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(111); Cranch, Mary Smith, (max: 6); Palmer, Mary, (max: 8) Title: Peabody family papers, 1790-1880. Author(s): Peabody family. ; Cranch, Mary Smith, 1741-1811. ; Mann, Mary Peabody,: 1806-1887. ; Palmer, Elizabeth Hunt. ; Palmer, Mary, 1746-1791. ; Peabody, Nathaniel Cranch, b. 1811. ; Peabody, Wellington, 1816-1837. Year: 1790-1880 Description: 1 box. Language: English Abstract: Correspondence, genealogical notebooks, and other papers of the Peabody family. Included are letters from Nathaniel Cranch Peabody to his sister Mary Peabody Mann, copies of letters written by their brother Wellington Peabody, and letters of Mary Palmer and Elizabeth Hunt Palmer to Mary Smith Cranch. The collection contains genealogical notebooks on the Palmer, Peabody, and Hibbard families. Also included are a report on the "phrenological character of Nathaniel C. 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II Record WorldCat Subjects Libraries E-mail Print Export Help 4 of 7. 4 Mark: Prev Next Everett-Peabody family papers, Charles Francis Adams; John Quincy Adams; Louisa Catherine Adams; John A Andrew; William S Atlee; George Bancroft; Phillips Brooks; Orestes Augustus Brownson; James Buchanan; John C Calhoun; Henry Clay; Alexander Hill Everett; Edward Everett; Lucretia Orne Peabody Everett; Asa Gray; Benjamin Harrison; Julia Ward Howe; Washington Irving; Thomas Jefferson; Fanny Kemble; Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette, marquis de; Francis Lieber; James Madison; Peter Parker; William Hickling Prescott; Alexander Turney Stewart; George Ticknor; Daniel Webster; White family.; Peabody family. 1778-1908 English Archival Material 3 boxes, 1 V. and 1 oversize V. Personal and family correspondence, sermons, sketches and vol. of bird watercolors of the Rev. William Bourn Oliver Peabody, Unitarian minister of Springfield, Mass., and other papers of William S. Atlee, of Philadelphia, Alexander Hill Everett, diplomat to Russia and Spain and editor, his wife Lucretia Orne Peabody Everett, Francis H. Peabody, banker of Boston and founder of Kidder, Peabody and Company, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, the Peabody family, and Moses White, Revolutionary officer, and his family, of Rutland, Mass GET THIS ITEM Availability: Check the catalogs in your library. Libraries worldwide that own item: 1 FIND RELATED More Like This: Search for versions with same title and author | Advanced options Find Items About: Adams, Charles Francis, (max: 286); Adams, John Quincy, (max: 1,613); Adams, Louisa Catherine, (max: 51); Andrew, John A. (max: 142); Bancroft, George, (max: 262); Brooks, Phillips, (max: 292); Brownson, Orestes Augustus, (max: 307); Buchanan, James, (max: 811); Calhoun, John C. (max: 1,206); Clay, Henry, (max: 2,072); Everett, Alexander Hill, (max: 33); Everett, Edward, (max: 344); Everett, Lucretia Orne Peabody, (max: 1); Gray, Asa, (max: 173); Harrison, Benjamin, (max: 570); Howe, Julia Ward, (max: 306); Irving, Washington, (max: 1,564); Jefferson, Thomas, (max: 10,679); Kemble, Fanny, (max: 289); Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, (max: 2,966); http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=sp07sw04-46110-e2af... 12/3/2004 FirstSearch: WorldCat Detailed Record Page 2 of 3 Lieber, Francis, (max: 170); Madison, James, (max: 2,131); Parker, Peter, (max: 53); Prescott, William Hickling, (max: 245); Stewart, Alexander Turney, (max: 37); Ticknor, George, (max: 157); Webster, Daniel, (max: 2,616); White family. (1,077); Peabody family. (111) Title: Everett-Peabody family papers, 1778-1908. Author(s): Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886. ; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848. ; Adams, Louisa Catherine, 1755-1852. ; Andrew, John A.; 1818-1867. ; (John Albion),; Atlee, William S. ; Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 ; Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893. ; Brownson, Orestes Augustus, 1803-1876. ; Buchanan, James, 1791-1868. ; Calhoun, John C..: 1782-1850. ; Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. ; Everett, Alexander Hill,; 1790-1847. ; Everett, Edward, 1794-1865. ; Everett, Lucretia Orne Peabody, d. 1862. ; Gray, Asa,; 1810-1888. ; Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901. Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910. ; Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. ; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743- 1826. ; Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893. ; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier,: marquis de,: 1757-1834. ; Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872. ; Madison, James, 1751-1836. ; Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. ; Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859. ; Stewart, Alexander Turney, 1803-1876. ; Ticknor, George, 1791-1871. ; Webster, Daniel,; 1782-1852. ; White family. ; Peabody family. Year: 1778-1908 Description: 3 boxes, 1 V. and 1 oversize V. Language: English Standard No: LCCN: ms 68-750 Abstract: Personal and family correspondence, sermons, sketches and vol. of bird watercolors of the Rev. William Bourn Oliver Peabody, Unitarian minister of Springfield, Mass., and other papers of William S. Atlee, of Philadelphia, Alexander Hill Everett, diplomat to Russia and Spain and editor, his wife Lucretia Orne Peabody Everett, Francis H. Peabody, banker of Boston and founder of Kidder, Peabody and Company, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, the Peabody family, and Moses White, Revolutionary officer, and his family, of Rutland, Mass. Includes letters of William Peabody's son Oliver while serving with the 45th Regt., Massachusetts Volunteer Militia (Infantry) at New Bern, N.C., in the Civil War. Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Louisa Catherine Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Andrew, George Bancroft, Phillips Brooks, Orestes A. Brownson, James Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Edward Everett, Asa Gray, Benjamin Harrison, Julia Ward Howe, Washington Irving, Thomas Jefferson, Fanny Kemble, Lafayette, Francis Lieber, James Madison, Pierre d'Oubril, Peter Parker, William Hickling Prescott, Alexander Turney Stewart, George Ticknor, and Daniel Webster. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Investment banking -- Massachusetts - Boston, Unitarian Universalist churches -- Clergy. Birds in art. Named Corp: United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 45th Volunteer Militia (1861-1865) Kidder, Peabody and Company (Boston, Mass.) Geographic: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 --- Regimental histories. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives. General Info: Unpublished guide in the library. Entry: 19871013 Update: 20041120 Document Type: Archival Material Accession No: OCLC: 16844759 Database: WorldCat http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=sp07sw04-46110-e2af... 12/3/2004 HOLLIS FULL CATALOG - Full View of Record Page 1 of 2 B Your Account Start Over Help Comments TAS Full Catalog Journals Reserves E-Resources HOLLIS CATALOG Previous Searches | Results List Display Options Harvard University Search I Expanded Search I Command Search Harvard Libraries Full View of Record : FULL CATALOG Save/Mail Add to List I View List Last Browse Choose format: Full view | Short view MARC Record 3 out of 98 Previous Record Next Record Author : Peabody, Francis Greenwood, 1847-1936. Title : Harvard in the sixties, a boy's eye view; some reminiscences contributed to the Cambridge Historical Society at its meeting of March 12, 1935. Published : Cambridge, Mass., 1935. All Locations : Availability Location : Biblioteca Berenson i Ref F74.C1 P4 1935 [Accession no.: 17.794.] [Ref.C.2.] Holdings Availability Location : Harvard Archives i HUA 869.69 Box 30 Holdings Availability Description : 38 p. small 8vo History notes : Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847-1936) earned his Harvard AB 1869. He served Harvard as Overseer from 1877-1882, Parkman Professor of Theology from 1881-1886, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals from 1886-1913, and Dean of the Divinity School from 1901-1906. Subject : Harvard University -- Anecdotes. Harvard University -- History -- 19th century. HOLLIS Number : 004570794 Previous Record Next Record SEARCH: FULL CATALOG Browse an Alphabetical List: Browse for: Author (last name first) Browse Clear Keywords from: Search for: Keywords anywhere Search Clear Copyright c 2002 President and Fellows of Harvard College /39TEQJBDJ6UV32Q4L49YDQQRAQXMIR4CDRM6FLBA8TMS7AAUC6-12512?func=full-set-set&set_num1/14/200 Andrew Preston Peabody - Wikipedia Page 1 of 2 WIKIPEDIA Andrew Preston Peabody Andrew Preston Peabody (March 19, 1811 - March 10, 1893) was an Doctor American clergyman and author. Andrew Preston Peabody Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Peabody was descended from Lieut. Francis Peabody of St. Albans, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1635. He learned to read before he was three years old, entered Harvard College at the age of twelve, and graduated in 1826, the youngest graduate of Harvard with the single exception of Paul Dudley (class of 1690). [1] In 1833 Peabody became assistant pastor of the South Parish (Unitarian) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; the senior pastor died before Peabody had been preaching a month, and he succeeded to the charge of the church, which he held until 1860. In 1853 to 1863 he was proprietor and editor of the North American Review. [1] He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1856. [2] From 1843 to 1885 he served as a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy. [3] Born March 19, 1811 Beverly, Peabody was preacher to Harvard University and the Plummer professor of Massachusetts Christian morals from 1860 to 1881, and was professor emeritus from 1881 Died March 10, 1883 until his death in Boston, Massachusetts, [1] shortly before his 82nd birthday.) (aged 71) Boston, A bronze tablet dedicated to his memory is found in Appleton Chapel, Massachusetts Cambridge, Massachusetts (see the Memoir by Edward J. Young, Cambridge, Resting Portsmouth, New 1896). The inscription on the tablet concludes with: "He moved among the place Hampshire teachers and students of Harvard College, and wist not that his face shone." Alma mater Harvard University Published works In addition to brief memoirs and articles, Peabody wrote: [1] Christianity the Religion of Nature (2 vol. ed., 1864) Lowell Institute Lectures; Reminiscences of European Travel (1868) A Manual of Moral Philosophy (1873) Christian Belief and Life (1875) Harvard Reminiscences (1888). References 1. C One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Peabody, Andrew Preston". Encyclopxedia Britannica. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 3-4. 2. American Antiquarian Society Members Directory (http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistp) 3. Crosby, Laurence M. (1923). The Phillips Exeter Academy: A History. Phillips Exeter Academy. p. 106. External links Works by Andrew Preston Peabody (https://www.gutenberg.org/author/Peabody,+Andrew+P.+ (Andrew+Preston) at Project Gutenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Preston_Peabody 3/19/2020 Andrew Preston Peabody - Wikipedia Page 2 of 2 Works by or about Andrew Preston Peabody (https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A9 22Peabody%2C%20Andrew%20Preston%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Peabody%2C%20Andrew%20P% 2E%22%200R%20subject%3A%22Peabody%2C%20A%2E%20P%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A% 22Andrew%20Preston%20Peabody%22%200R%20subject%3A%22Andrew%20P%2E%20Peabody%22% 200R%20subject%3A%22A%2E%20P%2E%20Peabody%22%200R%20subject%3A%22Peabody%2C% 20Andrew%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Andrew%20Peabody%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Andrew 20Preston%20Peabody%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Andrew%20P%2E%20Peabody%22%20OR% 20creator%3A%22A%2E%20P%2E%20Peabody%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22A%2E%20Preston% 20Peabody%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Peabody%2C%20Andrew%20Preston%22%20OR%20creator% BA%22Peabody%2C%20Andrew%20P%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Peabody%2C%20A%2E%20P 2E%22%200R%20creator%3A%22Peabody%2C%20A%2E%20Preston%22%20OR%20creator%3A% 22Andrew%20Peabody%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Peabody%2C%20Andrew%22%20OR%20title%3A0 22Andrew%20Preston%20Peabody%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Andrew%20P%2E%20Peabody%22% 20OR%20title%3A%22A%2E%20P%2E%20Peabody%22%200R%20title%3A%22Andrew%20Peabodys 2%20OR%20description%3A%22Andrew%20Preston%20Peabody%22%20OR%20description%3A% 22Andrew%20P%2E%20Peabody%22%20OR%20description%3A%22A%2E%20P%2E%20Peabody%22% 200R%20description%3A%22Peabody%2C%20Andrew%20Preston%22%20OR%20description%3A% 2Peabody%2C%20Andrew%20P%2E%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Andrew%20Peabody%22% OOR%20description%3A%22Peabody%2C%20Andrew%22%29%20OR%20%28%221811-1893%22 20AND%20Peabody%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29)atInternet Archive Works by Andrew Preston Peabody (https://books.google.com/books?&as_auth=% 22Andrew+Preston+Peabody%22) at Google Books s://web.archive.org/web/20051126142925/http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/UIA%20Online/13. 8peabodyandrew.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060929035308/http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/HVDpresidents/peabody.php Summary of his career, including acting president of Harvard Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Preston_Peabody&oldid=878451923' This page was last edited on 14 January 2019, at 22:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Preston_Peabody 3/19/2020 The New York Times/Obituary; the Rev. Andrew P. Peabody - Wikisource, the free onlin Page 1 of 2 The New York Times/Obituary; the Rev. Andrew P. Peabody < The New York Times THE REV. ANDREW P. PEABODY. The Rev. Dr. Andrew P. Peabody, of thirty-two years connected with the Faculty of Harvard College, died yesterday morning in Boston, after several weeks' illness, resulting from a fall. Dr. Peabody was probably more widely known and loved by graduates of Harvard than any other man connected with that institution.) His dead will come as a shock to thousands of Harvard College graduates, in whose hearts he had held an affectionate place during the last thirty years. No man was more popular with the undergraduates than was he, and all who knew him regretted when he was compelled some years ago to retire from active participation in college work. No professor was more warmly cheered at the class-day gather of the graduating class about the old tree back of Hollis Hall than was Dr. Peabody. In the Harvard catalogue he is put down as "Preacher to the University and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus." Dr. Peabody better represented the unifying element in Christianity than almost any New- England clergyman of his generation. Though in the dogmatic sense a Unitarian, he lived for interests which are common to the whole Christian Church. His