BRIEFER ARTICLES 
CHARLES HORTON PECK 
(WITH PORTRAITS) 
Dr. CHAartes Horton PEcK, for many years Botanist of New York 
State, died at his home in Menands, New York, on July 11, 1917. He 
suffered a light stroke early in November 1912. A severe one in the 
spring of 1913 rendered him incapable of further work. Soon after 
this he presented his resignation 
as State Botanist, but it was not 
accepted by the Regents of the 
University of the State of New 
York until January 26, 1915. A 
testimonial minute was recorded 
at the time by the Regents, citing 
Dr. Prck’s valuable services to 
the state and to science by his 
conscientious and untiring labors. 
Dr. Peck was greatly depressed 
early in 1912 by the death of his 
wife, and by the news that the 
herbarium would have to be 
moved from the Old Agricultural 
Hall to the new quarters in the 
State Education Building. 
He was born at Sand Lake 
(now called Averill Park), New 
York, March 30, 1833. 
graduated from the State Normal School at Albany in 1852. He 
then taught for three years in Schram’s Collegiate Institute at Sand 
ake. He entered Union College, Schenectady, in 1855, and gradu- 
ated in 1859. He resumed his teaching at the Collegiate Institute 
in Sand Lake for three or four years. In 1862 or 1863 he was appointed 
teacher of Latin and Greek in the Albany Classical Institute, known 
more popularly as Cass’s Institute, as it was presided over by Amos Cass. 
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