BIO: George M. Peck, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 223-224.
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  PECK, GEORGE M., was born in Forty Fort, Pa., on April 17, 1820, and 
died in his home in Green Ridge, Scranton, Pa., on February 16, 1897.
  He was the oldest son of the Rev. Dr. George Peck.  He gave his heart 
to God when but nine years of age, being influenced to do so by 
listening to a thrilling exhortation by Rev. Joseph Cross in Ithaca, 
N.Y., in the church of which his father was pastor.  Thus began a life 
which covered sixty-eight years of beautiful faith and trust.
  His preliminary education was such as schools of those times 
afforded, supplemented by help from his father.  Early in his teens he 
entered Cazenovia Seminary, but at nineteen years of age he left the 
seminary and took charge of his father's farm in Wyoming Valley.  After 
spending five years upon the farm he thought best to obey the call of 
God to work in his vineyard as a preacher of the Gospel.
  He joined Oneida Conference in 1845, becoming a member of Wyoming 
Conference at its organization.
  On July 18, 1839, he married Miss Sarah Louisa Butler, of Pompey, 
Onondaga County, N.Y.  Four children were born to them - a daughter, 
who died in infancy, and three sons, two of whom, Luther W. and William 
H., are still living, Merritt, the other son, was killed by being 
struck by an engine in a Western city in 1898.  On May 30, 1902, she 
joined her loved ones above.  Husband, wife, son, and daughter are 
buried in the Dunmore cemetery.
  After his superannuation in 1884 he settled in Green Ridge and 
experienced a beautiful setting of life's sun.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1845, Salem; 1846-47, Canaan; 
1848-49, Beach Pond; 1850-51, Mount Pleasant; 1852-53, Pittston; 1854-
55, Wyoming; 1856-57, Providence; 1858, sy.; 1859, Owego; 1860-61, 
Pittston; 1862-63, Carbondale; 1864-65, Providence; 1866-68, Presiding 
Elder of Lackawanna District; 1869-70, Unadilla; 1871, Berkshire; 1872-
75, sy.; 1876-77, Cherry Ridge; 1878-79, Salem; 1880-81, Clifford; 
1882-83, Park Place (Court Street); 1884-1896, sd.