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CHARLES ENOCH PEABODY8 (Enoch,7 Samuel,6 Richard,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Dec. 4, 1857, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He married, May 25, 1891, in Victoria, B.C., Harriet Lillian Macaulay, born Aug. 3, 1870, in Orillia, Ont., daughter of William James and Harriet (Keenan) Macaulay.Charles attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, left at 14 to study in Hanover, Germany, then enrolled at Yale University, but left after a short time to enter business. At various times, he was engaged in a farming enterprise in Worthington, Minn., with a son of U.S. Treasury Secretary Charles James Folger, an associate of the Wall Street brokerage firm Cushman and Hurlburt, a member of the New York Stock Exchange, a special agent for the Treasury Department in Seattle, Wash., a banker with his brother Alexander in St. Paul, Minn., and served as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank branches in San Francisco and Seattle.In 1888, he was in Seattle, where he joined William J. Macaulay in taking an option on the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Co. in Victoria, B.C., a business later sold. His interest in shipping developed while he was working briefly as a cashier at Merchants National Bank in Port Townsend, Wash. He leased the Union Wharf in Port Townsend and organized a steamship company that gave him a leadership in international shipping. The Union Wharf was used by steamers of the Northern Pacific Railroad and other large shipping companies. On Aug. 3, 1894, in a direct challenge to the monopoly the Pacific Steamship Co. had on steamer traffic between Seattle and Alaska, Charles joined Walter Oakes, George Roberts and George H. Lent in forming the Alaska Steamship Co., with Charles as secretary and treasurer. Charles made the company’s first trip, in March 1895, as purser on the ship Willapa, and went on to become principal owner and president of the company. The firm thrived during the Alaska Gold Rush, and was sold in 1911 to the Morgan-Guggenheim interests. Charles later founded the Puget Sound Navigation Co. and became its president.During World War I, Charles took a leading role in patriotic endeavors. In 1917, he organized, with others, the first Red Cross campaign in Seattle, and was instrumental in organizing a Soldiers and Sailors Club in the Seattle Athletic Club quarters, and led Liberty Loan drives. His wife, herself an activist, was a Red Cross worker and served as president of the Seattle Council of Catholic Women. Charles died Aug. 12, 1926.Children:

i. Charles Macaulay,9 b. May 3, 1892; was in officers’ training school during World War I and became an executive with the G. Baughman shipping interests in Norfolk, Va.; d. in December 1962.

ii. Folger, b. Aug. 22, 1893; served in World War I and later was affiliated with the United Fuel Co., in Seattle; d. December 1970.

iii. Alexander Marshall, b. June 24, 1895, d. in October 1980; he attended Cornell University. As a commissioned officer in World War I, he was navigating officer on the Westerner, making eight trips between Norfolk, Va., and Brest, France, and being promoted to executive officer; later, he was employed by Barber Steamship Co., New York, serving as first officer on one of its ships. He bought and sold ships while associated with E. P. Farley & Co., New York ship brokers, but returned to Seattle on his father’s death and became president of Puget Sound Navigation Co.

iv. Norman Penfield, b. Apr. 8, 1898; he served in the quartermaster’s department of the army aviation service during World War I. He lived in San Francisco.

v. Gerard Rushton, b. Feb. 26, 1900.

vi. Enoch Wood, b. Oct. 8, 1903.

vii. Laurence Bernard, b. Aug. 28, 1905.

viii. Duane, b. Nov. 7, 1909; d. March 1981.

Sources: Social Security records; American Biography LI (1932); Family History Library; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

DEAN PEABODY JR.10 (Dean,9 Joseph,8 Joseph,7 Samuel,6 Moses,5 Samuel,4 Joseph,3 Francis,2 John1) was born July 3, 1888, in Reading, Mass. He married first, in 1916, Marjorie Roberts of Reading, and second, in 1921, Florence E. Palmer of Brookline, Mass. He died Aug. 7, 1951.He received an S.B. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1910, was an instructor and associate professor of structural design in civil engineering at the Institute of Technology, was an exchange instructor at the Worcester Polytechnical Institute and was named professor of architecture at Harvard in 1947. He was the author of Design of Reinforced Concrete Structure.Children:

i. Elizabeth.11

ii. Ruth.

iii. Constance.

iv. Dean III.

Sources: Who's Who in Massachusetts, I (1940 1941), 1940; Who Was Who in America, III, 1960; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

Edwin Ellsworth "Eddie" Peabody, a banjo player, instrument developer, and musical entertainer, was a native of Reading, Massachusetts.

