American Institute of Mining Engineers. Personal life On June 30, 1874, Peters was married to Harriet Parker Felton (1851–1929), the daughter of Samuel Morse Felton Sr., also a civil engineer and railroad executive, and sister of Samuel Morse Felton Jr., the Director General of Military Railways at the Western Front during World War I. Together, they were the parents of: Edith Macausland Peters (1875–1930), an art student at Bryn Mawr College. Ethel Conway Peters (1879–1962), who married Smedley Butler (1881–1940), son of Thomas S. Butler and grandson of Smedley Darlington, in 1905. Richard Peters Jr. (1880–1941), a sales manager of the Pulaski Iron Co. based in Philadelphia who married Eula Drennan. Samuel Morse Felton Peters (b. 1883). Hope Conyngham Peters (b. 1890), who married C. S. Ashby Henry in 1909. Peters died on May 24, 1921 at the Women's College Hospital in Philadelphia. References 1848 births 1921 deaths Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni United States Army personnel of World War I Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) People included in New York Society's Four Hundred