John H. Peacock, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Tarrell Peacock, was
born in Grant County, Wisconsin, on June 10, 1874. He attended district schools in Grant County and high school at Elk Grove. Before moving to Prairie du Chien in 1901, Mr. Peacock worked as a barber at Wauzeka, Wisconsin.
For more than thirty years Mr. Peacock was a dealer in American pearls at Prairie du Chien. He served as mayor of Prairie du Chien from 1927 to 1929, and for the next three years served as chairman of the local bridge committee. He was instrumental in seeing this bridge over the Mississippi River completed in 1932. He was a charter member of the Prairie du Chien Chamber of Commerce, president of the Prairie City Bank, chairman of the Crawford County Highway Department, and president and manager of the Prairie du Chien Sanitarium Hospital.
Mr. Peacock married Addie B. Millspaugh in 1897. They had two children, Beulah M. Koecke and Loren John.