influence was always more persuasive than person, always gentle, always manly, always rightly directed. From the first he was a literary man in the pulpit, and such he always remained, but this spirit only rendered more genial his ministration as a clergyman. Never controversial, never severely dogmatic, though his first published volume was a course of "Lectures on Christian Doctrine," his work was mainly ethical, and his principal books, like "Christianity the Religion of Nature," and "Christianity and Science," both of them attempts to state the evidences of Christianity in the terms of modern thought, are chiefly remarkable as a statement of the question at issue from the ethical point of view. Dr. Peabody was born in Beverly, Mass., March 19, 1811. His father died when the son was only three years old, and, it is said, insisted on his deathbed that the boy should be educated for the ministry. His mother had this thought always in mind, and he was prepared for Harvard chiefly at Beverly under private teachers. He was graduated at Harvard in 1826, the youngest, with two exceptions, of any Harvard student at graduation, and after studying three years in the Divinity School and serving one year as a tutor in mathematics at the university, in 1833 he succeeded the Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker as paster of the South Parish Unitarian Church in Portsmouth, N. H. He held this pastorate until 1860, when he was appointed preacher to Harvard University and Professor of Christian Morals. This relation was maintained till the commencement season of 1881, when, resigning to give the whole time to the completion of literary work that had long been at hand, he was given an emeritus appointment. (In 1862, and again during the academic year of 1868-9, he was Acting President of the University. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times/Obituary;_the_Rev._Andrew_P._Pe. 3/19/2020 The New York Times/Obituary; the Rev. Andrew P. Peabody - Wikisource, the free onlin. Page 2 of 2 From his student days Dr. Peabody was always an active literary worker. He wrote sixty leading articles in the Whig Review from 1837 to 1859, was editor of the North American Review from 1852 to 1861, and contributed frequently to the Christian Examiner, the New-England Magazine, the American Monthly, and other religious and education publication. Besides more than a hundred special sermons, addresses, and orations, he published Lectures on Christian Doctrine in 1844, "Sermons of Consolation" in 1847, "Conversation-It Faults and Its Graces," in 1856; "Christianity and the Religion of Nature" in 1864, "Sermons for Children" in 1866, "Reminiscences of Europeans Travel" in 1868, "Manual of Moral Philosophy," "Christianity and Science," in 1874; "Christian Belief and Life" in 1875, and "Harvard Reminiscences" in 1888. He also compiled a Sunday school hymn book in 1840, and edited, with memoirs, the writings of James Hennard, Jr., in 1847; the Rev. Jason Whitman in 1849, John W. Foster in 1852, Dr Charles A. Cheever in 1854, and William Plummer and William Plummer, Jr. in 1857. Dr Peabody received the degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1852 and of LL.D. from the University of Rochester in 1863. In personal appearance Dr. Peabody was a strongly-marked man-stout, broad-shouldered, above the common height, his face full and closely shaven, his expression kindly, his almost white hair covering a well-proportioned, well-balanced head, and his air that of a man more intent upon his thought than his person. Retrieved from "https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php? title=The_New_York_Times/Obituary;_the_Rev._Andrew_P._Peabody&oldid=3816053 This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1925. It may be copyrighted outside the U.S. (see Help: Public domain). This page was last edited on 17 April 2012, at 23:52. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times/Obituary;_the_Rev._Andrew_P._Pe... 3/19/2020 Bib Register OFFPRINT FROM THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA VOLUME 99 . NUMBER I MARCH 2005 "No Worthless Books": Elizabeth Peabody's Foreign Library, 1840-52 by Leslie Perrin Wilson C 2005 by The Bibliographical Society of America Pp. 113-152. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY, TRANSCENDENTALIST ACTIVIST Page 1 of 6 June/July Concord Magazine 1999 MM Support this Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, site: sponsor a page. Transcendental Activist click for info See your By Leslie Perrin Wilson Curator of the Special Collections of the Concord Public Library. Part I of a Three- message here! Part Series. Coming later: Part II - Focus on Elizabeth Peabody's Foreign Library. Part III - Elizabeth Peabody's More info Views on Language and History (click on on photos for larger view) Go to: Concord Homepage Subscribe Table of Contents Previous page Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894) devoted her Next page Search Back issues long and full life to the expression of Transcendental Contact us idealism in a variety of forms. Greatly admired by some of her contemporaries as a model of passionate commitment, sympathy, and learning, she was Selected dismissed by others as meddlesome and absent- Sources minded. Abolitionist minister Theodore Parker Baylor, Ruth M. praised her as "a woman of most astonishing Elizabeth Palmer powers many-sidedness and largeness of soul Peabody: rare qualities of head and heart A good analyst of Kindergarten Pioneer. Philadelphia: character, a free spirit, kind, generous, noble." University of Novelist Henry James, on the other hand, caricatured her mercilessly as Miss Pennsylvania Press, Birdseye in The Bostonians. 1965. Teacher and educational reformer, founder of the kindergarten in America, abolitionist, Cooke, George Willis. A Historical opponent of European autocratic despotism, friend of political refugees, advocate of Native and Biographical American rights and education, of woman's suffrage, and of world peace, Miss Peabody Introduction to worked unceasingly toward the improvement of society. In the 1840s, she ran a circulating Accompany the Dial. library and bookstore at 13 West Street in Boston, providing the Transcendentalists (see New York: Russell & previous article on Transcendentalism here) with a gathering place and with volumes of Russell, 1961. (Vol. 1, http://www.concordma.com/magazine/junjuly99/peabody.html 12/9/2006 ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY, TRANSCENDENTALIST ACTIVIST Page 2 of 6 foreign literature and philosophy. Margaret Fuller conducted her famous "conversations" at p. 140-157, "Elizabeth 13 West Street. The Brook Farm utopian community was planned there. Moreover, Elizabeth P. Peabody.") Peabody was a publisher at a time when few women were involved in that business. Among the titles issued under her name were Dr. William Ellery Channing's Emancipation (1840), Mott, Wesley T. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair, Famous Old People, and Liberty Tree (1841), two of the Biographical four volumes of the Transcendental periodical the Dial (1 842 and 1843), and the short-lived Dictionary of Aesthetic Papers (1849), which included the first appearance in print of Thoreau's Civil Transcendentalism. Disobedience. Miss Peabody was also a gifted linguist, familiar with some dozen languages, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, and a prolific writer on education, reform, language, history, art, and other topics. 1996. Transcendental and Concord Connections Mott, Wesley T. Elizabeth Peabody was the sister-in-law of author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who married her Encyclopedia of sister Sophia in 1842, and educational reformer Horace Mann, who married her sister Mary in Transcendentalism. 