Frederick Peick,
merchant and grain and stock dealer, Littleport, was born
in Germany, Nov. 18, 1822. His parents were Christian and
Cecelia (Curtscue) Peick, the former a native of Hanover,
Germany, the latter of Fontainebleau, France. They died
in Germany, The subject of this memoir was educated in
the land of his birth, and there learned the carpenter's
and piano- maker's trades, which he followed for thirteen
years in Paris and other cities of Europe. He came to the
United States in 1849, working five years in Baltimore,
and locating in Clayton County, in 1854. He joined the
"community" which settled in Volga Township,
and worked at the carpenter's trade and farming four
years, then came to Littleport. He purchased a farm here,
and also engaged in the mercantile business, disposing of
the latter three years later. He was then employed by the
Government as carpenter at St. Louis and Little Rock one
year and a half. Since that time has engaged in the
mercantile business in Littleport. Mr. Peick has been
twice married, first in 1848, to Dorta, daughter of
Gottlieb and Mary Gartener, natives of Hanover, Germany.
Mrs. Peick died, having been the mother of two
children—Mary, born March 8, 1850, married John
Meyer, and Christian, born Aug. 8, 1853, died July 12,
1880. For his second wife Mr. Peick married Mrs. Sophia
Wagoner, by whom he has had three children— Carl,
born Jan. 3, 1870; William, Jan. 5, 1880, and Sophia, in
March, 1881. Mrs. Peick had two children by her first
husband, viz.: Minna, born Oct. 9, 1854, married John
Liddy, and Fred, born in 1860, is now attending college.
Mr. Peick has held the office of Township Supervisor one
year, and that of Postmaster fifteen years. source: History of Clayton
County, Iowa, 1882, p. 751 |
