The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-23
Prof. Peck
 Suicide In
 Stamford
Former Member of Columbia Faculty Shoots Himself
 Through Head.

Stamford, March 23-Harry Thurs ton Peck, a former professor of Co., lu1nbia University. committed suicide at roomfng house in Bell street here today by shooting himself in the head with 8 revolver.
 Prof Peck has been in il health for several months. He came to Stamford from his home at Riverside about 10 days ago and engaged 1odg- ings at the rooming house The 1andlady found him dead there today with a bullet hole in his head and the police have taken charge of the body. The circumstances of his suf- eide are not known.
 Prof. Peck was born in Stamford Nov ember 24. 1856, the son Of Harry and Harriet Peck. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1881. He studied in Paris, Rome and Berlin and had many degrees from foreign and Am erican colleges. He was professor Of anthropology at Columbia univer- sity from 1904 to 1910, editor Of The Bookman from 1895 to 1907, literary editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser from 1897 to 1901.
 He was a. member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Aca- demy Of Political Science, National Geographical society, Phi Betta Kappa and Royal society of Canada. the Gem tury and Faculty clubs of New York and the Stamford Yacht club. He formerly resided at 46S Riverside Drive in New Y ork city.
 Peck was a writer of note and for 28 years was professor of ancient Languages at CoIumbia University. He laft tf1o institution more than three years ago in consequence of unpleas- ant notor1ety incident to a. breach against him by Esther Quinn, a stem ographer. Shortly after the filing of the suit Dr. Peck filed 9 voluntary petition in bankruptcy He gave his assets as $2e0.
 Tn March. 1s1 Miss Quinn's suit was dfsn1issed as insufficient. Later she filed another aetf ons nich was bending at the time of his death.
 Dr. Peek dropped ont of sight after his retirement from Columbia and dtd ! not come before the public eye until April last, when he became i'll. His life was despaired of until his 1 divorced wife; Mrs. Cornelia B. Peck. Christian Scientist, came to the hos pital and nninistered to him. The second Mrs. Peck found no ob- lection to the nninistrations of the divorced wife In fact. they worked l The second Mrs. Peek was Miss Eliza beth Dubois of Philadelphia.
 As far back as 1910 Prof Peck had a. sharp controversy with Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, over the authorship of certain Latin addresses. Peck charged that Dr. Butler proposed to deliver in Berlin as his own an address in Latin that Peck wrote pr. Butler subsequently, admitted that this was true. and was | quoted in dispatches from Berlin as
 saying that the preparation of such
 matter was part of the professor,s
 duty and that there was mo secret
 about it.
 l 1856 and was educated in this coun- l on Latin and the classics.
 Prof Peck had been in i'll health for a considerable period A year ago 1 this spring he was in a hospital in Ithaca, N- F., in dire straits from men tai breakdown and his first wife, Mrs. 1 Corne1ia Dawbarn Pack, went to him and brought him to her cottage in Sound Beach, near here Through the summer she nursed him, and in the fall he had so far recovered mental tstrength and bodily vigor as to be able to resume literary work He spent the fall in Ridgeheld and-retuFn- T ed last winter to Riverside. also near here. continuing his literary work Mir. Peck had shown signs of rest less and and had come to this citt55
 and taken rooms. and returned te Sound Beach for short intervaR II was at his room in Bell street apart.
 me11t house that he killed himself thi.
 afternoon. Persons in the hous. lheard the report and found the body A revolver was in Prof. Pecks hand.
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