1843. She associated with all of the Transcendentalists, major and minor--Emerson, Thoreau, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Theodore Parker, and Jones Very among them. The 1996. company she kept has tended to eclipse her significance and contributions. And yet, she outlived all of the key figures connected with Transcendentalism, effectively extending the Notable American active influence of the movement almost to the turn of the 20th century. Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical In both her writings and her reform efforts, Miss Peabody was motivated by a comprehensive Dictionary. Transcendental vision of the origin of all matter and spirit and all human activity in God, by a Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1971. sense of the oneness of God, man, and nature. Perceiving God as benevolent and humanity as (Vol. 3, p. 31-34, morally and intellectually perfectible, she believed that her efforts could help to transform "Elizabeth Peabody," individuals and society. by Charles H. Foster.) Elizabeth Peabody had a particular affinity for finding unity amidst all kinds of diversity- Peabody, social, cultural, historical, aesthetic, and linguistic--and above all a powerful drive to express Elizabeth Palmer. her philosophical idealism in concrete ways. Letters of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American Born in Billerica, Elizabeth Peabody moved often. She lived most of her life in Renaissance Woman. Massachusetts, in Salem, Lancaster. Boston, Concord, Cambridge, and Jamaica Plain. In the Edited, with an late 1830s, she frequently visited the Emerson household on the Cambridge Turnpike in Introduction, by Bruce Concord. She lived in Concord later with her widowed sister Mary Mann at the Wayside and A. Ronda. Middletown, Conn.: then on Sudbury Road (1859 and following), and again in Concord with her brother Nathaniel Wesleyan University (beginning in 1878). She died in Jamaica Plain and was buried in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Press, 1984. Cemetery. Concord's Peabody School is named for her. http://www.concordma.com/magazine/junjuly99/peabody.html 12/9/2006 ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY, TRANSCENDENTALIST ACTIVIST Page 3 of 6 Teacher and Educational Reformer Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody's most lasting impact was as a teacher and Elizabeth Palmer. educational reformer. She owed the development of her Reminiscences of educational outlook primarily to her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Rev. Wm. Ellery Palmer Peabody. Mrs. Peabody, wife of physician and dentist Channing, D.D. Boston: Roberts Dr. Nathaniel Peabody and mother of seven children, kept Brothers, 1880. school at home in order to supplement the meager family income. Her daughter Elizabeth attended her school in Salem Ronda, Bruce A. and eventually served as her assistant there. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer Mrs. Peabody embraced the notion that each child should on Her Own Terms. receive training appropriate to his or her innate capabilities, an Cambridge, Mass.: idea in harmony with Kant's concept of and the later Harvard University Press, 1999. Transcendental belief in the intuitive nature of knowledge. Approached from this point of view, education was a matter of Tharp, Louise drawing out, not imposing, knowledge. The curriculum Hall. The Peabody followed by Mrs. Peabody to accomplish this end consisted of Sisters of Salem. language, literature, theology, philosophy, and history. The Boston: Little, Brown, young Elizabeth Peabody was educated under such a curriculum, which informed her sense of 1950. what should be taught to children. Moreover, Mrs Peabody strongly emphasized the moral and religious aspect of education. In her own career as a teacher, Miss Peabody in turn never Wilson, Leslie sharply distinguished between spiritual and intellectual development. For her, as for her Perrin. Introduction to mother, education was not an accumulation of facts but rather a life-long process that a Bibliography of Books Presented to developed the whole person. the Concord Free Public Library by Dr. William Ellery Channing--"the father of Unitarianism" and uncle of Concord poet Elizabeth Palmer William Ellery Channing--also influenced Miss Peabody. From 1826 through the early 1830s, Peabody (typescript he served as the young woman's mentor, helping her to broaden her reading and to think thesis), 1982. seriously about theology, literature, education, and reform. Channing reinforced the connection that Peabody had already perceived between the spiritual, the social, and the intellectual consciousness. In addition, the writings of several educational theorists contributed to the refinement of Elizabeth Peabody's approach. She read the work of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, of Joseph Marie DeGerando, and of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria. Peabody's First Lessons in Grammar on the Plan of Pestalozzi was published anonymously in 1830. Her joint http://www.concordma.com/magazine/junjuly99/peabody.html 12/9/2006 ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY, TRANSCENDENTALIST ACTIVIST Page 4 of 6 translation with Dr. Channing from DeGerando, Self-Education; or, The Means and Art of Moral Progress, appeared in the same year, also anonymously. Miss Peabody opened her first school in Lancaster in 1820. She subsequently opened schools in Boston (1822), Brookline (1825), and again in Boston (1826). From 1823 to 1825, she lived in Maine as governess to the children of the Vaughan and Gardiner families. Elizabeth Peabody was involved in a number of innovative educational ventures, culminating in the establishment of the kindergarten in America from 1859. In 1832, she held the first of her "reading parties" or "conferences" for women. The sessions consisted of reading, lecture, and dialogue on a particular topic, such as ancient history or the causes of the French Revolution. An early form of continuing education, this interactive process was in keeping Text: ©1999 Leslie Perrin with the Transcendental sense of knowledge as intuitive. Margaret Fuller later capitalized on Wilson Photos: (click on photos for the technique. larger view) Courtesy the Concord Free Public Library. Top: Peabody in middle age, Between 1879 and 1884, Miss Peabody attended and lectured at Bronson Alcott's Concord from cabinet card photograph. Below that: School of Philosophy, another experiment in adult education. Peabody and William Torrey Harris near the Concord School of Philosophy, 1880's From 1834 to 1836, Peabody served as Alcott's assistant at the Temple School in Boston (so- (taken by Alfred W. Hosmer). called because it was held in the Masonic Temple at the corner of Tremont Street and Temple Place). When Alcott returned to New England from Pennsylvania in 1834, Peabody was Background: Bren's Original Backgrounds planning to open a school for boys in Boston. Rather than compete with him for pupils, she encouraged him to set up his school, transferred to him the students she had started to gather for her own school, and offered to assist him. Since Peabody's thoughts on education coincided to a remarkable degree with Alcott's, their collaboration started out auspiciously. Both believed that proper teaching elicited the truth and moral sense within children, and that the Socratic question-and-answer method was effective toward that end. Peabody's Record of a School, prepared from her manuscript notes on Alcott's