I 64 T53 HAZARD FAMILY 
     
     § 915. GEORGE WILLIAMS PECKHAM, 7 (Peleg, 6; Mary Hazard, 5; 
     
    
   
   
    
     Governor George, 4; Colonel George, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born in 
     
     Rhode Island, February 24, 1796; he married Mary, daughter of John Watson, 
     
     of Rhode Island. He died 1873. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHILDREN 
     
    

    
     I681. HENRY PECKHAM, born March 19, 1831; died Aug. 22, 1834. 
     
    

    
     1682. GEORGE WILLIAMS PECKHAM, born Aug. IO, 1832; died Aug. 4, 1833. 
     
    

    
     1683. MARY PECKHAM, born June 20, 1835; died May 5, 1840. 
     
    

    
     1684. ISABELLA PECKHAM, born March 7, 1838; died June 11, 1864. 
     
    

    
     1685. MARY PECKHAM, born Dec. 14, 1841; died March 14, 1843. 
     
    

    
     I686. ELIZA PECKHAM, born Feb. 8, 1843; died Oct. 10, 1871. 
     
    

    
     1687. GEORGE WILLIAMS PECKHAM, born March 23, 1845; married EZizaéat/y Giffara’. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1688. WILLIAM HENRY PECKHAM, born Jan. 19, 1847. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 917. WALTON HAZARD PECKHAM, M.D., 7 (Peleg, 6; Mary Haz— 
     
     ard, 5; Governor George, 4; Colonel George, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was 
     
     born in Rensselaerville, New York; he married Margaret A. Milderburger, Widow 
     
     of Robert Stuyvesant. He was a physican and practiced in New York City. 
     
     CHILDREN 
     
    

    
     1689. MARGARET AUGUSTA PECKHAM, born Aug. 1840; married Gaérie/ Mead Taoéer. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1690. WALTON MILDERBURGER PECKHAM, born April 28, 1842; married, Jan. 18, 1876, M. Lauire 
     
     C/Jembraugb. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 918. RUFUS W. PECKHAM, 7 (Peleg, 6; Mary Hazard, 5; Gov. George, 
     
     4 ; Colonel George, 3; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, I), was born in Rensselaerville, 
     
     N.Y., December 20, 1809. Soon after, his father removed to Otsego County. He 
     
     was early sent to Hartwick Seminary in the same county, and in 1825 entered 
     
     Union College; he graduated in 1827. Mr. Peckham went to Utica on leaving 
     
     college, and entered the office of Bronson and Beardsley as a law student. He was 
     
     admitted to the barin 1830, and opened a law—ofl'ice in Albany. He was engaged 
     
     as counsel in a large portion of the 'cases tried at the circuit, and having for his 
     
     competitors such men as Samuel Stevens, Marcus T. Reynolds and Henry G. 
     
     Wheaton, it is evident that it was no easy task to acquire prominence among 
     
     them. In 1838, when twenty— nine years of age, he was appointed by Gov. Marcy, 
     
     District Attorney for the city and county of Albany. The duties ofthis oflice, 
     
     he discharged both faithfully and ably. He continued in the office of District 
     
     Attorney until I 841, when the office was bestowed by Governor Seward on Henry 
     
     " G. Wheaton. In 1845 he was a candidate before the legislature, which then had 
     
     the appointment, for Attorney—General of the State. He had a formidable oppo- 
     
     nent 1n John Van Buren, and after a sharp contest was beaten by a single vote. 
     
     In the autumn of 1852, he was returned by the city and county of Albany as 
     
     representative to the Thirty -third Congress of the United States. 
     
    

    
     On the expiration of his congressional term he resumed the aétive practice of 
     
     his profession at Albany, having previously associated with him, as a partner, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lyman Tremain. In the spring of 1859, with health somewhat impaired, he made 
     
     a visit