Edward C. Peters
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| image = Edward C. Peters.jpg
| caption = Peters (right) with his wife Helen (middle) and father Richard (left)
| birth_name = Edward Conyngham Peters
| birth_date = {{birth date|1855|10|22}}
| birth_place = Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1937|02|01|1855|10|22}}
| death_place = Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
| education =
| alma_mater =
| occupation = Real estate developer
| party =
| parents = Mary Jane Thompson Peters
Richard Peters
| spouse = {{marriage|Helen Wimberly
|November 19, 1878|1936|reason=her death}}
| children = 2
| relations = Richard Peters (brother)
Ralph Peters (brother)
Nellie Peters Black (sister)
Richard Peters (grandfather)
}}
Edward Conyngham Peters (October 22, 1855 – February 1, 1937) was an Atlanta real estate developer. He was the son of Richard Peters, a founder of the city.
Early life
Peters was born on October 22, 1855, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was one of nine children born to Mary Jane (née Thompson) Peters (1830–1911) and Richard Peters (1810–1889), a railroad executive who was one of the founders of Atlanta. Among his siblings were Richard, Ralph, president of the Long Island Rail Road, and Nellie, who also became prominent.{{cite news |title=RICHARD PETERS DEAD {{!}} Brother of President of Long Island Railroad Dies in Philadelphia |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/05/27/109804999.pdf |accessdate=30 September 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=May 27, 1921}}
His paternal grandfather was Richard Peters, a reporter of Decisions to the U.S. Supreme Court, and his great-grandfather was Continental Congressman Richard Peters, a Pennsylvania jurist. His maternal grandfather was Dr. Joseph Thompson, an early settler and doctor.{{cite book |last1=Black |first1=Nellie Peters |title=Richard Peters, His Ancestors And Descendants. 1810-1889 |date=1904 |publisher=Atlanta, Foote & Davies |url=https://archive.org/details/richardpetershis00blac |accessdate=30 September 2018}}
Career
In 1889, upon his father's death, Edward inherited Richard's land, railroad and trolley interests.{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr//travel/atlanta/pet.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820103433/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/pet.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 20, 2008|date=2008-10-14|work= Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary|title= Edward C. Peters House|publisher=National Park Service}} He operated a real estate firm known as Peters Land Co., founded in 1890, and was a member of the Atlanta City Council, and donated the land for Peters Park in 1887.
He sold off the land for the development of what is now the southern half of Midtown Atlanta (below 8th Street, as far west as Atlantic St. on the Georgia Tech campus, to Argonne St. east of Piedmont).{{cite book |last1=Garrett |first1=Franklin M. |title=Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events |date=1969 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=9780820302638 |page=255 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fl6xNpS6qUUC&q=%22edward%20c.%20Peters%22&pg=PA255 |accessdate=1 October 2018 |language=en}}
Peters also served as president of the Atlanta Savings Bank, the Exposition Cotton Mills, and was one of the organizers of the Fourth National Bank in Atlanta.
Personal life
On November 19, 1878, Peters was married to Macon native, Helen Wimberly (d. 1936), the daughter of Ezekiel Wimberly and Mary Victoria (née Holt) Wimberly.{{cite book |last1=Jordan, LLD |first1=John W. |title=Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II |date=1911 |publisher=The Lewis Publishing Company |isbn=9785880233557 |pages=1116–117 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Br0SAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1116 |accessdate=1 October 2018 |language=en}} Together, they were the parents of:
- Wimberly B. Peters (1885–1948), who married Lucille Kuhrt.{{cite news |title=Wimberly Peters Dies at the Home; Rites Wednesday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/397894848 |accessdate=1 October 2018 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |date=March 10, 1948 |page=19 |language=en}}
- Edna Peters, who died in infancy.
His wife died at their home in June 1936 after five years of illness.{{cite news |title=MRS. EDWARD C. PETERS PASSES AT RESIDENCE {{!}} Death Follows Illness of Five Years; Was All Saints Member |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/384674864 |accessdate=1 October 2018 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |date=16 June 1936 |page=22 |language=en}} Peters died on February 1, 1937, in Atlanta and was buried at Westview Cemetery.{{cite news |title=EDWARD C. PETERS DIES AT RESIDENCE {{!}} Pioneer Civic and Business Leader Noted for Land Gifts to Atlanta |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/384720249 |accessdate=1 October 2018 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |date=February 2, 1937 |language=en}}
=Residence=
{{main|Edward C. Peters House}}
Peters' residence, the Edward C. Peters House, built in 1883 and designed by architect G. L. Norrman in the Queen Anne style, on the southwest corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Piedmont,{{cite book |last1=Social Register Association (U.S.) |title=Social Register, Richmond, North Carolina, Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta 1922 {{!}} Vol. XXXVI, No. 18 |date=1922 |publisher=Social Register Association |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fvIxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA209 |accessdate=1 October 2018 |language=en}} is now used by the Savannah College of Art and Design and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
References
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External links
- {{find a Grave|109496536}}
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