Abel Peckham

Son of Joshua and Sarah (Stetson) Peckham, originally of Westerly, Rhode Island.

ref. History of Green County, Wisconsin. Springfield, IL: Union Publishing Co., 1884.

pp. 707-708

Abel Peckham came to Green county in 1851 and bought a farm of Lathrop Abbott, on section 26. He then returned to New York State, and remained until the following year when he came back, bringing his family with him, and settled upon his farm. There was a log house on the place, into which they moved and lived in until 1856. In that year he erected a commodious brick house, in which he lived until his death in 1864. He was born in Grafton, Rensselaer Co., N.Y., in 1798. He was reared upon a farm, and in his youth learned the cooper's trade. He was married in 1820 to Ada Brown, who was born in Petersburg, Rensselaer Co., N.Y., in 1800. In 1822, they moved to Trenton, Oneida county, where he worked at his trade until 1852 [sic, 1832?], then moved to Chautauqua county, and purchased land and cleared a farm, living there until 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Peckham were the parents of eleven children, ten of whom are now living--Sally W., who was born in Rensselaer county; Rhoda D., John F., Nelson A., Winfield S. and Ada, born in Oneida county; Joshua, Obadiah, Lucy J., Polly R., and Halsey, born in Chautauqua county.

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