New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-14
Miss Marian Wheelock, 40,
Won His Heart by Her
Business Ability.
LAWYERS WIFE DIED
ABOUT A YEAR AGO
He Was Founder of Harvard ADJ
yOcate"-Planned to Sur-
prise Friends.

Westfeld. y. j.. June lS.-William Globs
Peckham. a New York attorney. wealthy
and founder of THE Harvard Advocate.
the Oldest literary magazine OF the Ameri-
can universities. Is to he married this
month Il was announced to-day. His
bride will be Miss Marian Wheelock' OF
Rutherford, y. j.
The announcement was surprise to
Mr. Peckham's friends. as every effort
was made by the lawyer to keep the af-
fair secret until after the ceremony. 1t
was not until all the arrangements for
the wedding, which will probably take
place here, were made that the fact that
Mr. Peckham contemplated second
matrimonial venture became known. His
first wife died about a year ago.
The following statement was given out
to-day by Mr.. Peckham:
THE marriage of william G. Pcckham
and Miss Marian Wheelock, daughter OF
Francis II. Wheelock, formerly mer-
chant of Boston, will shortly take place.
Mr.. Wheelock is a descendant Of Eleazer
and is well, known to Harvard men as
having managed the Wheelock dormi-
tory at Cambridge in behalf OF his family,
the owners
"Mr Peckham is sixty and Miss
Wheelock is about forty. Miss Wheelock
is an accomplished musician and was for
some time a pupil Of Arthur Foote. Har-
ha
Neither Miss Wheelock nor Mr.. Peck
ham would state to-day when the cere-
mony will take place, other than that it
would be soon
Mr.. Peckham was born at Newport, r.
l., and is a member OF a family that has
long been prominent in that state. At the
age of fourteen he entered Harvard, and
for years was known as the youngest
scholar at the university.
Upon being graduated from Harvard
Mr.. Peckham studied three years abroad.
then came to New York to spend another
year studying law at the New York Uni
versity. Later he read law in the office
OF Joseph Fl. Choate, and was admitted
to practise in 1870
A few years later Mr.. Peckham won
fame. When the Northampton (Mass)
Bank was robbed of securities valued at
the time at about $4,000, but which were
subsequently said to be worth as much
as $2,OO0,00O Mr.. Peckham was retained
by the bank to prosecute persons who
had received the stolen property and to
defend the bank In suits brought against
it by those who had suffered in the rob-
berry. In every instance he was success
full.
He first became acquainted with Miss
Wheelock about five years ago. He met
her frequently on matters pertaining to
business transactions, and was attracted
by the capable manner In which she con-
Quoted the affairs of her employer.
The Harvard Advocate" which Mr..
Peckham founded during his student days,
is still fourisnng paper, and has a lit
erary quality which is unexcelled by any
other college publication 1t was to
launch a protest against compulsory at
tendance at chapel by students who used
the period for an extra forty winks" in
the mornings that developed the journal
stic fervor in NJ. Peckham.
Among the executors OF THE Advo-
cate" are Theodore Roosevelt, Richard
Washburn Child, Arthur Train, Robert
Herrick, Edward Sheldon, Charles NJ
Flandeau, Wtter Bynner, Arthur Ruhl,
Arthur Page and William h. Wander
bilt, jr
Mr.. Peckham's first wife, to whom he
was married June /, 1875, was Miss Laura
Thurston.
1t is understood that Mr.. Peckham and
his bride will pass their honeymoon either
at Mr.. Peckham's lodge in the Rockies or
abroad. Besides laree country home on
Hillside av. In this town, where he has
lived several years. he has a winter home
in Florida.
Although he has retired from active
practice, he still has a law Office at 30
Church St, New York. He also is n men,
Der of the following clubs in Manhattan:
Harvard, Players, Railroad, National
Arts, Lawyers and Salmagundi.