Peach, John

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Class of 1854
    Full name
    John Peach
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    8
    Family
    Samuel Peach (father), Caroline Hamilton (mother), Bettie Howe Wellford (wife, 1870)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Other
    Other Education
    University of Maryland Medical School
    Occupation
    Farmer or Planter
    Doctor, Dentist or Nurse
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Methodist

    John Peach (Dickinson Chronicles)

    Scholarship
    John Peach was born in the family home "Ash Grove" near Mitchellville, in Prince George's County, Maryland on April 18, 1835, the son of Samuel and Caroline Hamilton Peach. He prepared at a private school nearby and entered the class of 1854 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1852. He was the youngest in the class but a fine student and a member of the Belle Lettres Society. He graduated with his class and enrolled at the University of Maryland Medical School, earning his M.D. in 1858.

    He returned to Mitchellville and built a large and successful practice that he attended continuously for almost forty years. After his retirement, he turned to farming at his home, "Forest Place," adjoining "Ash Grove."

    John Peach had married Bettie Howe Wellford of Culpepper, Virginia on February 27, 1870. The couple had eight children; five sons and three daughters. John Peach died after a lingering illness in early December 1925 and was buried at the Mount Oak Cemetery in Mitchellville. He was ninety years old.
    John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “John Peach,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/p/ed_peachJ.htm.
    How to Cite This Page: "Peach, John," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6366.