He taught himself to play the violin, mandolin, guitar and banjo while very young. In March 1916, at age 14, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy by lying about his age. After his discharge from the Navy, he began a long career in show business, beginning with Vaudeville. His successful recordings for the Columbia Company made him a household name. Peabody’s energetic playing style, which included fast triplets, glissandos, and cross-picking that simulated the sound of two banjoists playing together, prompted a 1920s reviewer to nickname him “King Of The Banjo”—a sobriquet Peabody retained the rest of his life.
In the 1930s Peabody promoted the plectrum banjo by visiting many of England’s BMG (Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar) clubs.
When the U.S. entered WW II, Peabody returned to the Navy as a morale officer with the rank of Lt. Commander. He performed in shows for servicemen and directed the music and band departments of the Great Lakes Training Station near Chicago.
After the war Peabody attempted to restart his concert career. By then, most Vaudeville halls had closed and musical tastes had changed. In 1948, the Art Mooney Orchestra resurrected the 1920s standard "I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" and created interest in both nostalgic music and the banjo. Capitalizing on this trend, Peabody recorded several albums for Dot Records and performed at supper clubs. His subsequent TV appearances made him a household name once again. He went on to produce records, appear in movies, and inspire generations of banjoists who continue to emulate his spirited style.
In partnership with the Vega Banjo Company of Boston, Peabody developed a new type of plectrum banjo, called the Vegavox, which featured a resonator that rose the full height of the banjo’s body.
Peabody also developed a special electric banjo, first with Vega, later with the Fender Company and Rickenbacker, called the Banjoline. It was tuned as a plectrum banjo but with the 3rd and 4th strings doubled in octaves, similar to the tuning of a 12-string guitar.
Peabody performed for national leaders around the world. In 1968, Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded him a distinguished People To People Award for meritorious service in both the military and show business.

In the 1920s Peabody married his business manager Maude Kelly. After making several visits to the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, the Peabodys lived in Riverside from 1928 to 1939 when they divorced. In 1940 he married Ragna Kaupanger, a Norwegian-American nurse and United Airlines flight attendant. They had two children, Eddie Jr. and George Robert Peabody.
Peabody continued to perform until his death 7 N0vember 1970, at age 68, due to a brain hemorrhage suffered while onstage at the Lookout House Supper Club in Covington, Kentucky. His wife, Ragna Peabody, died in 2002.

Sources: Social Security records; American Biography LI (1932); Family History Library; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY7 (Nathaniel,6 Isaac,5 Matthew,4 Isaac,3 Francis,2 John1) was born May 16, 1804, in Billerica, Mass., the daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Palmer) Peabody. She died Jan. 3, 1894, in Jamaica Plain, Mass.Miss Peabody was a prominent educator and is recognized as the mother of the kindergarten system in America. She conducted a private school in Lancaster, Mass., 1820 22; a private school in Boston, 1822 23; was a private governess in Maine, 1823- 25; secretary to William Ellery Channing, a Transcendentalist leader and early leader of Unitarianism in the United States, 1825-34; assistant at Bronson Alcott's school, Boston, 1834 36; joined Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendental Club, 1836; operated book shop, Boston, 1839-42; contributed articles to Transcendental publication Dial, 1842-43; opened first American kindergarten in Boston, 1860; published Kindergarten Messenger, 1873-75; member and lecturer at Alcott's Concord School of Philosophy, 1879-84.She was the author of Record of a School Exemplifying the Principles and Methods of Moral Culture, 1835; A Last Evening with Allston, and Other Papers, 1886, Reminiscences of William Ellery Channing.

Sources: Andover, Mass., v.r.; Billerica, Mass., v.r.; Ipswich, Mass., v.r.; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Louise Hall Tharp, Peabody Sisters of Salem, 1950; Sidney Perley, History of Salem, Massachusetts I, 1924; Frances Diane Robotti, Chronicles of Old Salem [Mass.], 1948; Alfred Rosa, Salem, Transcendentalism, and Hawthorne, 1980; Who Was Who in America, Rev. Ed., 1967; Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607 1896, 1963; Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew T. Servin, Phelps Family in America, II, 1899; Walter Muir Whitehill, Captain Joseph Peabody, 1962; George S. Mann, Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Man, 1884; Raymond Schuessler, “Mother of the Kindergarten,” NRTA Journal, July August, 1979; List of Persons Whose Names Have Been Changed in Massachusetts 1780-1883, 1885; James Arthur Emmerton, Hathorne Family of Salem, n.d.; D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Essex County, Massachusetts, I, 1888; “Horace Mann,” Dedham Historical Register VI:1 (January 1895); George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 1896; Arthur Meredyth Burke, ed., Prominent Families of the United States of America, 1975; Mary Caroline Crawford, Famous Families of Massachusetts, II, 1930.

ENDICOTT PEABODY9 (Samuel,8 Francis,7 Joseph,6 Francis,5 Francis,4 Isaac,3 Francis,2 John1) was born May 30, 1857, in Salem, Mass. He married, June 18, 1885, in Salem, Fannie Peabody, born Oct. 12, 1860, Danvers, Mass., daughter of Francis and Helen (Bloodgood) Peabody of Danvers. He died Nov. 17, 1944, in Groton, Mass. She died there March 4, 1946.He was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Cambridge University, England; studied at the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. While still a divinity student, he served Arizona's first Episcopal church, in Tombstone, during the first half of 1882. He was ordained two years later.On Oct. 18, 1884, he opened Groton School, with 27 boys and two master besides himself as headmaster, a position he held until retirement in 1940. The school, made possible through a gift of land by the Lawrence family in Groton, from the beginning drew an elite clientele, many of whom went on to Harvard and Yale. Among his students was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Children:

i. Malcolm Endicott,10 b. June 12, 1888.

