Thomas W. Peckinpaugh
Thomas W. Peckinpaugh was born in Pennsylvania, November 17, 1817. On his father's side he is of German extraction, on the mother's English. In 1821 his parents emigrated to Green township, when the subject of this sketch was but four years of age. His father was a farmer, and with him his son remained until he was twenty-one. He studied law in Wooster and was admitted to the bar in 1848. On October 18th of that year he married Jane E. Cotton, then began practice in Chippewa township. He filled several local offices and two terms in the Legislature.
From The History of Wayne County, Ohio, B. E. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, 1910