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 222 PEOHT PECQUET large herds and very ferocious when attacked ; this goes by the name of warree. PECHT, Friedrich, a German painter, born in Constance, Baden, Oct. 2, 1814. He studied in Munich, was employed in Dresden and Leipsic, and perfected his art in Paris under the direc- tion of Delaroche. He returned to Germany in 1841, and resided in Italy from 1851 to 1854, when he settled in Munich. He has published S&dfruehte (2 vols., Leipsic, 1854), and Die KumUchatze Venedigs (Trieste, 1858), and ex- ecuted paintings in the style of Delaroche. PECK. I. George, an American clergyman, born in Middlefield, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1797. He united with the Genesee conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1816, and in 1824 was appointed presiding elder of the Sus- quehanna district. He was principal of the Oneida conference seminary from 1835 to 1840, when he was elected editor of the "Quarterly Review " and of the books of the general cata- logue of the Methodist book concern ; and he was editor of the " Christian Advocate and Journal" from 1848 to 1852. From 1858 to 1872 he was a presiding elder in the Wyoming conference. He was for 57 years an effective preacher, has been a member of every gene- ral conference since 1824, is high authority in the ecclesiastical law of his church, and was a member of the evangelical alliance in London in 1846. He now (1875) resides in Scranton, Pa. He has published " Universalism not of the Bible;" "Rule of Faith" (1844); "History of the Apostles and Evangelists;" "Christian Perfection;" "Reply to Dr. Bascom on Sla- very ;" " Manly Character : Lectures to Young Men" (1853); "Wyoming, its History and In- cidents" (1858); " Early Methodism within the Bounds of the Genesee Conference " (1860) ; " Our Country, its Trial and its Triumph " (1865) ; and " The Life and Times of George Peck, D. D., written by Himself " (1874). II. Jesse Truesdell, an American clergyman, broth- er of the preceding, born in Middlefield, N. Y., Aug. 14, 1811. He was licensed as a local preacher in 1829, and in 1832 joined the Oneida conference. From 1837 to 1841 he was principal of the Gouverneur Wesleyan seminary, and from 1841 to 1848 of the Troy conference academy at West Poultney, Vt. From 1848 to 1852 "he was president of Dick- inson college, and was afterward pastor of the Foundry church, Washington, D. C., till 1854, when he was appointed secretary and editor of the tract society of the Methodist Episcopal church. After a pastoral term in the Green street church, New York, he was transferred to California, where he labored eight years as pastor and presiding elder. After his return to the east he was pastor in Peekskill, Albany, and Syracuse, N. Y., till 1872, when he was elected bishop. He was one of the founders and first president of the board of trustees of Syracuse university, and now (1875) resides in Syracuse. He has been five times a member of the general conference, and a fraternal dele- gate to the Canadian and East British confer- ences, lie has published " The Central Idea of Christianity;" "The True Woman, or Life and Happiness at Home and Abroad " (1857) ; "What must I do to be Saved?" (1858); and "The History of the Great Republic, consid- ered from a Christian Standpoint" (1868). PECK, John Mason, an American clergyman, born in Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 31, 1789, died at Rockspring, 111., March 15, 1858. He received a limited education, and in 1811 removed to Greene co., N. Y. He was licensed to preach in 1812, was ordained at Catskill in 1813, and from 1814 to 1816 was pastor of the Baptist church in Amenia, Dutchess co. In May, 1817, he was set apart as a missionary of the Bap- tist general convention to the west, went to St. Louis, and for the next nine years was an itinerant missionary in Missouri and Illinois. In 1826 he secured subscriptions in New Eng- land and New York to found a literary and theological seminary at Rockspring, giving the lands for it, and he was principal of it in 1830-'31. In April, 1829, he started "The Pioneer," the first Baptist journal published in the west, which he maintained for 10 or 12 years. In 1831, in connection with the Rev. Dr. Going, he originated the American Bap- tist home mission society. In 1832 he pub- lished " The Emigrant's Guide," which led to extensive emigration to Illinois and other north- western states, and began the publication of a monthly Sunday school paper. In 1834 he published a " Gazetteer of Illinois." In 1835 Shurtleff college was founded by his exertions at Upper Alton, 111., and the Rockspring sem- inary transferred to the new institution. Mr. Peck during the year travelled 6,000 miles, and raised $20,000 for the endowment of the college. His next effort was for the establish- ment of a theological seminary at Covington, Ky. In 1843-'5 he resided in Philadelphia as corresponding secretary and general agent of the American Baptist publication society, and for the next 1 3 years was a pastor in Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky. During this period he wrote a life of Daniel Boone for Sparks's "American Biography," and edited the "An- nals of the West." He left a journal, which with his correspondence and a memoir was edi- ted by Rufus Babcock under the title "Forty Years of Pioneer Life " (Philadelphia, 1864). PECOS, a S. W. county of Texas, formed in 1871, separated from Mexico on the south by the Rio Grande, and bounded N. E. by the Pecos river; area, about 11,500 sq. m. It is supposed to contain valuable minerals, but has been little explored. The valleys contain some good farming land, but the county is best adapted to grazing. Capital, Fort Stockton. PECQUET, Jean, a French anatomist, born in Dieppe about 1620, died in February, 1674. He studied at Montpellier, and while still a student made the most important anatomical discovery of his life, namely,, the true course of the lacteal vessels. He found that the me-