ii. Helen, b. Feb. 8, 1890, Danvers, Mass.; m. Nov. 25, 1924, Groton, Robert Minturn Sedgwick, b. Jan. 27, 1899, New York City, son of Henry Dwight and Sarah (Minturn) Sedgwick; she d. Sept. 6, 1948, Pittsfield, Mass.; children: May Minturn Sedgwick, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Frances Helen Sedgwick.

iii. Rose Saltonstall, b. Oct. 11, 1891, Groton; m. March 22, 1919, Groton, Dr. William Barclay Parsons Jr., b. May 22, 1888, New York City, son of William Barclay and Anna DeWitt (Reed) Parsons; children: William Barclay Parsons 3rd, Rose Peabody Parsons, Anne Barclay Parsons.

iv. Elizabeth Rogers, b. Jan. 24, 1896, Groton.

v. Margery, b. Dec. 4, 1897, Groton.

vi. Dorothy, b. Nov. 20, 1899, Groton; m. Apr. 16, 1920, Groton, Frederick Trubee Davison, b. Feb. 7, 1896, in Englewood, N.J., son of Henry Pomeroy and Mary Kate (Trubee) Davison; children: Frederick Trubee Davison Jr., Endicott Peabody Davison, Daniel Pomeroy Davison, Gates Davison.

Sources: Harrison Ellery and Charles Pickering Bowditch, Pickering Genealogy, III, 1897; Florence Van Rensselaer, Livingston Family in America, 1949; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Who Was Who in America, II, 1950; Who's Who in Massachusetts, I, 1940; Cleveland Amory, Proper Bostonians, 1947; William Crowninshield Endicott and Walter Muir Whitehill, Captain Joseph Peabody, 1962; Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Three, 1973; William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, III, 1908; Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society 34 (1956); National Social Directory, 1957; Social Register, 1978.

ENDICOTT “CHUB” PEABODY11 (Malcolm,10 Endicott,9 Samuel,8 Francis,7 Joseph,6 Francis,5 Francis,4 Isaac,3 Francis,2 John1) was born February 15, 1920, in Lawrence MA.

Endicott married 24 June 1944 Barbara Welch “Toni” Gibbons, born in Bermuda to Morris and Maude (Welch) Gibbons. She attended Penn Hall, a girls’ preparatory school in Chambersburg, Pa., where she picked up her nickname. Her father called her Carol, because he thought she looked like the actress Carol Lombard, but school friends called her Toni and it stuck.

Endicott came of age at a time when most people of his social class in Massachusetts were rock-ribbed Republicans, but he was a liberal Democrat. It was as a Democrat that he won his only major election: in 1962 he was elected to a two-year term as Governor of Massachusetts. In 1964 he was defeated in the Democratic primary by his own Lieutenant Governor, Francis X. Bellotti. But Mr. Bellotti lost the election to the Republican candidate, John A. Volpe, who had narrowly lost to Mr. Peabody two years earlier. After graduating from Groton, Endicott entered Harvard College, where he was a lineman on the football team and was named an All-American in 1941. He joined the Navy in World War II and was assigned as torpedo and fire-control officer aboard a submarine, the Tirante, in the Pacific. He was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry. After the war, he entered Harvard Law School and on graduation in 1948 joined a law firm. Before President Harry S. Truman ordered the integration of the armed services, Endicott led a successful campaign to desegregate the Massachusetts National Guard. He was elected to a local office in Cambridge in 1955 but was defeated in races for attorney general in 1956 and 1958, for governor in 1960 and for the United States Senate in 1966, all in Massachusetts. After moving to New Hampshire, he lost a race for the Senate in 1986 and the State Legislature in 1992. He was named to a post in the Office of Emergency Planning by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 and practiced law for a brief time in Washington. In his last years, Endicott devoted much of his time to activities on behalf of the United Nations and, despite the effects of leukemia, organized and chaired a New England-style town meeting at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston to promote the banning of land mines.He died at his home in Hollis NH from leukemia and is buried in Groton MA Cemetery. His widow died 7 June 2012 in Jamaica Plain MA of complications from dementia. Children:

i. Robert.

ii. Endicott Jr.

iii. Barbara.

Sources: obituary for Endicott Peabody, New York (NY) Times, 4 December 1997; Boston (MA) Globe, Toni Peabody; outspoken wife of former Mass. governor; at 89,” 10 June 2012; “Endicott Peabody,” Wikipedia.org; “Endicott ‘Chub’ Peabody,” Findagrave.com.

