PEACOCK, Thomas Brewer, poet., born in Cant-bridge, Ohio, 16 April, 1852. He was educated in Zanesville, Ohio, and for about ten years was associate editor of the Topeka, Kansas, " Democrat." He has made and patented several inventions, the most important of which is a fire-escape specially adapted to large hotels. He has published " Poems" (Kansas City, 1872); "The Vendetta, and other Poems" (Topeka, 1876) ; "The Rhyme of the Border War" (New York, 1880); and "Poems of the Plains and Songs of the Solitudes" (1883). The last volume reached a 3d edition in a year, and is being translated into German by Karl Knortz.