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  • Elijah Peacock
    Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Elijah Peacock Founder of the House of Peacock, February, 1837"
  • C. D. Peacock
    Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Elijah Peacock came here in 1837 and engaged in his trade of Jeweler and Watch Repairer, a calling that had already descended through three generations, following the English custom, and which his son, Charles (C. D.), who was born in 1838, and who has been one of our leading men in that line, tells me will be continued indefinitely, as the mantel is slipping fro...