E. (Eleazer) D. Peake Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Jamestown, Biographical Sketches, Page 1034

E. D. PEAKE, teacher; Jamestown; was born in Hamden, Delaware Co., N. Y., July 
27, 1836, and engaged during the earlier years of his life, up to 1862, in 
farming, lumbering and school teaching; circumstances prevented his enlisting at 
the outbreak of the rebellion, but he soon afterward followed the strong 
inclination of his mind, and entered the Quartermaster's Department, going to 
Florida as a lumberman, where he remained from August, 1864, to June, 1865; he 
was at Jacksonville, when many Union soldiers entered that prison-pen and the 
Abolition sentiments entertained by him were heightened by the brutality shown 
at that place; soon after returning North from Florida, Mr. Peake taught school 
in Anawan, Ill., and in the summer of 1866, came to Jamestown, where he has 
since resided; has held the office of Justice of the Peace, but is no office-
seeker. Was married, June 1, 1871, to Miss Martha E. Judd, of Stafford, Genesee 
Co., N. Y.; they have no children; is Republican in politics.