Bio of PEEBLES, Thomas (b.1857), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 719-720
THOMAS PEEBLES
Thomas Peebles was born in Letterkenny, County Donegal, Free State of Ireland,
March 18, 1857, and came to America with his parents and family in 1870,
settling near Utica, Ohio. The following year he went to Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and soon found employment with the Pennsylvania Railroad. In due
time he went to Princeton University and graduated with the class of 1882,
taking the Mental Science Fellowship, which naturally led to an extra year's
residence at the University, in which, owing to the death of Dr. Atwater, he was
called on to teach some of his classes. This led to his recommendation to a
professorship in kindred subjects, in the University of Minnesota, which became
vacant at that time because of the resignation of Dr. Alexander T. Ormond. Mr.
Peebles continued with the University for five years and resigned to enter the
practice of law. In this field he continued in general practice until he became
legal adviser and later managing director of three important corporations: The
Mississippi Valley Telephone Company; the Goose Lake Valley Irrigation Com­pany,
an irrigation company operating in southern Oregon; and the Arlington Land
Company, which took over the Tierra Auxarilla Land Grant in the state of New
Mexico. The two latter have occupied his attention continuous since 1906.
In 1886 Mr. Peebles was married to Katherine Norwood Smith, a St. Paul girl,
daughter of Augusta Norwood Smith, who was for many years professor of history
in the University of Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Peebles are the parents of two
sons, and reside at No. 68 Ash street. Mr. Peebles launched his sons into the
business of building small homes in Minneapolis and in conjunction with them has
built hundreds of houses in this city. His older son, T. C. Peebles, now an
independent operator, is well known in this line, and his younger son is
operating a corporation in which his father is jointly interested at the present
time.