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| | Rufus Wheeler Peckham |
 | | PECKHAM, Rufus Wheeler, jurist, born in Rensselaerville, Albany County, New York, 20 December, 1809; died at sea, 22 November, 1873. |
 | | In 1870 he was chosen to the court of appeals, of which he was a member at the time of his death. |
 | | Owing to impaired health, he sought the climate of southern France, and was lost at sea in the "Ville de Havre."--His son, Wheeler Hazard, lawyer, born in Albany, New York, 1 January, 1833, was educated at Albany academy, and at Union, which he left owing to impaired health. |
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