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Edward was young boy when the family removed to Schaghticoke, New York. Schaghticoke was a small town a few miles above Troy. His father had a saw mill there.
He was educated in the district schools of New Hampshire and New York, where his opportunities for schooling were limited.
Edward returned to Wilton, New Hampshire where he wroked in his father's saw mill
Then he went to work for his uncle Abial Pevey in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Edward then managed a restaurant for a short while in Boston. Later he was proprietor of a stall in the famous Old Fancuil Hall Market. He left Bost and went to Marlboro, Massachusetts where he was a proprietor of a restaurant.
When the Civil War was over, Edward went to Worcester and established a meat market at 39 Exchange Street. His success was good and his business became large. Edward was the first of the family to locate in Worcester.
Dr. B.M. Pevey and Dr. Charles K. Pevey came to Worcester a fews year later and started Pevey Brothers, Dentists. They were located at 244 Main Street. Edward Pevey moved his market to Southbridge Street. He became connected with the firm of White, Houghton & Co. at 16 Front Street. In 1874 the firm was known as White, Pevey & Dexter and the organized pork packers. This business became very successful and their trade went throughout New England.
In 1890 the company was incorporated and moved to a location on Bridge Street. The abbatoir located on Putnam Lane and was one of the largest and best of its kind in New England. A few years later the company was sold to Swift & Co. of Chicago.
After the sale of the company, Mr. Pevey retired from active business and made his home at the Bay State Hotel.
The business ability and common sense, integrity and good nature of Edward Pevey won for him a leading position among the business men of the city.
He was an active Mason and well known in the Masonic fraternity of the state. He was a member of Montacute Lodge, Eureka Royal Arch Chapter, the Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar, of which for twenty-six years he was the standard bearer. He was a charter member of the Worcester Continentals and was on the colonel's staff as commissary sergeant. He belonged to the Commonwealth Club. He attended Piedmont Congregational Church.
In politics he was an active and earnest Republican.
He enlisted, September 6, 1862, and served until September 2, 1863, in Company I, Fifty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He was a member of Post No. 10, G. A. R.
CAUSE OF DEATH: Heart trouble when in the south on a pleasure trip with his daughter, Mrs. Charles M. Booth.
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Birth: Abt. 1835 in New Port, Sullivan County, New Hampshire