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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 437
very probably have attained much higher political and professional
honors than his career in Erie County has afforded.
Earl C. Krueger is a young lawyer born in Berli% Township, who
has recently entered the office of George C. Steineman. His friends in
the east end of the county speak Avell of him, and he has already Avon his
first common pleas case.
John F. McCrystal Avas born June 22, 1863, at Kelley's Island.
His parents moved to Sandusky in" 1864, and his education Avas received
in the Catholic schools of Sandusky. He Avas appointed deputy clerk
of courts, and while holding that office began the study of law in the
office of Arthur Phinney, and Avas admitted June 18, 1889. He has not
been an office holder, except that he served tAvo terms as city solicitor
of Sandusky. While an ardent Catholic, he is liberal in his respect for
the opinions of others. He has devoted most of his energies to personal
injury suits, in which he has been successful. He has ahvays been a
hard tighter for his clients and has a high standing at the bar.
Claude J. Minor is a young laAvyer Avho has recently been admitted
to the bar and has already won his first case in the common pleas and
court of appeals, .for Avhich he deserves considerable credit. He has
not furnished the author with any biographical facts, which AA'ill account
for the meagerness of this sketch.
The following sketch Avas Avritten by Hon. Curtis T. Johnson, of
Tolei'.o: Mr. HeAvson L. Peeke, of Sandusky, presents one of Erie
County's most intellectual, rugged and forceful citizens. His father
came from Dutch colonial stock in NeAV York State, and his mother from
Hie A\ ell-known family of Benedicts, from Avhich have sprung generations
of men eminent in that state. Mr. Peeke has for years been a leader at
the bar, noted as Avell for Avide and accomplished scholarship as for
resourcefulness and success in the practice of his profession, being ever
ready to reinforce and enliven his discussion by quotation and incident,
ahvays at command in inexhaustible variety.
Mr. Peeke Avas born April 20, 1861, at South Bend, Indiana. He
graduated from a high school in Chicago in 1878, and received his
degree at graduation from Williams College in 1882. Some traditions
which still linger in that institution of learning tend to the belief that
his career at alma mater AA'as not altogether devoid of lively incidents
not laid doAvn in the curriculum. After leaving college he Avas admitted
to the bar in South Dakota in 1883, but soon moved to Ohio, Avhere in
1885 he Avas admitted to the bar of that state. From that time he has
lived in Sandusky and has become a familiar figure in the state and
federal courts.
In politics for more than a generation Mr. Peeke has been a prohibitionist.
In 1891 and 1914 he was a candidate for the Supreme Bench
of Ohio. In 1902 he ran on the prohibition ticket for Congress. He is
a member of the state and national committees of the prohibition party^
being noAV chairman of the state executive committee. hi^wrtflTc and
private life for the entire time of his residence in OJiioJhe^as aggressively
and consistently advocated the cause of prohibition. He took this posi-