From collection Mount Desert Island Historical Society - Photographs Collection
Marian Lawrence Peabody
Oval photograph of Marian Lawrence Peabody in evening dress, black with white bodice detail. Marian Lawrence Peabody (1875.1974) was the daughter of Bishop Lawrence (1850.1941) and Julia Cunningham Lawrence (1853.1927). Known as "Maisie" she grew up in Boston and Cambridge, MA and summered in Bar Harbor, ME with her family. In May 1906 she married Harold Peabody (1880.1961). The donor of the picture, Gertrude Lawrence Peabody McCue (1915.2005) was their daughter. Gertrude McCue owned the Claremont Hotel in Southwest Harbor and had a home on Beech Hill Road. [the biographical information comes from the biograhical sketch that accompanies the Marian Lawrence Peabody Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society; the information about Gertrude McCue needs to be augmented] Ann Benson and Roz Rae thoroughly searched all Photo Album binders on10/14/16 and could not find this image. Marion Lawrence Peabody authored a book "To Be Young was Very Heaven" in 1967
