HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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to Dundee, bought a farm of 120 acres, which he devoted to the cultivation of small fruits, selling great quantities of raspberries and strawberries in Elgin for many years. Mr. Peck was one of the original promoters of the Elgin Packing Company, now one of the best paying institutions of the kind in the country. In 1874 Mr. Peck sold his farm and removed to Chicago, where he engaged in the wholesale milk business, and soon was commanding an immense trade on the west side of the city. After twenty-two years of unbroken success, in 1896 he sold out and removed to Savanna, Ill., where he bought a farm of 680 acres, and has since lived retired from active business. Mr. Peck was married Jan. 11, 1860, to Miss Amanda, daughter of James F. Padelford, formerly of Dundee Township, Kane County, and they have two sons-Frank I. and W. R.-both of whom are residents of Elgin.
GEORGE M. PECK, merchant, Elgin, Ill., born at Dundee, Ill., August 14, 1843, obtained his elementary education in the public schools of his native village, and later took a commercial course in Bryant & Stratton's Business College (Chicago). In 1861 he enlisted in the Fifty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he became Commissary Sergeant and served until 1864, when his term of enlistment expired. Beginning his business career as clerk in a dry goods store in Elgin, he has been actively engaged in the mercantile business in that city since 1868. Mr. Peck is a Director of the Elgin City Banking Company, and President of the Elgin Wind Power & Pump Company. He was married in 1877 to Miss Julia C. Chapman, of Elgin.
ORVILLE PECKHAM, lawyer, Geneva, Ill., was born in Newport, R. I., Oct. 30, 1846, and was graduated from Brown University in 1867. In the spring of 1872 he removed to Chicago, where he has been engaged in the practice of law. Since 1892 he has made his home in Geneva.
ORA L. PELTON, physician and surgeon. Elgin, Ill., born at Sherman, Chautauqua County, N. Y., in 1851; educated in the public schools and at the University of Michigan, graduating from the medical department of the latter institution in the class of 1872; graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York) in 1874; studied at the University of Edinburg, Scotland, during the year 1875; practiced ten years at Elburn, Ill.; has since been one of the leading practitioners of Elgin.
HOSEA E. PERKINS (deceased), retired farmer, Elgin Township, Kane County, was born Nov. 8, 1819, in Jefferson County, N. Y., but received his education in Lorain County, Ohio, whither his parents removed when he was seven years old. His residence was maintained in Ohio until 1841, when he removed to Kane County, Ill., where he worked on a farm and taught school for some three years. At the end of that period he bought a farm about three miles south of Elgin, which continued to be his home for the remainder of his life. In 1894 his health failed, and he afterward lived a retired and quiet life. For a number of years Mr. Perkins served as Supervisor and Assistant Supervisor of hid Township, and for twenty years was School Trustee. In 1849 he married Mary A. Bishop, who died in 1850, and three years later he married Elizabeth Hale, who became the mother of six children: Edson A., Harvey W., William M., Zilpha E., Albert G., and Mary E. Mrs. Elizabeth (Hale) Perkins died Jan. 11, 1868, and on June 6, 1869, Mr. Perkins contracted a third marriage, Anna J.
