When James Stanley Peck was born on 6 June 1864, in New Britain, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, James Gorman Peck, was 33 and his mother, Rebecca Smalley Clark, was 32. He married Frances Lloyd Davis on 5 May 1886, in Harwinton, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Belchertown, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1920. He died on 5 March 1937, in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 72, and was buried in New Britain, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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In 1868, the State of Connecticut gave the Navy 112 acres of land along the Thames River. This became the location of the Naval Submarine Base. It was designed to hold 1,400 men and 20 submarines. During WWII it was expanded to 497 acres.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: variant of Speake , with loss of initial S- (or perhaps vice versa).
English: variant of Peak .
English: perhaps occasionally a variant of Petch , itself a variant of Peach .
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