Background
Peake, Elmore Elliott was born on March 25, 1871 in Decatur, Ohio, United States. Son of Thomas DeWitt and Lida (Vail) Peake.
Peake, Elmore Elliott was born on March 25, 1871 in Decatur, Ohio, United States. Son of Thomas DeWitt and Lida (Vail) Peake.
Educated at various places in Ohio, and at Janesville, Wisconsin.
Private secretary to M. H. McCord, Medical Corps, 1890-1892. Same to superintendent telegraph, Richmond & Danville Railroad (now Southern), 1892-1893. Later with Central of Georgia Railroad, in similar capacity.
Has been writing fiction since January, 1896.
Author: The Darlingtons, 1900. The Pride of Tellfair, 1903.
The House of Hawley, 1905. The Little King of Angel’s Landing, 1906.
Editorial writer Chicago Evening Post, since 1917.
Home: 221 North. Kensington Avenue, Louisiana Grange Illinois‡.
Married Bonnie Grace Thompson, of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, October 8, 1907.