My Genealogy Hound

THOMAS A. PEACOCK, a grand-nephew of Judge William Peacock, and a resident of Westfield, is a son of Thomas and Alice E. (Peacock) Peacock, and was born at Portland Harbor (now Silver Creek) in the town of Portland, Chautauqua county, New York, September 20, 1849. His paternal great-grandfather, Thomas Peacock, was a native of Ireland, where he learned the trade of weaver, and from there he came to central New York. Three of his sons were John, Absalom and Judge William Peacock, who was one of the early leading and prominent men of Chautauqua county, and whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. The first two named sons, John and Absalom Peacock, were the paternal and maternal grandfathers of the subject of this sketch. Thomas Peacock (father) learned the trade of tanner and leather currier at Pen Yan, this State, and followed the tanning business during the greater part of his life. He was an industrious man and a good workman and died in 1851. He married his cousin, Alice E. Peacock, who was a daughter of Absalom Peacock, and passed away in 1873. They had two children: Thomas A., and Frances, who died at fourteen years of age.

Thomas A. Peacock passed most of his boyhood at Westfield where he attended the Westfield academy. He then took the full course of Bryant and Stratton’s Business college and since leaving that well-known commercial institution has given his time principally to the management of his own private business and the supervision of his property at Westfield and in the city of Buffalo. Mr. Peacock erected a very fine modern brick residence at Westfield, which is valued at thirty-six hundred dollars.

He also owns a valuable farm of three hundred acres on the lake shore besides a large farm two miles west of Westfield which his aunt willed him at her death. He has valuable property in the city of Buffalo including some fine buildings in the Krenlin block besides an individual interest in several lots and buildings near and adjoining the Grand Trunk railway depot at the foot of Erie street. He has always supported his party in all of its leading measures, but his business interests have always been such as to demand the greater part of his time and attention.

In 1881, Thomas A. Peacock united in marriage with Alice M. Stanfield, and their union has been blessed with two children: William, born May 17, 1882, and Charles E., born July 3, 1884.