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Elijah Peake
Monona County
A native of Herkimer County, New York and was born January 6, 1819. His father, Eleazer Peake, was of Old Puritan stock. He was the ninth child, and the only living son in a family of eleven children born to his parents, made his .home beneath the parental roof until he was some twenty-three years of age, moving with the family in childhood, to Monroe County, in the same State, and received an excellent education. He remained in resident of the Empire State engaged in farming. In 1848 he was appointed warden of the State Penitentiary at Auburn, N. Y., in which capacity he served until 1852. In 1866 he came West and settled in Onawa, purchasing the Onawa House, the pioneer hotel of that village. At the same time he was engaged in running the livery stable in the same place, and carrying on a farm, where he paid great attention to stock interests. In appreciation of his abilities, he was nominated in the fall of 1867 to the office of County Judge, and elected over one of the most popular men in the district, Charles E. Whiting. He filled the position for a term of two years, to the satisfaction of the people, and with credit to himself. In 1878 Mr. Peake, was elected to represent this district, then consisting of the counties of lda, Crawford and Monona, in the Lower House of the Seventeenth General Assembly. In all the political movements of his time, he has taken considerable interest, and his influence in the councils of his party, has made itself felt at all times. In Cayuga County, N. Y., on the 8th of February, 1842, Judge Peake and Mrs. Angeline Hunt, the latter also a native of the Empire State, were united in marriage. He was a member of the Congregational Church.
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