Frederick Coffin PEACH
Biography

FREDERICK COFFIN PEACH— An outstanding figure in the present day activities in Berkshire County is Frederick Coffin Peach, who is prominent as a leader in financial circles and represents the internationally famous firm of Kidder, Peabody & Company in this district. Mr. Peach is a man of definite and tested ability, and in his steady rise to his present prominence he has won countless friends.

The Peach family is an old one in the State of Massachusetts, having been represented in this colony as early as 1649. John Peach, who was born in 1612, settled in Marblehead in 1648, where he died in 1679. In direct descent of the pioneer line. General Benjamin F. Peach, Mr. Peach's father, was a noted figure in military affairs of the State of Massachusetts for many years. In the Civil War he served in every service of the 8th Massachusetts Infantry through the grades of first sergeant, first lieutenant, adjutant and colonel. After the war he was active in the Massachusetts National Guard as colonel of the 8th Infantry and as brigadier-general of the 2d Brigade, retiring in 1897 with the rank of major-general. Mr. Peach's mother was Lucy Adelaide (Coffin) Peach, the only daughter of Colonel Frederick J. Coffin, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who was also a commander of the 8th Massachusetts Infantry in Civil War service.

Frederick Coffin Peach was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, October 17, 1880. His education was begun in the public schools of his birthplace, and he was graduated from the Lynn Classical High School in the class of 1899. His first business affiliation was with the present business concern of Kidder, Peabody & Company, leading bankers of Boston and New York. He was with this firm as a clerk in their Boston office until the year 1915, then coming to Pittsfield and establishing his own business, but continuing his affiliation with Kidder, Peabody & Company as their correspondent in Western Massachusetts. He has won the unqualified respect of all who are familiar with his activities, and is widely recognized as a man of lofty integrity and sound judgment. He is a director of the Berkshire Morris Plan Company, and the Pittsfield Industrial Development Company; he is vice-president of the Pittsfield Anti-Tuberculosis Association, and is affiliated with various patriotic and civic organizations, including the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Sons of the American Revolution, the Country Club, the Park Club, and the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Rotary Club, serving as its president in 1923. Mr. Peach attends the Unity (Unitarian) Church, and he has been president of this parish since 1919.

Frederick Coffin Peach married (first) Dora Holman, of Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1909, who died in 1919, leaving two children: Sally, born in 1911, and Louise, born in 1913, and both of whom attend Miss Mills private school. Mr. Peach married (second), in 1921, Mrs. Mary (Gimlich) Humphrey, daughter of the late Jacob Gimlich, a member of an old and respected Pittsfield family. Mr. and Mrs. Peach are the parents of one son: Frederick B., born in 1923. Mrs. Peach has one child by her former marriage, Ernestine Louise Humphrey, born in 1907.

Source: Western Massachusetts; a history, 1636-1925
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