FRANCIS PEABODY9 (Samuel,8 Francis,7 Joseph,6 Francis,5 Francis,4 Isaac,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Sept. 1, 1854, in Salem, Mass. He married, Jan. 13, 1881, in Boston, Mass., Rosamond Lawrence, born May 17, 1856, in Boston, daughter of Abbott and Harriet White (Paige) Lawrence. She died June 8, 1935, in Milton, Mass. He died there Feb. 9, 1938.He was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Cambridge University, England, and served as barrister at law of the Middle Temple, London, Eng., and consellor at law in Boston. He held the office of judge advocate general of Massachusetts. In 1894, he was nominated by the Democratic Party for mayor of Boston, but was defeated. Lived in Milton.Children, born in Boston:

i. Rosamond,10 b. Oct. 7, 1881; m. June 12, 1907, Mattapan, Mass., Benjamin Nason Hamlin, b. Sept. 25, 1870, Shanghai, China, son of Joseph and Jane (Hallett) Hamlin; he d. Apr. 13, 1952, Milton; she d. July 7, 1955, Milton; children: Francis Peabody Hamlin, Jane Hamlin, Rosamond Lawrence Hamlin.

ii. Francis, b. Apr. 8, 1883; d. Apr. 24, 1883, Boston.

iii. Martha, b. Jan. 14, 1886; m. Sept. 18, 1923, Mattapan, Montague William Warren Prowse, b. Oct. 15, 1891, Forest Hill, Surrey, Eng., son of Thomas William Warren and Clara (Fox) Prowse; he d. Nov. 24, 1954.

iv. Sylvia, b. Apr. 1, 1893; m. Jan. 29, 1918, New York City, Clarence Van Schaick Mitchell, b. Dec. 17, 1890, New York City, son of Clarence Blair and Mildred (Matthews) Mitchell; children: Sylvia Mitchell, Clarence Peabody Mitchell, Marianne Lee Mitchell.

Sources: Robert Means Lawrence, Descendants of Major Samuel Lawrence, 1904; William Crowninshield Endicott and Walter Muir Whitehill, Captain Joseph Peabody, 1962; Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Descendants of George Abbott, I, 1906; Charles E. L. Wingate, History of the Wingate Family, 1886; Harrison Ellery and Charles Pickering Bowditch, Pickering Genealogy, iiI, 1897; William Penn Vail, Genealogy of Some of the Vale Family, 1937; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, III, 1908; National Social Directory, 1957.

FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY9 (Ephraim,8 Ephraim,7 Ephraim,6 Thomas,5 Ephraim,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Dec. 4, 1847, in Boston, Mass. He married, June 11, 1872, in Boston, Cora Weld, born Jan. 4, 1848, in Jamaica Plain, Mass., daughter of Francis Minot and Elizabeth (Rodman) Weld of New Bedford. She died Sept. 5, 1914, in Northeast Harbor, Me. He died Dec. 28, 1936, in Cambridge, Mass., where he lived.He received his A.B. degree from Harvard University, 1869, A.M., 1872; S.T.B., 1872; spent the academic year 1872-73 at the University of Halle in Germany, where he was greatly influenced by Otto Pfleiderer's Die Religion, ihr Wesen und ihre Geschichte; received his D.D., Yale University, 1887, Harvard, 1909; LL.D., Western Reserve, 1907. After ordination in 1874, he served as pastor of First Parish (Unitarian) Church, Cambridge, from 1874 to 1880. He was Parkman professor of theology at Harvard, 1881 1886, Plummer professor of Christian morals, 1886 1913, professor emeritus, beginning in 1913, acting dean of the Divinity School, 1885 1886 and 1893 1894, dean, 1901 1905, and overseer, 1877 1882.Dr. Peabody was author of: Mornings in the College Chapel, Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion, 1896; Afternoons in the College Chapel, 1898; Jesus Christ and the Social Question, 1900; Religion of an Educated Man, 1903; Jesus Christ and the Christian Character, 1904; Mornings in the College Chapel, 2d series, 1907; Approach to the Social Question, 1909; Sunday Evenings in the College Chapel, 1911; Christian Life in the Modern World, 1914; Religious Education of an American Citizen, 1917; Education for Life, the Story of Hampton Institute, 1918; A New England Romance, 1920; Apostle Paul and the Modern World, 1923; Church of the Spirit, 1925; Reminiscences of Present Day Saints, 1927; Prayers for Various Occasions and Needs, 1930; Privileges of Old Age, 1931; Rhythm of Life, 1932. He translated Carl Hilty’s Happiness: Essays on the meaning of life, 1903.Children, born in Cambridge:

i. William Rodman,10 b. March 3, 1874.

ii. Gertrude Weld, b. Nov. 4, 1877; d. unm. Dec. 3, 1938; she was a leader in public health nursing.

iii. Francis Weld, b. Nov. 24, 1881.

iv. John Derby, b. Nov. 19, 1885; d. May 27, 1899.

Sources: Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; John M. Bullard, Rotches, 1947; Abiel Abbot Livermore and Sewall Putnam, History of the Town of Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, 1888; Dictionary of American Biography, Part 2, Supplement Two, 1958; Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Descendants of George Abbott, I, 1906; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Mary Caroline Crawford, Famous Families of Massachusetts, II, 1930.

FRANCIS STUYVESANT PEABODY9 (Francis,8 Stephen,7 William,6 William,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born July 24, 1858, in Chicago, Ill. He married first, Nov. 23, 1887, May Henderson, born Apr. 19, 1865, in Whitesboro, N.Y. He married second, Feb. 12, 1909, Mary Gertrude Sullivan. He died Aug. 27, 1922.He graduated from Yale University in 1881 and entered the coal business the same year, building up the Peabody Coal Co. He was president of the company and was appointed in 1917 chairman of the Coal Production unit of the Council on National Defense. He lived in Chicago.Children:

i. Stuyvesant,10 b. Aug. 7, 1888.

ii. May Henderson, b. Apr. 28, 1891, Evanston, Ill.

