Early Chicago settler.
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Early Fire Chief Dead in Chicago.
Charles Edwin Peck, during sixty-eight years a resident of Chicago. a former chief of the old volunteer fire department, and one of the best known of the city's pioneers, died yesterday at his residence. 2720 North Robey street, aged 88 years. The pioneer came to Chicago from Montpelier, Vt., in 1830. Chicago then was a village of 2,000 inhabitants, accessible only by stage coach and boat. The journey from Vermont required twenty-one days. "In the year I arrived," Mr. Peck was accustomed to relate, "the last Indian payment was made, and after that we never had trouble with the Indians, although they roamed the woods around town and frequently paid us visits. The Big Woods ' on the west side, as they were called, were fall of deer, and many a huntineexpedition was organized. In the winter of 1841 we organized parties to exterminate the prairie wolves. The citizens turned out to drive the beasts into the lake. Hundreds of wolves were forced out on the ice, shot, and thrown into the lake." Mr. Peck was a member of the jury which convicted the first Cook county murderer who was hanged. Mr. Peck left a widow. His second marriage was in 1876. He also is survived by two daughters by an earlier marriage Helen M. Peck and Mrs. Marian Johnson. The burial will be in Rosehill, and services will be private.
Chicago Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
13 Aug 1904, Sat • Page 5
Contributor: Laura (47617185)
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Early Fire Chief Dead in Chicago.
Charles Edwin Peck, during sixty-eight years a resident of Chicago. a former chief of the old volunteer fire department, and one of the best known of the city's pioneers, died yesterday at his residence. 2720 North Robey street, aged 88 years. The pioneer came to Chicago from Montpelier, Vt., in 1830. Chicago then was a village of 2,000 inhabitants, accessible only by stage coach and boat. The journey from Vermont required twenty-one days. "In the year I arrived," Mr. Peck was accustomed to relate, "the last Indian payment was made, and after that we never had trouble with the Indians, although they roamed the woods around town and frequently paid us visits. The Big Woods ' on the west side, as they were called, were fall of deer, and many a huntineexpedition was organized. In the winter of 1841 we organized parties to exterminate the prairie wolves. The citizens turned out to drive the beasts into the lake. Hundreds of wolves were forced out on the ice, shot, and thrown into the lake." Mr. Peck was a member of the jury which convicted the first Cook county murderer who was hanged. Mr. Peck left a widow. His second marriage was in 1876. He also is survived by two daughters by an earlier marriage Helen M. Peck and Mrs. Marian Johnson. The burial will be in Rosehill, and services will be private.
Chicago Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
13 Aug 1904, Sat • Page 5
Contributor: Laura (47617185)
Early Chicago settler.
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Early Fire Chief Dead in Chicago.
Charles Edwin Peck, during sixty-eight years a resident of Chicago. a former chief of the old volunteer fire department, and one of the best known of the city's pioneers, died yesterday at his residence. 2720 North Robey street, aged 88 years. The pioneer came to Chicago from Montpelier, Vt., in 1830. Chicago then was a village of 2,000 inhabitants, accessible only by stage coach and boat. The journey from Vermont required twenty-one days. "In the year I arrived," Mr. Peck was accustomed to relate, "the last Indian payment was made, and after that we never had trouble with the Indians, although they roamed the woods around town and frequently paid us visits. The Big Woods ' on the west side, as they were called, were fall of deer, and many a huntineexpedition was organized. In the winter of 1841 we organized parties to exterminate the prairie wolves. The citizens turned out to drive the beasts into the lake. Hundreds of wolves were forced out on the ice, shot, and thrown into the lake." Mr. Peck was a member of the jury which convicted the first Cook county murderer who was hanged. Mr. Peck left a widow. His second marriage was in 1876. He also is survived by two daughters by an earlier marriage Helen M. Peck and Mrs. Marian Johnson. The burial will be in Rosehill, and services will be private.
Chicago Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
13 Aug 1904, Sat • Page 5
Contributor: Laura (47617185)
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Early Fire Chief Dead in Chicago.
Charles Edwin Peck, during sixty-eight years a resident of Chicago. a former chief of the old volunteer fire department, and one of the best known of the city's pioneers, died yesterday at his residence. 2720 North Robey street, aged 88 years. The pioneer came to Chicago from Montpelier, Vt., in 1830. Chicago then was a village of 2,000 inhabitants, accessible only by stage coach and boat. The journey from Vermont required twenty-one days. "In the year I arrived," Mr. Peck was accustomed to relate, "the last Indian payment was made, and after that we never had trouble with the Indians, although they roamed the woods around town and frequently paid us visits. The Big Woods ' on the west side, as they were called, were fall of deer, and many a huntineexpedition was organized. In the winter of 1841 we organized parties to exterminate the prairie wolves. The citizens turned out to drive the beasts into the lake. Hundreds of wolves were forced out on the ice, shot, and thrown into the lake." Mr. Peck was a member of the jury which convicted the first Cook county murderer who was hanged. Mr. Peck left a widow. His second marriage was in 1876. He also is survived by two daughters by an earlier marriage Helen M. Peck and Mrs. Marian Johnson. The burial will be in Rosehill, and services will be private.
Chicago Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
13 Aug 1904, Sat • Page 5
Contributor: Laura (47617185)
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