Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-02-15
HERMAN A. PECK
IS STRICKEN DEAD
A Land Mark as Hackman
Here Suddenly Taken
Suffered Shock While Driving From
Station to College With
Passenger.

In the same way that his wife was
stricken dead only a little more than
a year ago, Herman A, Peck, who
for more than twenty years has been
one of the most familiar figures on the
streets of Middlebury, suffered fatal
shock this week,
He was, on Tuesday afternoon, driv-
ing from the station to the college with
a woman as passenger, and had just
passed over the Main street bridge
when Mark Turner, who was in Rieh's
store, noticed that Mr., Peck had drop
ped his reins and that they were drag
ging under the horses feet, He ran
out and stopped the horse, and recover
ed the reins In the meantime Mr.. Peck
had fallen from his seat to the bottom
of the sleigh. Turner drove him at
once to Dr., Stanton S. Eddy's Office
where it was determined that he had
suffered a stroke of apopleXy. Mr.
Peck was practically unconscious. He
remained at the doctors Office from
two to o'clock when he was removed
to his home at No, Z Elm street, near
the railroad station.
Though he did not regain his con-
sciousness he lived for more than As
hours, dying shortly after six o'clock
on Wednesday evening. On November
10, 1916 his wife, who was Margaret
Manning of Cornwall and Middlebury,
was stricken even more suddenly, She
and Mr., Peck were on the evening of
that day entering the Town Hall to
witness a moving picture show when
she complained Of feeling terribly i'll,
She was removed to her home in an
automobile and died within two hours,
She and Mr. Peck had been married
November s, 1887, and in the thirty
years since had occupied the Peck
home on Elm street
Mr.. Peck was the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Monroe Lewis Peck who
for many years had lived on farm in
Cornwall and who had in their latter
days lived with their son here, up to
the time of their death about eight
or ten years ago.
Mr.. Peck's father had for many years
kept the weather records for The
Register, end Mr. Peck himself had al
ways been interested in keeping this
up. Mr.. Peck had number of years
ago been Town Liquor Agent under
the old prohibitory law, but during the
later years of his life had carried on
the business of hack driving. Day and
night he had travelled the streets of
Mddlebury for so many years that
he was widely known among those
came and went, and he had large
number of friends in the community.
He was seventy years old, having
been born in Cornwall November s,
lS4S. He is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. William H. Nichols OF Plainfield,
n, j., and Mrs. Hattie A. Goss of East
Hampton, Conn. Mrs, Nichols and her
husband arrived here Wednesday even
ing about half an hour before Mr..
Peck died.
Mr.. Peck had, after his wife's death,
continued to live in his own home,
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Brown having oc-
cuppied the house and provided for
him.
Mr.. Peck and his wife had been
idetied prominently with the Meth
odist church, he having been a trustee
for many years,
The funeral will be held at the
Methodist church tomorrow (Satur-
day afternoon at O'Clock, The
burial will be in the East Cornwall
cemetery.