Jane Peyton

Jane Peyton , was an American lead and supporting actress whose career did not commence until she was nearly thirty. Over her time on stage she appeared in several long running Broadway plays and successful road tours. Peyton was perhaps best remembered for performances in The Ninety and Nine, The Earl of Pawtucket, The Heir to the Hoorah, The Three of Us and The Woman. Once the wife of actor Guy Bates Post, Peyton retired after fourteen years on stage when she married the writer Samuel Hopkins Adams.

Jennie Van Norman was born in Spring Green, Wisconsin, the daughter of George Bosworth Van Norman and Elizabeth Atkinson. Her father served as a sergeant and later drill master with Company H, Wisconsin 8th Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. After the war he purchased a small meat packing company in Spring Green that would eventually expand to include branches in Milwaukee and Chicago and employ over 200 workers. Peytons mother, a native of Maine, died on October 24, 1875, in Milwaukee at the age of thirtyseven. Peytons father next married Cornelia Elizabeth Parsons on November 4, 1876. She died on April 8, 1878, leaving Van Norman to marry Minnie A. Booth, in Milwaukee on November 4, 1878.

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