William H. Peck
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[edit] Professor William Henry Peck
A successful southern novelist and writer.
Born in 1830 in Augusta, Georgia he moved with his father Colonel Peck in 1843 to the Indian River Colony in Central Florida. He later wrote descriptively about this area and his meeting with early pioneers such as lighthouse keeper Miles Burnham of Cape Canaveral in the Florida Star Newspaper in 1887. He graduated from Harvard in 1853 and his writing career took off with submissions to Robert Bonner's New York Ledger where it was reported he was paid $5000 for stories for this publication. William Peck earlier served as Professor of History at Tulane University of Louisiana and later moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he started "The Georgia Weekly". He later retired to the home of his youth in Merritt Island, Florida. Professor Peck died soon after his wife in 1892 in Jacksonville Florida and is buried in Fulton County in Atlanta Georgia. A notable quote from one of his May Day ovation is "To the pure all things are pure".
Professor Peck published over seventy-five books (mostly novels)making him the most prolific American writer of his age. Some of these books include:
The M'Donalds; or, The ashes of southern homes. A tale of Sherman's march. (37)
Published "The Confederate flag on the ocean. A tale of the cruises of the Sumter and Alabama." (38)
Wild Redburn, an Indian Tale
In May of 1887 he wrote story in the Florida Star about Gilbert's Bar. A very descriptive account of his teen years about the early pioneers of the Indian River area.
Published The Fortune-teller of New Orleans. (59)
Published Siballa the sorceress; or, The Flower Girl of London. (60)
Published The Executioner of Venice, a novel. (62)
Brackets () in this article is the age of WH Peck.
