Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, August 2, 1877
Marriage
LOVERIDGE - ALCOCK: In St. James Church, Hammondsport, N.Y. [Steuben Co.], July 31st, 1877, by Rev. O.R. Howard, D.D., Rector of St. Thomas Church, Bath, N.Y., assisted by Rev. H.V. Gardner, Rector of St. James Church, Hammondsport and Rev. J.T. Cushing, Miss Ellen Alcock of Hammondsport to Rev. D.E. Loveridge, Rector of Emmanuel Church, Norwich, N.Y.
Deaths
TILYOU: At the residence of Edward Malloy, in North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], July 30th, Mrs. Esther Tilyou, aged 88 years.
GIFFORD: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], July 29th, Mrs. Lucy Gifford, widow of Abner Gifford, aged 95 years.
SWEET: At the County House in Preston [Chenango Co. NY], July 27th, of consumption, Mr. Ambrose Sweet, aged 50 years, formerly of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY].
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 1, 1877
Death
Lincklaen, Chenango Co. NY: Mrs. Joshua Sanders who has been very feeble for years with a disease that has baffled the skill of physicians, died July 30th and was buried at Burdick Settlement the 22d.
News Item
There was a very pleasant gathering of "ye old folks" at the residence of J.H. Latham, Esq., in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], on Saturday afternoon and evening last, to celebrate the ninety-first birthday anniversary of his mother, the venerable widow of Henry B. Latham, formerly of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY]. Five ladies greeted Mrs. L. upon this occasion all of whom were upwards of seventy, and the combined ages of the six was upwards of four hundred and fifty years. Three or four other ladies were invited who from temporary infirmity were unable to be present. Those who accepted the invitation were all hale and hearty and with pleasure they spent the hours in rehearsing the battles of their youth, for though they are of the weaker sex their battles were no inconsiderable ones, for they were all pioneers. Mrs. Latham bears her four score and ten years lightly and, in her bearing and walk vies with the misses of sixteen in her erect posture, elasticity of step and clearness of intellect, and she bids fair to reach five score. That she may be thus spared is the wish of her many friends.
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 4, 1877
Marriage
SHELDON - BACON: In Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], July 29, at the residence of the bride's father, by Amon F. Smith, Justice, Fred Sheldon to Janie Bacon, both of Pharsalia.
Deaths
RACE: July 31st of typhoid pneumonia, Mr. Smith Race, aged 71 years.
WILSON: On Thursday afternoon a child of Herbert E. Wilson, proprietor of the brick yard, and residing on South Broad Street [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], met with a frightful accident from scalding and which it is feared may prove fatal. A large bucket of hot water had been placed near the kitchen stove to be used in cleaning the floor, when the child, a boy aged two and a half years, in playing about the room, in a backward movement lost his balance and sat down in the pail of water. The screams of the child at once brought assistance, but dread damage had been inflicted. The child was stripped as quickly as possible but with the clothing came the skin from a considerable portion of the little fellow's back and other parts of the body. To aggravate the sufferings, perhaps in the attempt to extricate himself, the child took hold of the hot stove, the fingers of both hands being burned. Medical assistance was promptly called and everything possible is being done for the relief and recovery of the child. People cannot be too careful about leaving or setting buckets or tubs of hot water in rooms where small children are at play and should take warning from the sad accident here recorded.
Since the above was in type we learn that the child died during Thursday night from the shock, some twelve hours after the accident.
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George W. Peck
The Auburn Advertiser [Cayuga Co. NY], gives the following particulars touching the death of the editor in chief, together with a short sketch of his life. The paper states that he was born in Chenango County, Bainbridge [NY] was his birth place where many friends now reside.
Most of the readers of the Advertiser are doubtless already aware of the death of its editor-in-chief, George W. Peck, and the lamentable circumstances attending it, but they are not aware of a long succession of painful disease which preceded it, and which ultimately unseated his reason and superinduced the paroxysm which terminated so fatally. He had been more or less afflicted with organic disease for upwards of a dozen years, but they did not assume a dangerous and painful form until last December. He then received frequent medical treatment from Dr. George and in February he went to Clifton Springs to under the water treatment. While there he submitted to an exceedingly painful surgical operation. After a sojourn of about two months at that sanitarium and obtaining some slight apparent relief, he returned to Auburn greatly reduced in flesh. From that time forward his strength rapidly failed, and he manifested frequent aberrations of mind. He seemed to have a clear appreciation of his disordered intellect and a premonition of a fatal termination.
On Tuesday night last, he left home in company with Dr. George to consult Dr. Hammond of the city of New York upon his mental and physical condition, and to obtain some relief, if possible, at some of the watering places upon the seashore. He passed a sleepless night down the river and reached the St. Nicholas Hotel in a very nervous condition, Dr. Hammond advised a visit to the seashore. They proceeded on their way to long Branch where on Friday the first open attempt at self-destruction was made. Dr. George had but just turned his back on his patient when he tried to terminate his life by severing an artery in the neck with a small penknife. The doctor discovered his intent before any important vessels were harmed and took the knife from him.
After he had recovered his reason, he stated that he was laboring under a terrible delusion (which he explained to the Doctor) and thought he could not live through it. Dr. George thought it best to return at once, and telegraphed Mrs. Peck and son to meet them at Albany on the arrival foo the boat. On the journey home he was very uncommunicative and the hallucination that his wife and friends were about to imprison him in an iron cage seemed to possess his mind.
The party reached home on Saturday, and notwithstanding the utmost vigilance of his family, Mr. Peck almost immediately managed to obtain possession of a revolver which was in his library and shot himself through the head, inflicting a wound which proved fatal in about two hours.
Mr. Peck was born in the county of Chenango, N.Y., October 18th, 1820. He was the son of the late Hezekiah and Martha Peck, of that county, and left his home at the age of fourteen to learn the trade of a printer. In the year 1848 he came to Auburn and worked as a journeyman with his present partner, in the office of Henry Oliphant. He continued to work at the cases in that office until about the year 1849, when in connection with Oscar F. Knapp he purchased the Auburn Daily Advertiser and Weekly Journal of the assignee of Henry Montgomery and commenced business for himself.
In August of 1848 he married Miss Alma L. Rose, of Cortlandville, by whom he has four children, three of whom survive him - two sons and a daughter.
In March of 1861, in connection with his business partner, he purchased the Auburn Daily and Weekly Union, and consolidated the same with the Journal and Advertiser. Ever since the purchase he has been the responsible editor-in-chief of the paper, and promulgated to his readers the moral, social, religious and political principles and sentiments which have distinguished the paper from all others published in this locality, and with which our readers are familiar. Latterly he has performed but little editorial labor, having left that department chiefly to the management of his two sons.
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