US Congressman, Medical Doctor, Entrepreneur. He was a United States Representative from the State of Ohio. He was born one of ten children as Erasmus Darwin Peck to Daniel Peck Jr. (179-1828), and his wife Persis Ladd (1775-1854), in Stafford, Connecticut, on September 16, 1808. He was educated locally and attended the local common public schools of Munson, Massachusetts, before deciding to study medicine in 1824. He then attended the medical lectures at the prestigious medical department of Yale College (later Yale University), in New Haven, Connecticut, beginning in 1826, and graduated from college in 1827. He then moved to Portage County, Ohio, in 1830, and began practicing medicine, before moving to Perrysburg, Ohio, in 1834, where he continued with his practice of medicine for many years. While living in Perrysburg, Ohio, he also became involved in the selling of dry goods, millinery, farming, and the pine and lumber business, and at one time was also the owner and operator of a planing mill. He then took an interest in politics and was elected and served a term as a Member of the Ohio State House of Representatives from the Wood County District from January 7, 1856, to January 1, 1859. He was preceded in that post by Addison Smith and succeeded in that post by William S. Wood. During the American Civil War, he was appointed the Examining Surgeon for the United States Army and Pensions. He then decided to run for a term in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the late United States Representative Truman Harrison Hoag (1816-1870), to fill the vacancy caused by his death on February 5, 1870. A Member of the Republican Party, he then finished out United States Representative Truman Harrison Hoag's (1816-1870), term representing the 10th District (Forty-First Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from February 5, 1870, to April 23, 1870, at which time he was elected to a new term representing the Forty-Second Congress. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served Ohio's 10th District (Forty-First Congress and Forty-Second Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from April 23, 1870, to March 3, 1873. He did not seek renomination in 1872. Following his second term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Charles William Foster Jr. (1828-1904), on March 4, 1873. In total, he was elected to finish out United States Representative Truman Harrison Hoag's (1816-1870), term to fill the vacancy caused by his death on February 5, 1870, and was reelected to another term on April 23, 1870, which he served until March 3, 1873, and he did not seek renomination in 1872. After leaving the United States Congress, he returned to his practice of medicine in Perrysburg, Ohio, which he continued until his death on December 25, 1876, at the age of 68. He passed away at his home from complications relating to paralysis in Perrysburg, Ohio, on December 25, 1876, at the age of 68. Following his death, his funeral services were held with many friends, family members, and colleagues, in attendance, and following the funeral services he was buried in Fort Meigs Cemetery in Perrysburg, Ohio. He was married to Mary Ann Lincoln Peck (1808-1873), in Portage, Ohio, on December 22, 1832, with whom he had one child, Henry Elisha Peck (1838-1897). His wife Mary passed away in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 1873, at the age of 64, and she is also buried in Fort Meigs Cemetery in Perrysburg, Ohio. He was married second to, Euphemia Todd Robertson Peck (1822-1915), in Waterloo, Ohio, on September 24, 1874, and they were together until his death on December 25, 1876, at the age of 68. The couple had no children together. His wife Euphemia survived him and she passed away in Waterloo, Iowa, on June 16, 1915, at the age of 92, and she is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Waterloo, Iowa.