Bio of PEET, William, 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 II, pg 90
WILLIAM PEET
William Peet, a prominent attorney, has made his home in Minneapolis since 1884.
He is a native of Brooklyn, New York, a son of William Peet of the well known
law firm in its day, of Bristow, Peet & Opdyke of New York city; and a grandson
of Frederick T. Peet, a retired merchant of New York city, who built his home
and lived on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, from the early part of the nineteenth
century. The old home in the Heights overlooked the waters of New York bay, and
across the East river, the city of New York, and stood for several generations,
to see the city of Brooklyn grow up around it.
William Peet is a graduate of the Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn and of Amherst
College in the class of 1878. From 1878 to 1880 he attended Columbia Law School,
and was in his father's law office as a student and was admitted to practice as
a lawyer in New York, in 1880.
After admission to the bar, William Peet formed a law partnership with his
college friend and classmate, the Hon. Charles H. Fuller. This partnership
continued until 1884, when the call of those days to "Go west, young man,"
persuaded him to choose Minneapolis for his home. Owing to his father's
connections and his own friends, he was entrusted with the investment of funds
for eastern clients, in real estate mortgages. This naturally directed his law
work to real estate, private and office practice, rather than to court work.
Mr. Peet is a republican in politics and a stanch believer in a representative
government. He also believes that the trend of the times toward a pure democracy
will lend only to mobocracy and to the downfall of our government.
Mr. Peet, in college, was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity, and in Minneapolis
has been a member of the Minikahda and Lafayette clubs since their organization,
and was a member of the Minneapolis Club until after his marriage. For
recreation, Mr. Peet was brought up in a yachting atmosphere and has devoted his
play hours largely to sailing-on the waters of New York bay, Long Island sound
and the Atlantic coast, from early childhood; and on Lake Minnetonka since he
came west. His father organized the Atlantic Yacht Club of Brooklyn, and was one
of its early commodores. His father also had built the first Herreshoff yacht
which came to New York city. Mr. Peet, also, was a commodore of the Minnetonka
Yacht Club, and his reputation as a prize winner is now history in the early
annals of the club.
Mr. Peet married, somewhat late in life, Miss Grace M. Grant, whose devotion to
her home and charming personality are well known to her friends. To their union
one son has been born, William, Junior.