1899. Illustrated. George Wilbur Peck was a journalist and a politician. He was the editor of various newspapers in Wisconsin and New York. His most successful was the humorous newspaper Peck's Sun. He was well known for letters from his fictional Irish character Terence McGrant, office seeker and a distant cousin of President Grant. He published several compilations of his humorous newspaper essays and stories. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.