came to Cook County in 1833 and passed the winter at an Indian trading post at Riverside, then known as Laughton's Place. The next spring they settled on Mr. Peet's present farm, which contains 197 acres. His father died in 1852, aged sixty-one years; his mother, in 1849. aged fifty-one. Mr. Peet married, in 1849, Mjss Abby J. Hewitt, daughter of Robert and Betsey Hewitt. They have had ten children, seven now living Franklin, Edwina C., Robert E., William E., Louise, Edward L. and Emma M He is a member of Vitruvius Lodge, No. 81, A. F. & A. M. He has been twenty years a member of the school board, and served four years as Justice of the Peace.