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Birth:          24 Aug 1942 Fairbury, Livingston Co., Ill.
Death:          15 Mar 1995 New York, N.Y.
Cause of Death: cancer

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obit of Carlton Maurice Remsburg
US Soc Sec Apps and Claims on ancestry
ssn 331 32 7898 issued in Ill 1955-56 last reside Hampton Bays, Suffolk, NY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Peck
Ellen Peck (1942–1995) was an American feminist, writer, and childfree activist.
Born Ellen Remsburg to C. M. and Genevieve Remsburg of Normal, Illinois, Peck 
attended University High School there and graduated in 1960. A high achiever, she 
took leading roles in her school's political, acting and debate arenas.

After finishing college, Peck became an eighth-grade English teacher at Pimlico Junior 
High School in Baltimore, Maryland, where she was briefly known for wearing skirts so 
short they would not have been allowed on students.[1] In 1969, however, she 
became rather more widely famous for writing a teenage girl's guide to romance, 
health, fashion, and beauty called, humorously,How to Get a Teen-Age Boy, and What 
to Do With Him When You Get Him,[2] a sort of Sex and the Single Girl for teens. At 
the time the book was taken seriously, but later Ms. Peck claimed it was written 
merely as "humor"[3] and it is usually missing from subsequent lists of her books. The 
book was quite popular, selling more than 50,000 copies in hard-cover,[4] and during 
the 1970s she wrote an advice column for teen-agers, called "The Column," which 
appeared in The Baltimore Sun and was nationally syndicated.[5] She subsequently 
wrote another book providing contraceptive information and called Sex and Birth 
Control: a Guide for the Young (1973; rev. ed. 1981), with E. James Lieberman, M.D.

Later career as a childfree advocate[edit]

In 1971, along with William Granzig she wrote The Baby Trap, one of the first books 
about the emerging childfree movement. In 1972, Peck and Shirley Radl founded the 
National Organization for Non-Parents (N.O.N.), an advocacy organization for men and 
women who choose not to have children. She later wrote several more books on 
parenthood and was, for a time, a rather prominent childfree advocate, even 
appearing on The Tonight Show where she exchanged views with Joe Namath.[6]

Personal life[edit]

Ms. Peck was married in 1965 to William Peck,[7] head of an advertising agency in 
Baltimore.[8] She never had children and eventually divorced. She died of cancer on 
March 15, 1995 in New York.[9]

Books[edit]
How to Get a Teen-Age Boy, and What to Do With Him When You Get Him, (ISBN 
978-0870350122)(1969).
The Baby Trap, (ISBN 978-0523009032)(1971), with William Granzig
Sex and Birth Control: a Guide for the Young (1973; rev. ed. 1981; Spanish tr.), with 
E. James Lieberman, M.D.
Pronatalism: The Myth of Mom and Apple Pie (ISBN 0-690-00498-2)(1974), an 
anthology of anti-natalist writings co-edited by Judith Senderowitz
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Equality (ISBN 0-13-345512-2)(1975), with 
William Granzig
The Joy of the Only Child (ISBN 0-440-04262-3)(1977)
The Parent Test: How to Measure and Develop Your Talent for Parenthood (ISBN 
0399120300)(1978), with William Granzig.

Parents
REMSBURG Carlton Maurice (20 Oct 1917 - 5 Nov 1997)
DORAN Genevieve Mary Ellen ("Mary Ellen") (16 Apr 1910 - 2 May 2008)

Siblings
REMSBURG Ellen Jane (24 Aug 1942 - 15 Mar 1995)
REMSBURG Sue Elaine ()

Marriage To PECK William ()
    m. 1965 

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Marriage To ALLEN ----- ()
    m.  

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