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class of 1876) records the birth of their grandson as "Born, August, 1914, a grandson George
Peckham Gross, to Bessie Gifford Peckham", unfortunately several months after the death of his grandfather and apparent namesake George W. Peckham. In later years, Elizabeth M. Gifford-Peckham is recorded as living with her daughter Mary Peckham Gross, whose children were "a comfort and joy to her".
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Elizabeth Maria Gifford were married in 1880. In an obituary (in 1940), their daughter Mary Peckham Gross writes of her parents marriage that "it was one of those perfect marriages of minds as well as hearts". Long before that, in 1914, a notification to Vassar alumnae (for
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