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     a Visit to Europe. On his return he was immediately nominated and soon after 
     
     elected a Justice of the Supreme Court, by a decided majority over his very able 
     
     and popular opponent. He brought to the bench excellent qualities. Well read 
     
     in the law and familiar with the practice of his profession, he dispatched the 
     
     business of the circuits with rapidity and ability. But more, and most ofall, he 
     
     brought there an ingrained honesty of purpose,——a determination to mete out, 
     
     without fear or favor, equal and exa& justice to all men. At the close of his 
     
     first judicial term of eight years, Judge Peckham was re—eleé‘ted without oppo— 
     
     sition, no candidate being named against him. Before the close of his second 
     
     term he was elected a member of the Court of Appeals. Thus, after his first 
     
     elevation to the bench, his life flowed on in a smooth, unbroken current to its 
     
     sudden close. 
     
    

    
     Judge Peckham’s true individuality, aside from his intellectual life, was exhib— 
     
     ited in the warmth and intensity of his affections, and his genius for making 
     
     himself beloved by all. His friendships were not only strong and enduring, but 
     
     they were the genuine outgrowth of a generous nature.‘ 
     
    

    
     Judge Peckham was lost with his Wife, in the steamer Ville de Havre, on the 
     
     amt of November, 1873. 
     
    

    
     He married, first, Isabella, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Lacey, rector of S. Peter’s 
     
     Church, Albany. She died young, leaving two sons. His second wife, Mary 
     
     Foote, was with him on the Ville de Havre. They had no children. 
     
    

    
     CHILDREN OF THE FIRST MARRIAGE 
     
    

    
     1691. WHEELER HAZARD PECKHAM, married Amine K5415}. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1692. RUFUS W. PECKHAM, married Harriet Arnold of New York.2 
     
     1693. HENRY PECKHAM, died young. 
     
    
   
   
    
     §926. MARTHA HAZARD, 7 (George, 6; Mayor George, 5; Governor 
     
     George, 4.; George, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born January 9.5, 1782; 
     
     married Marlborough Stanton. He died December 2, 183 5. 
     
    

    
     CHILDREN 
     
    
   
   
    
     1694.. GEORGE STANTON. 
     
     I695. ALBERT STANTON. 
     
    
   
   
    
     §927. BRENTON HAZARD, 7 (George, 6; Mayor George, 5; Governor 
     
     George, 4.; George, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born January 15, 1784.; 
     
     he married Ann G. Childs, of Bristol, Rhode Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHILDREN 
     
    

    
     1696. WILLIAM WANTON HAZARD, born March 11, 1810; died 1837. 
     
    

    
     I697. MARTHA B. HAZARD, born April 26, 1812; died tirm 1880; married, Sept. 25, 1842, 
     
     Charla; Crane. 
     
    

    
     1698. ELIZA HAZARD, born June 7, 1816 ; married Wi/éar. 
     
    

    
     I699. MARY STANTON HAZARD, born May 7, 1829 ; died 1850; unmarried. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     I Condensed from, “In Memory of Rufus W. Peckham,” prepared by a committee of the Bar of the State of New York. 
     
     3 Rufus W. Peckham is now (1894) Judge of the Court of Appeals in Albany, N. Y. § 
     
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