Sources: Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

FRANCIS WELD PEABODY10 (Francis,9 Ephraim,8 Ephraim,7 Ephraim,6 Thomas,5 Ephraim,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Nov. 24, 1881, in Cambridge, Mass. He married, Dec. 18, 1919, in Boston, Mass., Virginia Grigsby Chandler, born Apr. 22, 1886, daughter of Reuben Grigsby and Virginia (Hamilton) Chandler. He died Oct. 13, 1927, in Boston, and she married second, Dr. George Cheever Shattuck of Brookline, Mass.Francis received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1903 and his M.D. degree from the same school in 1907. He was a member of the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, a member of the Red Cross Commission on Roumania, 1917; a major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, 1918; professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, 1921-1927; visiting professor of medicine, Peking Union Medical College, 1921-22; director of Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, visiting physician and chief of the Fourth Medical Service at Boston City Hospital, 1922-1927; consulting physician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1922-1927; and a member of the board of scientific directors of the Rockefeller Institute, 1926-1927. Lived in Boston.Children, born in Boston:

i. Francis Weld,11 b. Apr. 22, 1924; attended Harvard, served as ensign, U.S.N.R., World War II.

ii. Grigsby Chandler, b. Dec. 16, 1925; graduated Harvard 1948.

Sources: John M. Bullard, Rotches, 1947; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Descendants of George Abbott, I, 1906.

FREDERICK FORREST PEABODY10 (Levi,9 John,8 John,7 Samuel,6 Moses,5 Samuel,4 Joseph,3 Francis,2 John1) was born July 4, 1858, in Northfield, Vt. He married first, Jan. 10, 1882, in Stevens Point, Wis., Sarah Blanche Griffith, born in Decorah, Wis. He married second, Apr. 5, 1920, Kathleen Burke. He died Feb. 23, 1927.Frederick was a manufacturer, beginning as a clerk in 1876 and rising to president and chairman of the board of Cluet, Peabody & Co., Inc. He lived in Santa Barbara, Calif.Children:

i. Helen,11 b. Dec. 17, 1882, Chicago, Ill.

ii. Rachel, b. Jan. 2, 1884, Evanston, Ill.

iii. Irving Wentworth, b. Feb. 7, 1885, Evanston.

iv. Josephine, b. Oct. 25, 1887, Evanston.

v. Frederick Griffith, b. Feb. 4, 1890, Evanston.

vi. Samuel Mills, b. Apr. 25, 1892, Highland Park, Ill.; d. Sept. 23, 1892.

vii. Ruth, b. Dec. 17, 1894, Evanston.

Sources: Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

FREDERICK WILLIAM PEABODY8 (Enoch,7 Samuel,6 Richard,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born June 6, 1862, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He married first, Sept. 21, 1894, in Boston, Mass., Anna May, born June 30, 1865, in Boston, daughter of Frederick W.G. and Martha R. (Greenough) May. He married second, March 17, 1910, Frances R. Bliss of Halifax, N.S. Lived in Ashburnham, Mass.He studied at the Polytechnic and Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, and received his LL.B. degree cum laude, from Columbia Law School, 1888. Began practice of law in New York City as a member of Peabody, Baker & Peabody, later practicing in Boston and retiring in 1912. He served as counsel to the sons of Mary Baker Eddy in suit against Mrs. Eddy. He was the founder, in 1927, and managing director of the American Association Favoring Reconsideration of the War Debts. Author: Religio Medical Masquerade, 1912. Co author with Woodbridge Riley and Charles E. Humiston: The Faith, the Falsity and the Failure of Christian Science, 1926.Children, first two by first marriage:

i. Mary May,9 b. Sept. 29, 1896, Boston; m. Dec. 25, 1919, John Leslie Hotson, b. Aug. 16, 1897, Delhi, Ont., son of John Hastie and Lillie (Swayze) Hotson.

ii. Helen.iii. Richard.iv. Alexander.

Sources: Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, III, 1940; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; American Biography LI (1932).