dialogues with his students, was published in 1835. The two volumes of Alcott's Conversations with Children on the Gospels, edited by Alcott from Peabody's notes, appeared in 1836 and 1837. Unfortunately for both of them, Alcott had come dangerously close to discussing the facts of life in conversation with his pupils. The reaction that followed was devastating. Parents pulled their children out of the school. Peabody, understanding that her association with the controversy would make it impossible to gather students for a new school of her own, retreated to her family's home in Salem for several years. http://www.concordma.com/magazine/junjuly99/peabody.html 12/9/2006 ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY, TRANSCENDENTALIST ACTIVIST Page 5 of 6 Elizabeth Peabody lived and taught for a time at one of the cooperative communities that sprang up in the mid-19th century, the Raritan Bay Union in Eagleswood, New Jersey. She moved there in 1853 with her father. Miss Peabody spent a decade of her life championing Josef Bem's novel system of teaching history through color-coded chronological grid charts. Bem, a Polish general, had introduced this method into Poland, France, and England. Between 1850 and 1860, Peabody hand-drew and hand-colored these charts and travelled the country to persuade public schools to use them. In 1850, she published The Polish-American System of Chronology and an accompanying volume of blank charts. These efforts were largely unsuccessful, however. Bem's charts were never widely adopted. Kindergarten Comes to America By 1859, Elizabeth Peabody was ready to take up the most significant educational work of her life. In that year, she learned of German educator Friedrich Froebel, who had worked with very young children and formulated an approach based on organized play, the use of the hands and the senses, and involvement with nature. Froebel had stressed that discipline shouldn't be based on force or fear and had recommended physical exercise in school. His philosophy impressed Peabody. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody established the first formally organized American kindergarten in Boston in 1860. In order better to understand Froebel's principles, she travelled to Europe in 1867, and again in 1871. The first trip marked a turning point for her. By the time she returned, she had decided to devote the rest of her life to writing and lecturing on the kindergarten and to training kindergarten teachers. With missionary zeal, she proselytized around the country, wrote and talked with people in positions of power, and prepared scores of articles on the kindergarten. In 1873, she helped found and became the first editor of the Kindergarten Messenger. In 1877, she organized and became the first president of the American Froebel Union. While the spiritual and moral focus of the kindergarten as Froebel had conceived of it was eventually dropped from the movement, and while other advocates did not necessarily interpret Froebel as literally as did Miss Peabody, the kindergarten became a part of American life due largely to her exertions. Despite frequent changes of outward circumstance and occupation, Elizabeth Peabody exhibited throughout her life a remarkable constancy of motivation. She came to maturity and spent her most vigorous years in a climate that nurtured faith in human nature and http://www.concordma.com/magazine/junjuly99/peabody.html 12/9/2006 ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY, TRANSCENDENTALIST ACTIVIST Page 6 of 6 capabilities. In the classroom, in the Foreign Library, and in her efforts on behalf of oppressed individuals and groups, she demonstrated a pragmatic and abiding determination to bring reality in line with philosophy. Go to: Concord Homepage Subscribe Table of Contents Previous page Next page Search Back issues Contactus Hometown This website is a gift to the Concord community from Hometown Websmith, a full-service Internet marketing Websmith company. 978 369-0113. PO Box 285 - Concord, MA 01742 webmaster@concordma.com http://www.concordma.com/magazine/junjuly99/peabody.htm 12/9/2006 . ger Sargent's Ellen Peabody Endicott (Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott) Page 1 of 3 Singer Sargent's Ellen Peabody Endicott (Mrs. William Crowninshield tt) ) (Thumbnails Index) (What's New) (Refer This Site) Ellen Peabody Endicott (Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott John Singer Sargent -- American painter 1901 Note: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Oil on canvas 162.9 X 114.3 cm (64 1/8 x 45 in.) See also photo Gift of Louise Thoron Endicott in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott, 1951.20.1 of E.P. E. c G.T Jpg: National Gallery of Art DORR beside all Ellen Peabody Endicott (1833-1927) was the granddaughter of a shipping tycoon. Her home at Glen Magna Farms in Danvers, Massachusetts was started by her grandfather: Joseph Peabody who became Elizabeth Parker Peabody Page 1 of 4 American Transcendentalism Web Authors & Texts Roots & Influences Ideas & Thought Criticism Resources Search Communication Center Elizabeth Palmer Peabody 1804-1894 Biography Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was born in Billerica, Massachusetts on May 16, 1804 to Elizabeth Parler and Nathaniel Peabody. Elizabeth Palmer had opened a boarding school and decided her husband's teaching career would be abandoned SO he could become a doctor. It was important to her that she and her family regain a high social position. She believed they could achieve this through Nathaniel's career. The family moved to Cambridge SO he would have the best opportunities for his new profession. Mrs. Peabody gave birth to a second daughter, Mary, in 1806 and then a third, Sophia, in 1809. It seems Mrs. Peabody's desires for her husband's career were not his own and he was unhappy and not as successful as when he taught. The family moved again, this time to Salem, and Mrs. Peabody began to teach again to bring more money into the family. Here, Mr. Peabody established himself as a dentist. The family continued to grow with the birth of Nathaniel in 1811, followed by George two years later. The last Peabody child was born in 1815 and named Wellington. Mrs. Peabody seemed to enjoy living in the past, continually telling her children stories about her own upbringing and privileged childhood. "Sometimes Dr. Peabody felt that he had heard about as much of the Palmer family as he could stand" (Tharp 19). The Peabodys moved to Lancaster to open a school for girls. Sophia and Mary were able to enjoy the old farmhouse, the students, and their last years of childhood, but Elizabeth could not. Her mother, quite promptly, turned the school over to her. At sixteen she became "an unusually gifted teacher for she was able to communicate to her pupils some of her own passion for acquiring knowledge" (Tharp 25). Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's true desire was to go to Boston. She planned that Mary could take her place at the school in 1822 and Sophia could assist her. Elizabeth left for Boston and promised her sisters she'd one day open a school where they could all work together. She was able to make a living in Boston for herself, but she couldn't send for her sisters. http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/peabody/ 11/22/2005 Elizabeth Parker Peabody Page 2 of 4 When Elizabeth became interested in studying Greek she began taking lessons from a young teacher named Ralph Waldo Emerson. When the sessions ended, he refused the payment she offered, but they did strike up a friendship. Peabody was enamored of him (Tharp 27-28). Later on in life, Peabody would seek Emerson's approval when she began publishing her own work (Ronda 118). Unfortunately, Elizabeth had to leave Boston because she did not have enough students signed up for the new school year. She went to Maine rather than returning home. In 1823 she went to Hallowell, Maine to teach the youngest members of the Vaughan family. Later, she moved to the Gardiner's estate and Mary joined her. She was happy with her job and students and she liked spending time intellectualizing with her employer's mother-in-law. During this period of her life she apparently spent a lot of time with a lover only identified as L.B. (Tharp 29-34). In 1825, at age twenty-six, Elizabeth decided to return to Boston after realizing her ideas differed significantly from her employer. She also missed the city itself. With Mary she opened an all girls school in the suburb of Brookline. The school was successful and Elizabeth was eager to open a school in Beacon Hill. The school did well and the two young women were able to bring the rest of their family to Boston in 1828. Elizabeth gave up the school when students were again hard to come by. Elizabeth began "Historical School" in 1827, a precursor to Margaret Fuller's Conversations. Peabody's early attempt at gathering people to talk took the form of a series of lectures meant to help educate women (Tharp 87-88). "At first, Elizabeth read to her ladies from the books and said little. It pleased her when her adult class asked her to read less, to 'converse' more and to lead a discussion where they could all express their views" (Tharp 89). It was as a governess to the Rice family that Elizabeth Palmer Peabody began to envision a school in Boston for boys. "She began to visualize the schoolroom, and the room of her own where she would soon live, beholden to no one, but in a position to help others.". When Bronson Alcott reconnected with the Peabody family in 1834, Elizabeth had the opportunity to turn her dreams for a school into reality (Tharp 90- 91). Temple School Temple school developed out of the desires of both Bronson Alcott and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Their philosophies met and they "believed that truth came not only from intellectual learning, but also from nurturing the nonrational, intuitive powers as well. "(Ronda 114). Alcott showed Peabody examples of work from the school he previously had which helped convince her that she wanted to help him get the school in Boston started. Elizabeth said, "I told him I wanted to make an effort for a school here, and he said he wished to, but he thought he could not do it without a modification of his plan. He must have a school at different hours from other schools and for shorter sessions- two hours and a half, say. I told him there would be difficulty in this I told Mr. Alcott that I would inquire about the children in town, and see whether there was not a chance for him. When he went away I took up the journals etc. and was amazed beyond measure at the composition" (Ronda Alcott thought Peabody was brilliant and she also had a lot of contacts in the Boston Unitarian society. Peabody rounded up the families to participate in the school. Alcott's school would allow Peabody the opportunity to stay in Boston and make a living from something she really believed in (Ronda 116). http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/peabody/ 11/22/2005 Elizabeth Parker Peabody Page 3 of 4 Temple School opened on September 22, 1834 with eighteen students. Alcott started each day by talking to the kids and Elizabeth taught them Latin, math, and geography until the early afternoon. She began to keep a journal in December of 1934 chronicling the evolution of the school. " Alcott swiftly blended a pedagogy of conversation and collective learning with Coleridge's theory of the imagination in a way that echoed Peabody's own first efforts at teaching language" (Ronda11 7). The philosophy that Alcott taught at school is best explained in the following quote. "Words are signs of thoughts, he taught, not simply markers for external objects and events. Language is imagery and images awaken our sense of the congruence between inner thought and outer thing. The real work of the school lay in the children's' self- exploration, the study and expansion of their own native powers of imagination. The children were required to think about ideas, to articulate their views, to write their thoughts in journals" (Ronda 117). The school was not just innovative fun. The kids were not used to Alcott's strict discipline "which centered on complete silence and motionless, on strict attention and on full participation" (Ronda 118). Some parents also had a problem with the way Alcott ran Temple School. They thought his methods were "dogmatic". Alcott wanted to maintain such stringent order amongst the students "so that the entirely mental work of expressing imagination might go forward" (Ronda 118). Parents also worried about the fact that their children's education lacked the natural sciences and the traditional practice of studying from books. Peabody's views "mirrored Alcott's". In fact, her schools in Maine and Massachusetts "sought to combine rigorous training in academic subjects with efforts to draw out and shape students' moral natures. Indeed, much of the intellectual rigor at Temple came from Peabody herself as she trained the older students "(Ronda 119). Peabody's life did not revolve solely around the school. "By 1836 she was increasingly critical of some aspects of Alcott's teaching method and offended by the treatment she received from the Alcotts while she boarded with them (Ronda 120). Alcott's pedagogy intensified and her relationship with the Alcotts took a downward spiral after continual arguments with Bronson and the discovery that his wife had been opening her mail. The arguments wound up revolving around the school and eventually completely broke the relationship down (Ronda 127-129). "It had all become too much- the personal hostility with the Alcotts, the disagreements over private versus common conscience, probably her own dissatisfaction at not having her own school, Alcott's inability to pay her and a looming scandal with Conversations with Children on the Gospels. Elizabeth resigned from the school" (Ronda 129). Peabody wrote Alcott a letter less than a week after she left that has since become well known. In the letter, she attacked his Conversations and "his plan to publish the children's comments on sex and birth" (Ronda 130). She also "defended her departure from the school: 'Whatever may be said of the wisdom of pursuing your plan as you have hitherto done in the schoolroom I feel more and more that these questionable parts ought not go into the printed book, at least that they must be entirely disconnected with me" (Ronda 130). In a surprising move, Peabody came to defend Bronson Alcott when he came under fire with the publication of the first volume of Conversations. "If she had been solely concerned about her reputation or status as a single woman, she might well have decided not to call attention to her close association with Bronson Alcott and Temple School. Nonetheless, she defended her old colleague in the pages of the Christian Register and Observer." Her basic defense was that critics could not see that the purpose of the conversations was to reach a "profound expression of deep, spiritual truth"(Ronda 132). http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/peabody/ 11/22/2005 Elizabeth Parker Peabody Page 4 of 4 Palmer and Fuller's "Conversations" Palmer and the Anti-Slavery movement "Plan of the West Roxbury Community." Dial article, January 1842. Works Cited Ronda, Bruce A. