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Name |
Peake, Chester [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
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Person ID |
I51828 |
Sackett |
Last Modified |
26 Dec 2018 |
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- [S2071] Biographical review : this volume contains biographical sketches of the leading citizens of Delaware County, New York., (Ancestry.com), 404 (Reliability: 1), 26 Dec 2018.
Albert D. Peake, attorney-at-law, and proprietor of the Walton Novelty Works of Walton, Delaware County, N.Y., ws born in Hamden, this county, on November 17, 1846, son of Ira and Celinda (Tiffany) Peak. The family are of good old English ancestry, and came to America about 1700, settling in Schenectady County, N.Y.
Roswell Peak, the grandfather of Albert D., married Miss Mary Mason, by whom he had twelve children; namely, Matilda, Maria, Sirissa, Emeline, Sibyl, Julia, Walter C., Ira , Cyrus, Warren L., Augustus, and Eleazer.
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Ira, the father of Albert D. Peake, the subject of this sketch, was born in Hamden, March 19, 1806, and died in 1885. He married in 1826 Celinda Tiffany, of Massachusetts, and of old New England stock. At the time of Mr. and Mrs. Peake's settlement in Hamden they were in extremely moderate circumstances, and bought at first but a small piece of land. Energetic and enterprising, he added to this until at last he owned over five hundred acres, and became on of the largest and wealthiest farmers in the country. At the time he settled in Hamden his nearest trading-post was on the Hudson River, where he hauled his produce and bought his stores. Mr. Peake was a man of more than ordinary ability. He was a close friend of Henry Clay, voting with the
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old Whig party, and was one of the first to espouse the Republican cause.
He was a string Abolitionist, and much opposed to the traffic and use of liquor in any form. Iraa and Celinda (Tiffany) Peake were the parents of the following children:
Anna Eliza Peake, born December 4, 1827, married E. J. Fraser, who settled first at Delhi, and afterward at Hamden, where Mrs. Fraser died. She had seven children--Mary, Elizabeth A., Celinda, Jennie, Emma, Ebenezer B, and Ella. Frances Peake, born October 14, 1829, married James H. Arbuckle, and settled in California. They had one child who died in infancy. Robert B. Peake, born November 5, 1831, settled first in California, afterward moving to Washington. He married Emma Ladd, by whom he had six children. Warren P. Peake, born July 6, 1833, settled in Nebraska, and is supposed to have been murdered. He maried Eunice Bagley, by whom he had three children: Viah and Lillian, both deceased; and Irving, of Russell, Kan. Roswell L. Peake, born June 23, 1835, settled in Hastings, Minn. He married Adelia Robinson, and had the following children: Millard F.; Roberta; Mary; Cora; Eva; Albert E.; Dewitt; and Winfield S., deceased. Martha A. Peake, born September 20, 1837; married Joshua B. Brandt, of Walton, and had four children: Douglas D.; Joshua, deceased; Herschel, deceased; and Albert P. Charlotte Peake, born October 14, 1843, married Daniel Brisack, and died in Walton, leaving one son, Curtis. Albert D. Peake, was the fourth son of his parents. His mother, Celinda T. Peake, died in 1866. Ira Peake married for his second wife Miss Abigail Law, by whom he had five children--Sheridan, Francis, Arthur, Herbert, and Lillian. Mrs. Abigail Peake died in 1875l and Mr. Peake married for his third wife Miss Pauline Law, by whom he had two children--Ira and Chester.
Transcribed by Ted Smith
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