GEORGE PEABODY7 (Thomas,6 David,5 David,4 John,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Feb. 18, 1795, in South Danvers, Mass., the son of Thomas and Judith (Dodge) Peabody. He was undoubtedly the most celebrated member the family in America has produced. He was an internationally known financier and philanthropist, whose contributions still are felt today. After brief schooling, we went to work at age 11 in a village grocery. By age 15, he became an assistant to his brother David in a dry goods store in Newburyport, Mass. A fire soon put his brother out of business, and in 1812, George sailed with an uncle, Elisha Riggs, for Georgetown, near Washington, D.C., where he again was employed as an assistant in a store operation. At age 19, he was admitted to the dry goods firm Riggs and Peabody. The firm moved to Baltimore, where it prospered. Branch houses soon were established in New York and Philadelphia. After Riggs retired, the junior partner became head of the firm and the name was changed to Peabody and Riggs. In 1847, after accumulating great wealth, George Peabody withdrew from the firm and established himself in London, where he soon was recognized as one of the foremost businessmen of his day. He was associated with J. S. Morgan, whose son, J. Pierpont Morgan, later attained high standing in the financial world.His philanthropic enterprises were numerous. In 1852, in connection with the celebration marking the centennial of the incorporation of his native town of Danvers, he began a series of gifts toward the establishment of the Peabody Institute, a library and lecture hall to which he eventually contributed an estimated $200,000. The people of Danvers later chose to honor the town's famous native by renaming as Peabody that portion of Danvers that included the site of his birth.Other gifts included substantial sums to Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., Kenyon College in Ohio, the public library in Newburyport, the Massachusetts and Maryland historical societies, the Peabody Academy of Sciences in Salem, Mass., archaeological and zoological museums and Harvard and Yale, the Peabody Institute of Baltimore. He contributed funds to support an American exhibit at the first World's Fair in London in 1851, and one each Fourth of July for years was host for patriotic gatherings in London aimed at promoting a high regard among the English for America. He made a gift of $1 million to found a coeducational Training School for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., and donated $3 million to the trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund to promote education throughout the southern states.Congress, on March 15, 1867, voted to thank him for his contributions to education and ordered a gold medal to be presented him. He contributed additional millions for improved housing for the poor of London. Queen Victoria was so moved by his generosity that she offered to make him a baronet or give him the decoration of the Grand Cross of the Bath, both of which he modestly declined.When he died, Nov. 4, 1869, in London, a service was held in Westminster Abbey, and a ship of the Royal Navy, the H.M.S. Monarch, brought him back to America. He was buried with in Harmony Grove Cemetery in his native town. In 1900, George Peabody was elected to the American Hall of Fame. He never married.

Sources: Danvers, Mass., v.r.; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Webster's Biographical Dictionary, 1953; Edwin P. Hoyt, Peabody Influence, 1968; Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607 1896, 1963; “George Peabody,” Essex Antiquarian XI:4 (October 1907).

GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY8 (George,7 William,6 Asa,5 Richard,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born July 27, 1852, in Columbus, Ga. He married, Feb. 5, 1921, Mrs. Katrina (Nichols) Trask, widow of Spencer Trask. She was the daughter of George Little and Christina (Cole) Nichols. Katrina died Jan. 7, 1922, and he died March 4, 1938, in Warm Springs, Ga.Soon after the end of the Civil War, he moved with his family to Brooklyn, N.Y. The family mercantile business in Columbus had been burned by Union troops and economic circumstances meant the end of George Foster's formal education. At age 14 he found employment as an errand boy for merchant in Brooklyn. Two years later be became bookeeper for another firm and in 1870 went to work for White, Payson and Co., Boston importers, all the while engaged in an extensive self education program of reading. He moved into banking in the 1880s and eventually became a partner in the firm Spencer Trask & Co., New York City. He took an active part in direction of railroad and electric development and as a director of trust companies.George Foster Peabody, his half brother, William Foster Peabody, and Spencer Trask amassed a great portion of their wealth through the Edison Electric Co. Trask served as president of Edison Electric Illuminating, and when J. Pierpont Morgan, who had financed Edison, merged all into the General Electric Co. in 1892, George Foster Peabody became a member of the GE board of directors.In 1891, he bought a tract of land on Lake George near Trask's Yaddo estate and built an elaborate home known as Abenia. Years later, after his marriage in 1921 to Trask's widow, he moved into Yaddo. His wife lived but a year, and Yaddo soon was converted into an artists' retreat, fulfilling one of Trask's earlier ideas. Guiding the operation was Mrs. Marjorie (Knappen) Waite, a hired director he formally adopted in 1926.He retired from business in 1906 and spent the remainder of his life engaged in philanthropy and politics. He personally gave away several million dollars, including: $250,000 to the University of Georgia, where he served as a trustee; $25,000 to Skidmore College at Saratoga Springs; $50,000 to Colorado College; and many thousands for YMCA buildings. He was a trustee of the Tuskegee Institute, a trustee of the Hampton Institute and a trustee of a special Negro education education fund called the Jeanes Fund. In 1924 alone, he helped lead a drive that raised $8 million for Hampton and Tuskegee institutes. He helped raise $20 million for the American Church Institute and was known also for gifts of hundreds of thousands of books, magazine subscriptions and reprints of articles, including one by Mrs. Trask titled “Christ of the Andes.”Peabody was deeply involved in Democratic party politics and the New York state and national levels, serving at one time as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. At one point, he rejected an offer to serve as Woodrow Wilson's secretary of the treasury. Through party activity, he became acquainted with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and it was at Peabody's suggestion that Roosevelt sought out the health benefits of Warm Springs.The George Foster Peabody Memorial Highway in Georgia was named for him, as were the Peabody Awards in radio and television.Child:

i. Marjorie,9 adopted as an adult in 1926; m. _____ Waite.

Sources: Edwin P. Hoyt, Peabody Influence, 1968; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Biographical Directory of the State of New York, 1900; New England Historic and Genealogical Register 92:__ (April 1938); Who’s Who in New York (City and State), 3rd. ed., 1907, 4th ed., 1909, 5th ed., 1911, 7th ed., 1917-18, 8th ed., 1924, 9th ed., 1929; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; correspondence from Dena Ackerman Peabody, Apr. 12, 1999.

