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John Mason Peck was born on October 31, 1789 in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. He was the son of Asa and Hannah (Farnum) Peck. He was the descendant of Paul Peck who probably emigrated to Massachusetts in 1634 and removed to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636.
His father's poverty and lack of health, kept John Mason Peck busy on the farm, and he attended school only a few winter terms.
John Mason Peck was licensed to preach at Windham, New York, in 1811 and was ordained in 1813. After about five years in New York pastorates his interest in missions led him to preparatory study for the service under William Staughton of Philadelphia. In 1817 with James Welch he established the western mission at Saint Louis; when this was closed in 1820 he remained in the West. In 1822 as missionary of the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society he moved to Rock Spring, Illinois, where he acquired and cultivated a half-section of land to supplement his appropriation of five dollars a week. Reading as he rode his horse, enduring hunger and cold as part of his routine, he traveled constantly through Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. To undermine the opposition to missions that he encountered everywhere, he established Bible societies and Sunday schools and by frequent visits kept them alive. Wherever possible he examined schools, the majority of which he considered worse than useless, and he placed good teachers where he could. In 1827 he helped to establish Rock Spring Seminary, the main purpose of which was the training of teachers and ministers. It was soon moved to Upper Alton.
In 1835 John Mason Peck raised $20, 000 in the East for the institution, half being obtained from Benjamin Shurtleff of Boston, for whom the seminary was renamed Shurtleff College. Peck remained a trustee until his death. A religious periodical, the Pioneer, was established at Rock Spring under his editorship in 1829, continuing there or at Upper Alton until 1839, when it was merged with the Baptist Banner at Louisville, Kentucky. He became editor of the Western Watchman in 1849. In the meantime his reports and articles were making him known as an authority on the West, and he was led to compile his Guide for Emigrants, which appeared in 1831 and again in 1836 and 1837. The first edition of his Gazetteer of Illinois (1834) ran to 4, 200 copies. It was revised in 1837.
In collaboration with John Messinger, John Mason Peck prepared a sectional map of Illinois, published in 1835. The Traveller's Directory for Illinois appeared in 1840. He wrote a Life of Daniel Boone (1847), in 1850 edited a revised and enlarged edition of the Annals of the West that had been published in 1846 by James H. Perkins, and wrote Father Clark or the Pioneer Preacher (1855). His large library burned in 1852, but his first sources were his own observations, noted copiously in his diary while he traveled and amplified by a large correspondence and by interviews.
John Mason Peck took little part in Illinois politics except an unsuccessful candidacy for the constitutional convention of 1847 - 1848. He was active in the colonization society but deplored the efforts of the extreme abolitionists. His criticism of Lovejoy and the abolitionists compelled him to defend his attitude toward the tragedy of Lovejoy's murder. Peck favored the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law and in January 1851 preached a sermon on the subject in the State House at Springfield, The Duties of American Citizens (1851). In 1841 and 1842 he acted as agent for the Western Baptist Publication Society and from 1843 to 1846 as secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society. Peck held a pastorate in Saint Louis in 1849 and in Covington, Kentucky, in 1854, after which the failure of his health made necessary his return home. He died at Rock Spring on March 14, 1858.
John Mason Peck was distinguished person. As a clergyman, he was best known as one of the founders of the First Baptist Church of St. Louis, the first Protestant church in the city. As an educator, Peck was famous as the founder of Shurtleff College (now the Southern Illinois University at Alton Dental School).
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John Mason Peck was a man of many remarkable qualities, robust in intellect, strong in purpose, positive in his opinions, and bold in their advocacy,
On May 8, 1809, John Mason Peck married Sarah Paine of Greene County, New York. They had ten children. With the birth of the first of their ten children both became doubtful of paedobaptism, and soon afterward they left the Congregational for the Baptist Church.
