ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.


THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO
        WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
          OF ITS PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MENT
           Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

                   "EDWIN ORLANDO PECK 

  The gentleman whose name heads this article was born in Colebrook,
  Connecticut on the 30th day of January, 1815.  He is the second child of Justus
  and Sally Peck.  The family removed to Ohio in the month of August, 1824, and
  located in Williamsfield Township, this county.  Mr. Peck's education was
  obtained at the primitive common schools of that day, his youthful days being
  divided between attending school and working on his father's farm.  His
  occupation has been, and is still, that of a farmer.  He has secured an ample
  competency to sustain himself and family.On the 13th day of April, 1837, Mr.
  Peck was married to Laura E., daughter of Laman and Ann Bartholomew, who
  resided in the adjoining township of Wayne.  He and his young wife began
  housekeeping on the farm now occupied by Monroe Rose, in Williamsfield
  Township, where he remained until April 1, 1849 when he removed to the
  township of Richmond, his present home.  The children of this couple are Sarah
  A., who was married to Andrew Wilson, ex-lieutenant, Company B, of the gallant
  old Twenty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Edwin O., Jr., married
  Adelaide Landon; Lemuel A. (died in infancy); Justis L., married Ophelia Turner;
  Milo C., is yet single and remains at home: Luella R., married J.T. Parker; Charlie
  E., single; Archie (died young); Dudley, the youngest of the family, was born in
  1864.  Of this large and interesting family, all, with one exception, reside in
  Richmond, Ashtabula County.  Edwin O., Jr., the "exception", resides in Oceana,
  Michigan.  Mr. Peck was elected as one of the county commissioners in the fall of
  1873, and was re-elected in 1875, along with other county officers, by one of
  Ashtabula County's rousing majorities.  He has been an efficient public officer,
  and performs the duties of his office honestly, intelligently, and promptly.  He has
  also held several offices in connection with Richmond Township, among which is
  that of justice of the peace, in which capacity he served fifteen years.  The long
  period for which he held the office is a well deserved compliment from the
  people.  Politically Mr. Peck is a member of the Republican Party.  His father,
  who is still living, resides with him, and has reached the ripe old age of eighty-five
  years.  The mother died in the year 1873.  Esquire Peck is a member of the
  Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, being a member of Relief Lodge, No.
  284, of Pierpont Township.  He was represented in the war of the great Rebellion
  by his two sons, D.B. and E.O., Jr. and two sons-in-law."