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 PEABODY

PEABODY

1828-29. He was graduated from Harvard Divin- ity school in 1832, was tutor of mathematics at Harvard, 183'2-3:3, and in 1833 was appointed as- sistant to the Rev. Nathan Parker, pastor of the South Parish Unitarian clmrch at Portsmouth, N.H. Upon Dr. Parker's deatli the same year lie succeeded to the pastorate, which he lield until 1860. He became Dr. Frederic Dan Huntington's successor as preacher to the University and Plum- mer professor of Christian morals at Harvard in 1860, being professor emeritus, 1881-93. He was acting president of Harvard, M«l^<!^ 1862. and 1868-69, and an over- seer. 1883-03. The honorary dtj^ree of D.D. was conferred I on him by Harvard in 1853 and that of LL.D. by the Uni- versity of Rochester in 1865. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical society and vice-presi- dent of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was editor of The yorth Ainericaii Revieic, 1852-61, and Ely lecturer at Union Tlieo- logical seminary, 1874. He compiled a Sunday- school hymn book (1840); edited, with memoirs, the writings of James Kennard, Jr. (1847); Rev. Jason Whitman (1849); John W.Foster (1852); Charles A. Cheever, M.D. (1854), and William Plummer and William Plummer, Jr. (1857). He is the author of: Lectures on CJii'istian Doctrine (1844); Sermons of Consolation (1847); Conversa- tion, its Faults and its Graces (1856); Christian- ity, the Religion of Nature (1864); Sermons for Children [ISQQ); Manual of Moral Philosophy; Christianity and Science (1874); Christian Belief and Life (1875); Harvard Reminiscences (1888); Harvard Graduates Whom I Have Knoion (1890), besides many sermons and addresses and frequent contributions to leading periodicals. He died in Boston. Mass., March 10, 1893.

PEABODY, Charles Augustus, jurist, was born in Sandwich, N.H., July 10, 1814; son of Samuel and Abigail (Wood) Peabody; grandson of Capt. Ricliard Peabody (born April 13, 1731), and of Jonathan Wood, and a descendant of Lieut. Francis Peabody (1641-1697) of St. Albans, Hertfonlshire, England, who came to New Eng- land in the ship Planter in 1635, and settled at Topsfield, Essex county, Mass., in 1667. He re- ceived a private education; studied law at Balti- more and at the Harvard Law school; was ad- mitted to the bar, and began practice in New York in 1839. He became interested in politics; was a member of the convention that organized the Re- publican partj' in New York state in 1855; was a justice of the supreme court, 1855-57; was ap- pointed commissioner of quarantine in 1858; was judge of the U.S. provisional court of Louisiana, 1862-65, and chief justice of the supreme court,

1863-65. He declined the appointment of U.S. at- torney for the eastern district of Louisiana in 1865 and returned to his profession in New York city. He was vice-president of the association for the reform and codification of the laws of the na- tions, and was chosen a delegate of the U. S. government to the international congresses of commercial law in 1885. He was married in 1846, to Julia Caroline Livingstone; secondly, in 1881, to Marj' E. Hamilton, and thirdly, in 1889, to Athenia L. Bowen. He died in New York city. July 3, 1901.

PEABODY, Elizabeth Palmer, kindergartener, was born in Billericu, Jlass., May 16, 1804; daugh- ter of Dr. Nathaniel Peabody. She studied Greek under Emerson; was assistant to Bronson Alcott and Dr. Channing, and continued to teach in Boston, 1822-49, resid- ing at Jamaica Plain, Mass. She was one of the first to intro- duce the kindergar- ten system of instruc- tion in the United States, and in 1858 published an arti- cle on kindergarten training in the Chris- tian Examiner. In 1862 she published a ' ' Kindergarten Guide," which cre- ated a widespread in- terest in the work,

leading to the establishment of several schools, which proved unsuccessful. She went to Ger- many to visit the kindergartens which Froe- bel and liis colleagues had organized, and on her return to Boston in 1868 publiclj' I'epudiated her former niethods of teaching and re-wrote her " Kindergarten Guide." Training classes were established and the reform took a firm hold. She was known as the "Mother of Kindergartens in America." She is the author of: Esthetic Papers (1849); Crimes of the House of Austria (1852); The Polish American System of Chronol- ogy (1852); Kindergarten in Italy (1872); a re- vised edition of Mary Mann's " Guide to the Kin- dergarten and Intermediate Class; and a Moral Culture of Infancy " (1877); Reminiscences of Dr. Clianning {\S80); Letters to Kindergarteners(\HS6): Last Evening icith Allston (1887). She died at Jam;ii(\-1 Phiin, ]\lass.. Jan. 3, 1894.

PEABODY, Francis Greenwood, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., December 4. 1847; son of the Rev. Ephraim and Mary Jane (Derby) Peabody; grandson of Ephraim and Rhoda (Ab- bot) Penbo.ly of Wilton. N.H.. and of John and Sarah Ellen (Foster) Derby of Salem, jMass., and