Ralph Erksine Peasley


Captain Ralph Erksine Peasley "Captain Matt" is a sea captain from the Pacific Northwest who became famous due to a popular series of short stories by Peter Bernard Kyne called .

Family life

Peasley was born to Henry Clay Peasley a civil war veteran and Elizabeth Rose of Jonesport, Maine in 1866. He left home at age 14 to learn seamanship. At age 22, he captained his first ship. He came to Seattle, Washington about 1888.
In 1903, he married Emily Burrows "Burrie" Dalton, daughter of Captain James Dalton.
Peasley died in 1948.

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