In the 1900 census, he gave a birthdate of July 1858, age 41, and had been married 3 years. He and his parents were born in New York. He was a day laborer, and had been unemployed 1 month the previous year. He could read and write, and owned his house with a mortgage.10

Assigning children is difficult. He could have adopted Carrie’s kids (they had the Peck surname in the 1900 census), or these could have been Mary’s, but that wouldn’t account for Carrie’s counting having had 6 children. I’ve assigned them to Mary for now.