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer On Her Own Terms. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999. Tharp, Louise Hall. The Peabody Sisters of Salem. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. Warren, James Perrin. Culture of Eloquence. University Park: Penn State UP, 1999. Dana Moriarty, Virginia Commonwealth University Biographical Readings H d Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Transcendental Activist - Leslie Perrin Wilson, Concord Magazine, 1999. Part I. Elizabeth Peabody's Foreign Library . Leslie Perrin Wilson, Concord Magazine, Part II. d Elizabeth Peabody: Views on Language and History. Leslie Perrin Wilson, Concord Magazine, Part III. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, an outline biography. Age-of-the-Sage Site. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: Career as a Writer. Jennifer Matthew. d Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, 1804-1895. Alcott Net. d The Peabody Sisters. Susan Ritchie, The Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography Site. Texts d Record of Mr. Alcott's School Making of America site. Bibliography a Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Paul Reuben, Perspectives in American Literature. American Transcendentalism Web Authors & Texts Roots & Influences Ideas & Thought Criticism Resources Search Communication Center All original textual content on this site copyright C American Transcendentalism Web and may not be reproduced in any way without explicit written permission. Web and graphic design for this site copyright (c) Psymon. All Rights Reserved. http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/peabody/ 11/22/2005 9/30/2016 Ellen Derby Peabody Eliot (1836 - 1860) - Find A Grave Memorial Ellen Derby Peabody Eliot Birth: Jun. 20, 1836 Dayton Montgomery County Ohio, USA Death: Mar. 13, 1860 first wife of Charles William Eliot m. October 1858 and daughter of Mary Ellen (Derby) and Ephraim Peabody. They had two sons before her early death: Samuel Atkins Eliot, II, first president of the AUA and Charles Eliot, the architect. Family links: Parents: Ephraim Peabody (1807 - 1856) Mary Jane Derby Peabody (1807 - 1892) Spouse: Added by: DC McJonathan-Swarm Charles William Eliot (1834 - 1926)* Children: Charles Eliot (1859 - 1897)* Samuel Atkins Eliot (1862-1950)* - Siblings: Samuel A. Peabody (1834-1835)* - Ellen Derby Peabody Eliot (1836 - 1860) Anna Huidekoper Peabody Bellows (1838 - 1920)* George Derby Peabody (1840 - 1842)* Emily Morison Peabody (1842 - 1845)* Robert Swain Peabody (1845 - 1917)* Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847 - 1936)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Middlesex County Massachusetts, USA http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11832208 Endicott Peabody Page 1 of 2 Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site Hyde Park, New York Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt > Glossary Endicott Peabody (1857-1944) Endicott Peabody, FDR's headmaster at Groton School, who emphasized "manly Christian character," had a profound influence on young FDR. Peabody, the son of a wealthy Salem, Massachusetts, financier, graduated from Cambridge University and returned to America to enroll in a Massachusetts seminary. In 1884, he was ordained an Episcopal priest. The same year, he and two colleagues founded the Groton School for Boys in Groton, Massachusetts, approximately forty miles outside Boston. He modeled Groton after strict English boarding schools and emphasized "religious observance, vigorous exercise and spartan living." (1) Under his leadership, Groton challenged its students and staff to embrace their civil and religious responsibility, declaring in 1884 that "if some Groton boys do not enter political life and do something for our land it won't be because they have not been urged." (2) FDR took Peabody's lessons to heart, especially his advocacy of strenuous Christianity. While at Groton, Roosevelt attended Peabody's confirmation class, joined a society that helped underprivileged boys at summer camp and a club in Boston, and one winter was responsible for helping to care for a local African American woman, to whom he brought food and fuel. FDR later recalled "as long as I live, the influence of Dr. and Mrs. Peabody means and will mean more to me than that of any other people next to my father and mother." (3) Peabody officiated at FDR and ER's wedding and at the private religious services FDR held before his inaugurations and major events. Peabody died January 20, 1945, the day of FDR's fourth inauguration. Notes: 1. "Peabody, Endicott" in Franklin D. Roosevelt, His Life and Times. Otis L. Graham, Jr., and Meghan Robinson. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1985), 316. 2. Frank Freidel. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny. Little, Brown and Company: New York, 1990, 8. 3. "Peabody, Endicott" in Franklin D. Roosevelt, His Life and Times, 316. Sources: http://www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/peabody-endicott.htm 5/11/2005 /2016 Ephraim Peabody (1807-1856) Harvard Square Library HARVARD igital library of Unitarian Universalist biographies, history, books, and media SQUARE about HSL Advisory Board Related Organizations Contact LIBRARY Home Biographies Ephraim Peabody (1807-1856) Ephraim Peabody (1807-1856) POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2012 BY EMILY MACE Biographies By Samuel A. Eliot Cambridge & Harvard Ephraim Peabody was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, March 22, 1807. His father, Congregational Polity Ephraim Peabody, was the village blacksmith. Lectures & Sermons His mother was Ruth Abbot, a member of a family which has sent out from Southern New UU History Hampshire many able and public-spirited men and women. The blacksmith father died young, Liturgy & Holidays and the widow brought up her two children, a Poetry, Prayers & Visual Arts son and daughter, after the wholesome fashion of a New England country household. The son Religion & Culture enjoyed the privileges of early education which Social Reform are the birthright of every New England boy, and, in addition, had the benefits of active Theology & Philosophy country life and manual labor on the farm. He had a year of study at Byfield Academy, and Women & Religion then went to Phillips Academy, Exeter, which was under the charge of his uncle, Benjamin Abbot. From Exeter he went to Bowdoin ://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/ephraim-peabody-1807-1856/ 1/5 9/30/2016 Ephraim Peabody (1807-1856) Harvard Square Library College, where he graduated in the class of Ephraim Peabody 1827. At school and college he won the high regard of his teachers and classmates, and showed the intellectual force, the habits of Donate to Harvard diligence and observation, and the poetic gifts which afterwards distinguished him. He was a Square Library very tall, slender youth, of gentle and refined appearance. It was natural that on leaving college he should go at once to Cambridge to prepare himself for the ministry. All his aptitudes and DONATE inheritances led him in that direction. The Abbot blood had been for generations productive of ministers. Wilton, his native place, was one of the few New Hampshire towns wherein the Safe & Secure church had adopted liberal Christian principles, and Ephraim Peabody was trained, alike in his family and in his church connections, in the principles of a pure Christianity. Sign Up for Updates Mr. Peabody graduated at the Harvard Divinity School in 1830, and went at once to be a tutor in the family of Mr. Harm Jan Huidekoper at Meadville, Pennsylvania-a