GEORGE LIVINGSTON PEABODY8 (Charles,7 Samuel,6 Richard,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Aug. 27, 1850, in New York City. He married, Apr. 18, 1883, in New York City, Jane de Peyster Huggins, born Aug. 2, 1856. She died Nov. 27, 1890.He received an A.B. degree from Columbia in 1870 and A.M. and M.D. degrees in 1873, and did post graduate work in Vienna, Strassburg, Paris and London. He was a practicing physician in New York City. He was a clinical lecturer in medicine at Columbia, 1884 87, professor, materia medica and therapeutics, 1887-1903, trustee, 1884-1890, and member, University Council, 1891-1895. He lived in New York and Newport, R.I. He died Oct. 30, 1914.Child, born in New York City:

i. Helen Arden,9 b. March 28, 1889.

Sources: Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Charles Augustus Peabody death notice, Granite Monthly XXXI:2 (August 1901); Who’s Who in New York (City and State), 3rd. ed., 1907, 4th ed., 1909; Biographical Directory of the State of New York, 1900; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

HARRY ERNEST PEABODY8 (Leonard,7 Stephen,6 Stephen,5 John,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Apr. 13, 1865, in Princeton, Me. He married, Aug. 16, 1894, in Cambridge, Mass., Emily Stickney Clough, born in 1869 in Amesbury, Mass., daughter of George and Mary A. (Stickney) Clough. He died Jan. 16, 1940.He received his preparatory work at Phillips Exeter Academy, an A.B. from Harvard in 1887, a B.D. from Yale in 1891, and a D.D. from Grinnell in 1915. He was minister of the Congregational Church, Trinidad, Colo., 1891-96; associate minister, Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, Conn., 1896-99; minister, Windsor Avenue Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn., 1899-1910; South Congregational Church, Chicago, 1910-17; First Congregational Church, Appleton, Wis., 1917-35. He later lived in Rosendale, Wis. He was a director of the Appleton Public Library and Northland College, Ashland, Wis.Children:

i. Stephen Clough,9 b. about 1896 in Colorado.

ii. Leonard Clough, b. about 1899 in Connecticut.

iii. Phillips Clough, b. about 1905 in Connecticut.

iv. Miriam, b. about 1907 in Connecticut.

Sources: Illinois census, 1910; Who Was Who in America, II, 1950; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

HENRY CLAY PEABODY8 (John,7 Thomas,6 John,5 John,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Apr. 14, 1838, in Gilead, Me. He married, July 25, 1867, in Portland, Me., Ellen Adams, born Apr. 27, 1841, in Saco, Me., daughter of Augustus and Eunice Woodson (Cleaves) Adams. He was an 1859 graduate of Dartmouth College. He practiced law in Portland. After serving as judge of probate for Cumberland County from 1880 to 1900, he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, Nov. 29, 1900. He was reappointed Nov. 29, 1907, and died in in office March 29, 1911, in Portland. His widow died May 30, 1918, in Bangor, Me.Children:

i. Clarence Webster,9 b. Jan. 26, 1871.

ii. Arthur Glendower, b. Dec. 22, 1872; d. Apr. 18, 1880.

iii. Henry Adams, b. Dec. 1, 1881; he was a lawyer and an instructor for a time at the University of Maine Law School.

Sources: Bangor, Me., v.r.; Portland, Me., v.r.; George Burbank Sedgley, Genealogy of the Burbank Family, 1928; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Family History Library.

HENRY WAYLAND PEABODY9 (Alfred,8 Nathan,7 Moses,6 John,5 David,4 John,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Aug. 22, 1838, in Salem, Mass. He married first, Apr. 11, 1862, in Salem, Lila Rea Mansfield, born Feb. 17, 1840, in Salem, daughter of Daniel H. and Sarah R. (Shepard) Mansfield. She died Aug. 28, 1890, in Salem, and he married second, Dec. 21, 1892 or 1893, Mrs. Nannie (Brayton) Borden of Fall River, Mass., widow of Norman Easton Borden and daughter of David W. and Nancy (Jencks) Brayton. Nannie died May 17, 1905, and he married third, June 16, 1906, Mrs. Lucy Whitehead (McGill) Waterbury, a social worker, born March 2, 1861, in Belmont, Kan., daughter of John and Sarah Jane (Hart) McGill. Lucy was the widow of the Rev. Norman Mather Waterbury, who died in 1886. Henry died Dec. 7, 1908; Lucy, Feb. 26, 1949.Henry was a merchant in the Australian trade. The firm H. W. Peabody and Co. had offices Boston, New York, London and other cities. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church and was active in denominational work. He lived in Beverly and Salem. His third wife, who was active in children's work and missions abroad for the Baptist faith, was the author or editor of numerous booklets for children. She was editor of Life of Henry Wayland Peabody, Merchant, 1907.Children, born in Salem:

i. Harry Mansfield,10 b. Jan. 26, 1863; d. Oct. 25, 1866, in Salem.

ii. Lincoln Rea, b. July 28, 1865.

iii. Frederick Holmes, b. Feb. 23 or 24, 1868; d. March 20 or 21, 1868, in Salem.

iv. Bessie Winn, b. Jan. 15, 1870.

v. Marcia Tucker, b. Sept. 17 or 27, 1874; d. Aug. 2, 1876, in Salem.

vi. Alfred, b. Feb. 5, 1880; d. Feb. 27, 1908, in Beverly.

