among the leading enterprises of the state.
He enlisted in 1861 in the Bradford Guards, ist Regt., and as ist Lieut. of that company was present at the battle of Big Bethel, being mustered out at the expiration of his term of service. He is a member of Washburn Post, No. 17, G. A. R.
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Mr. Peckett has held many town offices, but is perhaps best known as justice of the peace, the duties of which he has performed for twenty years.
He was united in marriage, Sept. 9, 1847, to Caroline H., daughter of Asa and Lucinda (Brooks) Low of Bradford. Two sons and two daughters have been born to them : Asa Low (who at this writing is engaged in the claims department of the Boston & Maine R. R. at Boston, Mass.), John B., Jr. (who is an attorney at law at Bradford), Caroline Frances (deceased at twenty), and Martha L. (died in infancy).
He has conducted his business in such a systematic manner as to conduce both to private and public prosperity. He has been thoroughly identified with the financial pros- perity of the town of Bradford, and has constructed more buildings than any other individual in the place. By his dilligence and energy he has acquired a handsome competency.
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He was very influential in opening a road on the west side of Lake Morey, in Fairlee, and from the head of said lake to Bradford line. He has built a fine sunnner residence upon a beautiful and commanding point of the shore of said lake, and is greatly interested in the development of the locality.
The family for three generations have been strong advocates of temperance and emphat- ically in favor of an impartial enforcement of the legal enactments to suppress the liquor traffic.
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