Pease, Calvin, D.D., an eminent Presbyterian minister (O. S.), was born in Canaan, Conn., Aug. 12,
1813. lie graduated at the University of Vermont in 1838, became a teacher in Montpelier, and professor of Greek and Latin in the University of Vermont in 1842. He held this post until 1855, when he was ordained to the ministry, and appointed president of the university. In 18(')1 he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Kochester, N. Y.. and died on a visit to Bur- lington, Sept. 17, 1SG3. His scholarly culture was wide, yet thorough ; and both in the university and in his parish he measured fully up to the demands of duty. He published several Sermons, and contributed a num- ber of articles to the Bihliotheca Sacrc/. See Wilson, Pi-esb, Hist. A linunac, 1864, p. 188 ; Ap])leton's A nnual Cyclop. 1863, p. 737, AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. A uthors, vol. ii, s. v.
Pease, Ebenezer, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Georgia, Franklin Coun- ty, Vt., Sept. 9, 1802. At the age of fourteen he was converted, and soon after united with the Methodist Church, and became a bright example of youthful piety. He received a license to exhort in 1823. His first local preacher's license was granted in 1826. In 1845 he joined the Black liiver Conference, and successively served the following charges : Brasher and Massena, twoj-ears; Chateaugay, two years; Heuvelton and Ue- peyster, two years; Jlassena, two years, Lisbon, one year; Bangor, two years; next, and last, Hopkinton. He served all of these charges with great acceptability and profit to his people. He was a clear, instructive preacher, and a faithful pastor. A few years previous to his death he was afllicted with what was supposed to be softeidng of the brain. His mental attentiun to re- ligious and teralioral affairs entirely failed him, so that he had to be treated as a child. He died at Lawrence- ville, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1873. See Minutes oj' Annual Conferences, 1874, p. 72; Smith, Me- morials of N. Y. and N. Y. East Conf. p. 226.
Peck, Francis, a learned English divine, noted es- pecially as an industrious antiquary, was born at Stam- ford, in Lincolnshire, May 4, 1692. He received his preparatory education in his native town. He after- wards went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of B.A. in 1715, and M.A. in 1727. In 1723 he was presented to the rectory of Godeby Maure- ward, in Leicestershire; and in 1736 he received a pre- bendal stall in the cathedral of Lincoln. He died in 1743. His principal works are. The Antiquarian An- nals of Stamford, in Lincoln, Rutland, and No7-thampfon Shires (Loud. 1727, fol.) : — Desiderata Cwiosa, the first volume of which was printed in folio, London, 1732, fol- lowed by the second in 1735, both reprinted in 4to in 1779: — .4 Catalofjue of all the Discourses written both for and ac/ainst Popery in the Time of Kiny James II (Lond. 1735, 4to) : — Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Oliver Cromwell (1740, 4to) : — Xein Memoirs of the Life and Poetical Works of John Milton (1740, 4to). He also published some sermons and discourses. His first publication was To i''i//oc uyiot', or an Exercise on the Creation, and a Hymn to the Creator of the World; written in the express Words of the Sacred Text, as an A tlempt to show the Beauty and Sublimity of the Holy Scriptures (1716, 8vo). See Chalmers, Bioyr. Diet. xxiv, 235 ; Alliboue, Did. of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, vol. ii, s. V. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliogr. vol. ii, s. v.
Peck, George, D.D., a noted minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Clnn-fh, one of the iiioneers in American Methodism, and a most valued leader in the literary de- partment of this branch of the Wesleyan body, was born in jVIiddlefiekl, Otsego County, New York, August 8, 1797. His parents were from Danbury. Connecticut, descendants of sturdy Puritan stock. His mother was gifted with a strong mind and possessed great force of character; site was emineiuly )iious and devulional, which coustitute<l her a remarkable woman in her relig- ious and social infiuence, and enabled her to give all her i five sons to the Methodist ministry. His father was a
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