Peach, Samuel Higgins Hamilton

Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1852
Full name
Samuel Higgins Hamilton Peach
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Siblings
6
Family
Samuel Peach (father), Caroline Hamilton Peach (mother), John Peach (brother)
Education
Dickinson (Carlisle College)
Occupation
Military
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
Slaveholder
Military
Confederate Army

Samuel Hamilton Peach (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
Samuel Peach was born in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on March 14, 1831. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a junior in 1850 and received his bachelor of arts degree in 1852. Peach was an active member of the Belles Lettres Literary Society as a student. After graduation he moved to Lumpkin, Georgia and set up a law practice after being admitted to the bar there.

When the war erupted, Peach was commissioned as a colonel in the Confederate States Army. He died in Lumpkin on July 3, 1862.
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Samuel Hamilton Peach,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/p/ed_peachS.htm.
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