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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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Erie County,
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Biographies
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| JOSHUA PALMERTON |
| JAMES C. PARKER |
| JAMES D. PARKER |
| JOHN PAYNE, JR. |
| JAMES S. PAXTON |
HEWSON
L. PEEKE. In the publication of this work, the
writer of the following has been associated with Hewson L.
Peeke, not in the preparation of the historical data but in
attending to the strictly business details oaf getting out this
history of Erie County. The history would not be complete
without some recounting of the activities of H. L. Peeke,
of his record as a lawyer, and his service to humanity
generally.
Mr. Peeke has been a resident of Sandusky since
December, 1883. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, April
20, 1861. A part of his youth was spent in the City of
Chicago, where he was graduated from high school in 1878.
He took his collegiate work in Williams College from where he
was graduated in 1882, and in the following year on account of
ill health he went out to Dakota Territory. His
experiences in gaining admission to the bar of the territory and
his subsequent law studies after locating in Ohio have been
recounted on other pages. Mr. Peeke was admitted to
the Ohio bar January 7, 1885, and at once took up practice at
Sandusky. It can be said with truth that few lawyers have
had a larger and more profitable practice than Mr. Peeke
in Sandusky. He has attended to the legal business
with a scrupulous care that has gained him the esteem not only
of a large circle of clients but of the fellow members at the
bar. His standing in the profession was given an
unqualified testimonial when he was chosen as the prohibition
candidate for the Supreme judgeship of Ohio. There were
fourteen candidates for the three seats to be filled on the
Supreme bench, and Mr. Peeke stood third in the size of
the vote case in Erie County. It is with proper pride that
he cherishes as a memento of his campaign a testimonial of
confidence which was signed by thirty members of the county bar,
in fact all but two.
Mr. Peeke is a man of varied interests and
attainments. He has always been interested in things
literary, and particularly in history, and it was his enthusiasm
for local history and his desire to do something to preserve in
permanent form the records of Erie County that led to his taking
up the work represented in this publication.
Politically, he has for more than thirty years been
identified with the prohibition party. In fact, he cast
his first ballot for the prohibition ticket in 1885. He
has always advocated the idea that the platform of the party
should be confined to prohibition, and has consistently urged
that principal in both the state and national council of the
party. He was first candidate for the office of judge of
the Supreme Court on the prohibition ticket in 1891. In
1900 he was a candidate for presidential elector. In 1902
he was a candidate for Congress in the thirteenth Ohio District.
He was chosen grand chief templar of the Ohio Grand Lodge of
Good Templars in 1902. In 1901 he formed the Cornerstone
Publishing Company in order to publish the Ohio state
prohibition paper. At the Akron State Convention he was
both permanent and temporary chairman in 1901. He has
served a number of places on the state and national committees
of the prohibition party, and in 1912 became a member of the
national committee, a delegate at large to the national
convention, and was chairman of the state committee. He
was also permanent chairman of the prohibition state convention
at Springfield in May 1903, and was chairman of the State
Central Committee in the years 1905-06-07. He was
temporary chairman of the Ohio State Convention at Columbus in
1908. In 1904 he was a delegate at large from Ohio to the
Indianapolis convention and a delegate from Ohio to the national
convention at Columbus in 1908. (E. H. M.) |
| HENRY PFEIL, JR. |
| FREDERICK JOHN PHILBY |
| CLAYTON W. PLATT |
| D. C. POWERS |
| FRANK PRITCHARD |
| HENRY PRINGNITZ |
| ALBERT H. PROUT |
| SIMEON C. PROUT |
| JOSEPH
PUCKRIN, Perkins, Sandusky p. o., one of the
representative men of Erie county, was born in Sandusky, Mar.
23, 1843. He received his education in the Sandusky
schools, and graduated from the Commercial College at Detroit,
Mich. He taught school for several terms, after which eh
became engaged as a clerk in the treasurer's office of the S. &
C. Railroad, and in 1864 became engaged in farming. He was
married in 1867 to Lydia Colver, who was born April 15,
1842, in Brockport, N. Y. They have had two children:
Martha Frances, born Jan. 20, 1870; Andrew E.,
born June 18, 1873. Lydia was a daughter of
Darius S. and Mary (Bennett) Colver. Darius was
born Oct. 22, 1809, and died April 3, 1871; Martha was
born Aug. 10, 1814, and died June 26, 1874. Joseph
was a son of Thomas and Martha Puckrin, who were born and
married in Yorkshire, England. They emigrated to Ohio in
1838 and settled in Sandusky about 1841, where they died,
leaving a family of five children: George, Joseph,
Mary, Matthew, and Edward. Joseph is at present
justice, having held that office for twelve years. He was
elected member of the State Assembly in 1882 and 1884, and is
now one of the leading farmers of his county. |
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