JACOB L. MCPEEK

"History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan" - 1880

J. L. MePeck is a native of Madison, Guernsey Co., Ohio, where he was born on the 4th of May, 1848. He was the fourth child in a family of six children; his father, Samuel McPcek, being a native of the same State, and of BelmontCounty, where he was born in 1809; his mother, nee Miss Mary Gartrall, being a native of Maryland, where she was born in 1816.

In 1853, the subject of our sketch being then a mere lad, the family removed to Michigan and located at Grand Ledge. The country being new, the usual experience of pioneers was theirs, and all the attending privations, withthe many pleasures, known only to those who have seen the change from the home in the woods, crude and rough, to one surrounded with all the advantages of civilization.

Mr. McPcek passed the first nineteen years of his existence at his father's house and on the farm. He then went to school at Lansing one term, and the following winter at the Leoni Institute one term, and in 1871 began the studyof law. After a few months he opened a real-estate office in Grand Ledge, and prosecuted this business in connection with his studies until 1875, when he was admitted to the bar. Since that time he has made the law a profession, and has also been quite actively engaged in political matters.

He was the second recorder elected in the village of Grand Ledge, which office he filled for two years. He has also been village trustee, justice of the peace, etc. In 1878 he was elected State senator from his district(the Fifteenth Senatorial), which position he fills with ability.

He married, in 1874, Miss Inez De Groff, a native of Huron Co., Ohio.Mr. McPeek is young in years, congenial, cultured, and refined,-possessing the confidence of the community in which he lives. The future is full of promise for him.