BIOGRAPHIES

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CENTENNIAL HISTORY of ERIE COUNTY, OHIO
By H. L. Peeke
President of The Firelands Historical Society
Publ. 1925

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HEWSON L. PEEKE.  In the publication of this work, the writer of the following has been associated with Hewson L. Peeke, not in the preparation of the historical data but in attending to the strictly business details oaf getting out this history of Erie County.  The history would not be complete without some recounting of the activities of H. L. Peeke, of his record as a lawyer, and his service to humanity generally.      Mr. Peeke has been a resident of Sandusky since December, 1883.  He was born in South Bend, Indiana, April 20, 1861.  A part of his youth was spent in the City of Chicago, where he was graduated from high school in 1878.  He took his collegiate work in Williams College from where he was graduated in 1882, and in the following year on account of ill health he went out to Dakota Territory.  His experiences in gaining admission to the bar of the territory and his subsequent law studies after locating in Ohio have been recounted on other pages.  Mr. Peeke was admitted to the Ohio bar January 7, 1885, and at once took up practice at Sandusky.  It can be said with truth that few lawyers have had a larger and more profitable practice than Mr. Peeke in Sandusky.   He has attended to the legal business with a scrupulous care that has gained him the esteem not only of a large circle of clients but of the fellow members at the bar.  His standing in the profession was given an unqualified testimonial when he was chosen as the prohibition candidate for the Supreme judgeship of Ohio.  There were fourteen candidates for the three seats to be filled on the Supreme bench, and Mr. Peeke stood third in the size of the vote case in Erie County.  It is with proper pride that he cherishes as a memento of his campaign a testimonial of confidence which was signed by thirty members of the county bar, in fact all but two.      Mr. Peeke is a man of varied interests and attainments.  He has always been interested in things literary, and particularly in history, and it was his enthusiasm for local history and his desire to do something to preserve in permanent form the records of Erie County that led to his taking up the work represented in this publication.      Politically, he has for more than thirty years been identified with the prohibition party.  In fact, he cast his first ballot for the prohibition ticket in 1885.  He has always advocated the idea that the platform of the party should be confined to prohibition, and has consistently urged that principal in both the state and national council of the party.  He was first candidate for the office of judge of the Supreme Court on the prohibition ticket in 1891.  In 1900 he was a candidate for presidential elector.  In 1902 he was a candidate for Congress in the thirteenth Ohio District.  He was chosen grand chief templar of the Ohio Grand Lodge of Good Templars in 1902.  In 1901 he formed the Cornerstone Publishing Company in order to publish the Ohio state prohibition paper.  At the Akron State Convention he was both permanent and temporary chairman in 1901.  He has served a number of places on the state and national committees of the prohibition party, and in 1912 became a member of the national committee, a delegate at large to the national convention, and was chairman of the state committee.  He was also permanent chairman of the prohibition state convention at Springfield in May 1903, and was chairman of the State Central Committee in the years 1905-06-07.  He was temporary chairman of the Ohio State Convention at Columbus in 1908.  In 1904 he was a delegate at large from Ohio to the Indianapolis convention and a delegate from Ohio to the national convention at Columbus in 1908. (E. H. M.) Source: Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio Vol. II - 1925 - Page 387

Jos. G. Pyle

JOSEPH G. PYLE, JR.  One of the younger members of the bar is Joseph G. Pyle.  He was born on Mar. 4th, 1890, at St. Paul, Minn.  His father, Joseph C. Pyle, since the death of James J. Hill, has had charge of the organizing and running of the Hill Reference Library established at St. Paul for specialized reference work.  His mother's maiden name is Lizbeth Arvilla Lewis.      The junior member of King, Ramsey, Flynn and Pyle was educated at Washington and Lee University, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1910, and received his degree as Bachelor of Law in 1912.  He was admitted to practice law in Virginia in 1912 and in Ohio in 1914.  His statement gives no explanation of what caused him to leave home and go so far for his education but whatever the cause he got his education.      He came to Sandusky in 1914 and immediately became associated with the firm of King, Ramsey, Flynn and Pyle, with whom he has since been connected.      He has been very active in corporate matters.  In college he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta, College Fraternity.  Since graduation he has joined the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of Science Lodge, No. 50; the Masonic Order; the Sandusky City Council No. 26; Sandusky City Chapter No. 72; Erie Commandery No. 23; and Miami Lodge of Perfection.  He is secretary of the Sunyendeand Club, and a member of the Plumb Brook Country Club.  In church associations he is an Episcopalian.      On Aug. 29, 1917 at Sandusky, Ohio, he married Helen W. Gallup, daughter of Frank M. Gallup, and granddaughter of Mozart Gallup, who was for many years a prominent citizen of the city of Sandusky.      They have two children, Hermoine Frances Pyle, and Joseph G. Pyle, III.      Mr. Pyle is a pleasant and agreeable companion, a good lawyer, a man who understands the companionship of books, a good husband, a kind father and deserves all the respect that his friends give him. Source: Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio Vol. II - 1925 - Page 360

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