post which was Enter your email JOIN NOW filled by a succession of young clergymen, almost all of whom afterwards attained to high distinction. At Meadville he began to preach, and his services were highly appreciated. With characteristic modesty he declined a number of calls which were offered to him, but for which he did not think himself sufficiently prepared. Finally, in 1832, he accepted an invitation to serve the little Unitarian congregation recently gathered in Cincinnati, which was then an outpost. His congregation was small, his salary modest, his labors and his successes great. His amiability and sweetness of nature made controversy with him on the part of hostile ministers or sectaries impossible, and the Unitarian church not only increased steadily in numbers and influence, but also in public respect. Mr. Peabody's poetic gifts declared themselves alike in his contributions to the magazines of the time and in the illustrations which he used in his preaching. In spite of wearing professional labors and the impossibility of procuring exchanges, Mr. Peabody found time to direct the literary activities of many young people, and also to superintend and edit a liberal religious magazine. He labored, however, with such assiduity as to SOW the seeds of the ill-health which too soon beset him. In 1833 he married Mary Jane Derby, of Salem-a union productive of all the happiness which can follow from affection, sympathy, and common griefs and joys. In the summer of 1835 he traveled to Boston with his wife and child to deliver the poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard, but just before the meeting of the society he had a hemorrhage from the lungs, and all speaking in public had to be abandoned. His intimate friend, George Putnam, read the poem which he had prepared. The summer of 1835 was also saddened for him by the death of his first-born son, and thus bereavement and sickness were combined to distress his spirit. Though he returned to http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/ephraim-peabody-1807-1856/ 2/5 Ephraim Peabody (1807-1856) Harvard Square Library Cincinnati, he was unable to continue his work, and went in the winter to Mobile, Ala. There the charm of his character and preaching was speedily felt and appreciated, and, after resigning his charge at Cincinnati, he returned to Mobile for another winter's preaching. In the summer of 1837 Mr. Peabody occupied the pulpit of Federal Street Church in Boston, and then accepted a call to the First Congregational Society in New Bedford under a somewhat peculiar but remarkably successful arrangement. Two ministers, both of them in infirm health, Mr. Peabody and Rev. John H. Morison, took joint charge of the parish, and divided the labors between them. This arrangement could not have been made between men of ordinary quality. It was carried out faithfully and in the most kindly spirit for a number of years, the two ministers "in honor preferring one another." Mr. Peabody went to New Bedford after two years of almost unrecompensed ill-health and in distress of mind and body. When he began his New Bedford ministry, the whole furniture of his study consisted of a little pine table and two chairs. His stay at New Bedford was also marked by the loss of two more young children, but in spite of these calamities he preserved his quiet self-possession and kindly cheerfulness. He endeared himself to the people of the place with a strength of affection which is very rare. They admired his wisdom, they loved his gentleness, they delighted in his constant and genial humor. In 1845 he resigned his charge in New Bedford to accept the call to King's Chapel in Boston, having at the same time to decline the call to another Boston church which had been equally attracted to him by the persuasiveness of his preaching, the strength of his character, and the beauty of his life. He soon established himself, not only in the hearts of the people of King's Chapel, but in the respect and affection of a much larger community. He was assiduous in cultivating a personal knowledge of the character of each member of his congregation. Said a parishioner: In one respect he was the most remarkable man it has been my fortune to meet, and that was in the union of a childlike simplicity with a singular knowledge of men. His judgments on the characters of those with whom he came in contact were wonderful. All shams, all pretence, all mere outside coverings, seemed to fall at once before his gentle eye; and though his opinions were announced with great caution, and he always took the w.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/ephraim-peabody-1807-1856/ 3/ 9/30/2016 Ephraim Peabody (1807-1856) I Harvard Square Library most lenient view possible, yet it was clear he understood perfectly well the real character of those whom he knew. The affection which he inspired in the people of his parish has never been surpassed. His work extended far beyond the bounds of any single church. As at Cincinnati he had edited a magazine, SO in Boston he became one of the editors of the Christian Register, and, in cooperation with able associates, bestowed much time and labor upon that journal. In association with Frederic T. Gray he founded a school for adults whose education had been neglected, and laid down far-seeing plans for the development of the school system of Boston. He was exceedingly active and useful in the philanthropic work of the city. He was one of the founders of the Provident Institution for Savings, which has been the model for the savings- banks of the nation. He also, far in advance of his time, introduced at Boston the plan of associated charitable work. He divided the city into districts, and gave the supervision of each district to an individual who was responsible for the administration of poor relief in that section. He was further frequently called upon to represent the city or his denomination on public occasions as orator or poet. In 1852 he delivered the Commencement poem at Bowdoin College, which was received with great enthusiasm. In the succeeding year he passed six months in Europe, going with the vivacity of a boy, and enjoying with all the power of enjoyment of a highly cultivated man. A fellow-traveler wrote of him: To visit these scenes with him, to listen to his criticisms, to be guided by his excellent taste, to be enlightened by his extensive knowledge, but, more than all, to be affected by nearness of a character so refined, SO simple, SO true, I regard as among the most fortunate events of my life. In the summer of 1855 he was again attacked with bleeding at the lungs, and was soon compelled to give up preaching. His last appearance in public was to preach the memorial sermon for his friend, Judge Charles Jackson, on the last Sunday of 1855. The sermon is remarkable for its appropriateness, not only to the distinguished judge it commemorated, but, hhttp://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/ephraim-peabody-1807-1856/ 4/5 Ephraim Peabody (1807-1856) | Harvard Square Library unconsciously, to the life of the preacher himself. He died in Boston on the 28th of November, 1856. Mr. Peabody had seven children, three of whom died in childhood. The children who survived him were: Ellen Derby Peabody, who married Charles W. Eliot, afterwards president of Harvard College; Anna Huidekoper Peabody, who married Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, of New York; Robert Swain Peabody, president of the American Society of Architects; and Francis Greenwood Peabody, Plummer Professor in Harvard University and Dean of the Harvard Divinity School. Series Navigation Ezra Stiles Gannett (1801-1871) >>