(Excerpt from The Ashtabula Disaster
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Excerpt from The Ashtabula Disaster
The Nation of Feb. 15th says: By such disasters and by shipwreck are lives in these days sacrificed by the score, and yet except through the clumsy machinery of a coroner's jury, hardly any where in America is there the slightest provision made for inquiry into them.
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Stephen Denison Peet was an American archeologist and clergyman. He was also an author.
Background
Stephen Denison Peet was born on December 2, 1831 in Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. His father, Rev. Stephen Peet, was a pioneer missionary to the middle West, and was instrumental in establishing Beloit College, Chicago Theological Seminary and many churches in Wisconsin. His mother was Martha Denison of Stonington, Connecticut, and through her he traced his ancestery to Rev. James Noyes, a founder of Yale, Gov. William Codington of Rhode Island, Anne Hutchinson, George Denison, colonel of Cromwell's army and a famous Indian fighter, and to John Howland and Elizabeth Tiley of the Mayflower. His boyhood and youth were spent in Wisconsin, then a frontier territory. In accompanying his father on missionary tours, Stephen Denison Peet had his interests aroused in Indian life and the relics of the mound builders, an interest which remained with him throughout his long life.
Education
Stephen Denison Peet was graduated from Beloit in 1851 with the degree of A. B. which was followed in 1890 by the degree of Ph. D. He was in Yale Divinity School, 1851 - 1853, and in 1854 graduated from Andover Theological Seminary.
Career
Stephen Denison Peet returned to the West, where for 40 years he had pastorates in various Congregational and Presbyterian churches in Wisconsin, Ohio and Illinois. Dr. Peet's interest in archeology led him in 1878 to found the American Antiquarian, the first journal of its kind, and he continued as its editor and publisher for 32 years. Among his associates in this journal were Dr. Daniel G. Brinton of Philadelphia, J. Walter Fowkes of Washington, Dr. Charles S. H. Davis of Meriden and Prof A. H. Sayce of Oxford, Eng. Dr. Peet was the author of a series of volumes upon the mound builders, Indian relics, cliff dwellers and kindred topics, and of many pamphlets and articles.
Dr. Peet's later years were spent with his sons and daughters in Chicago and in Salem. He died on May 24, 1914.
Stephen Denison Peet was a member of the American Antiquarian Society, of the New England Historical and Geneological Society, of the Numismatic Society of New York, of the Davenport Academy of Sciences, of the Society of Biblical Archeology and of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain.
Connections
Stephen Denison Peet was twice married. His first wife was Katherine Moseley, his second, Olive Walworth Cutler. He had eight children.