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Thomas Ephraim Peck was born on January 29, 1822. He was the son of Ephraim Peck, a native of Connecticut who had moved South on account of his health and opened a small mercantile establishment in Columbia, and Sarah Bannister (Parke), a daughter of Thomas Parke, professor of the classic languages in the College of South Carolina. The father died when Thomas was ten years of age, after which event the mother lived with her father till his death in 1840.
Prepared for college by his mother, and afterwards by John Daniel in the Male Academy of Columbia, Thomas Ephraim Peck graduated from the College of South Carolina, with distinguished honors, in his eighteenth year.
Feeling that he was called to the ministry, Thomas Ephraim Peck studied, while acting as College librarian, not in the Presbyterian Seminary in the town, but under the personal direction of James Henley Thornwell, a Presbyterian minister, then professor of metaphysics in the college, who exercised a controlling influence over Peck's mental and spiritual development. He was licensed by the Charleston Presbytery in 1844, preached for several months to the Salem and Jackson churches in Fairfield County, South Carolina, then for a year as temporary supply in the Second Presbyterian Church of Baltimore. In 1846 he became pastor of the Broadway Street Church, an offshoot of the Second Church, and in 1857, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of Baltimore.
In 1855 - 1856 Thomas Ephraim Peck collaborated with Rev. Stuart Robinson in publishing the Presbyterian Critic and Monthly Review, a paper designed to maintain strict Presbyterian views in polity and doctrine, in which are found many of his characteristic views. In 1859 he was elected professor of ecclesiastical history and church government in Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He declined the call, but when it was tendered him again in 1860 he accepted it, feeling that impaired health was unfitting him for the pastorate.
Thomas Ephraim Peck published one small book, Notes on Ecclesiology (1892), and a number of articles which, with unpublished sketches and notes, were edited by T. C. Johnson and printed under the title, Miscellanies of Rev. Thomas E. Peck (3 vols. , 1895 - 1897). Peck held that the Bible was the inerrant Word of God, an absolute rule of faith and practice, to which nothing should be added except by good and necessary inference. He believed that Presbyterian doctrine and polity were clearly set forth in the Scriptures, and that the traditionary beliefs and practices of the Church, being Scriptural, should be maintained. Many who did not know him well thought that he was severe and cold; friends who pierced his reserve, however, found him warmhearted and affectionate, albeit possessed of strong and unyielding convictions.
Thomas Ephraim Peck suffered a marked decline of health in 1892, and in October of the following year died of Bright's disease and attendant complications on October 2, 1893.
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On October 28, 1852, Thomas Ephraim Peck married Ellen Church Richardson, the daughter of Scotch parents, herself a stanch Presbyterian. She bore him seven daughters, three of whom died in infancy and one in early womanhood. Three of his daughters married clergymen.