Sources: Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Four, 1974; Who Was Who in America, III, 1960; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Mary Ellen Perley, Genealogy of the Descendants of Moses and Hannah (Foster) Peabody, 1904; William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, III, 1908.

JAMES HAMILTON PEABODY9 (Calvin,8 John,7 Moses,6 John,5 David,4 John,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Aug. 21, 1852, in Topsham, Vt. He married March 19, 1878, in Canon City, Colo., Frances Lillian Clelland, daughter of James and Anne Clelland. He died Nov. 23, 1917.James taught school for several years before moving to Colorado in 1872. He organized the First National Bank of Canon City in 1888 and was bank president for 20 years. He organized and for some time managed the Canon City Water Works and Electric Light and Power Co. He also took an active interest in railroad and land corporations in Chicago, Denver, Puget Sound and other locations. He was governor of Colorado from 1903 to 1905.Children, born in Canon City:

i. Calvin,10 b. and d. 1879.

ii. James Clelland, b. July 4, 1882.

iii. Cora May, b. March 12, 1884.

iv. Jessie Anne, b. March 28, 1886.

Sources: Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Mary Ellen Perley, Genealogy of the Descendants of Moses and Hannah (Foster) Peabody, 1904; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942.

JOSEPH PEABODY6 (Francis,5 Francis,4 Isaac,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Sept. 12, 1757, in Middleton, Mass. He married, first, Aug. 28, 1791, Catharine Smith, born Nov. 13, 1760, in Middleton, daughter of the Rev. Elias and Katharine (Blanchard) Smith. She died Sept. 17, 1793, in Middleton and he married, second, Oct. 24, 1795, in Middleton, Catharine's sister, Elizabeth Smith. Elizabeth was born Apr. 2, 1767, in Middleton. Joseph died Jan. 5, 1844, in Salem, Mass. Elizabeth died there Feb. 28, 1854.Joseph Peabody saw service in the Revolution. He served in the privateers Bunker Hill and Pilgrim. He was captured in the privateer Fish Hawk and was imprisoned in St. John's, Newfoundland until he was exchanged. Later, he became second officer on the letter of marque Ranger and was wounded in a skirmish with Loyalists. After the war, he purchased the schooner Three Friends, which he used for trading in Europe and the West Indies for several years. He established himself as a merchant in Salem in 1791 and carried on an extensive trade in the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the West Indies, China and India, amassing a great fortune. At one time he owned Roque Island, Jonesport ME, property that remains in the family today. He is believed to have employed 6,000 to 7,000 men.Children by second wife:

i. Joseph Augustus,7 b. Aug. 7, 1796.

ii. Charles, b. Dec. 8, 1797, in Salem; drowned Aug. 10, 1805, by falling from the main yard of a ship at Peabody Wharf in Salem.

iii. Francis, b. July 14, 1799, in Salem; d. July 21, 1799, in Salem.

iv. Francis, b. Dec. 7, 1801.

v. George, b. Jan. 10, 1804.

vi. Charles Frederick, b. March 4, 1806, in Salem; d. Apr. 5, 1807, in Salem.

vii. Catharine Elizabeth, b. June 23, 1808, in Salem; m. Oct. 4, 1826, in Salem, John Lowell Gardner, who was b. Feb. 8, 1804, in Boston, son of Samuel Pickering and Rebecca Russell (Lowell) Gardner; Catharine d. Sept. 21 or 27, 1883, in Brookline, Mass.; he d. July 24, 1884; lived in Boston; children: Catharine Rebecca Gardner, Joseph Peabody Gardner, George Augustus Gardner, Elizabeth Peabody Gardner, Samuel Pickering Gardner, John Lowell Gardner, Albert Gardner, Julia Gardner, daughter, Eliza Blanchard Gardner.

Sources: Salem, Mass., v.r.; Washington County ME deeds; Peabody Genealogy, 1867; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; and Walter Muir Whitehill, Captain Joseph Peabody; Frank A. Gardner, Thomas Gardner Planter, 1907; Delmar R. Lowell, Historic Genealogy of the Lowells in America, 1899; Charles E. L. Wingate, History of the Wingate Family, 1886; Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume (1607 1896), 1963; William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, III, 1908; D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Essex County, Massachusetts, I, 1888.

JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY10 (Charles,9 Francis,8 Allen,7 Francis,6 Bimsley,5 Francis,4 Isaac,3 Francis,2 John1) was born May 30, 1874, in New York, daughter of Charles Kilham and S. Josephine (Morrill) Peabody.She married, June 21, 1906, Lionel Simeon Marks, instductor in English literature at Wellesley College. They lived in Cambridge, Mass.Josephine Preston Peabody was educated at Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College. Her published worked include: Old Greek Folk Stories (Riverside Literature Series), 1897; Wayfarers: A Book of Verse, 1898; Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems with a Play, 1900; Marlowe, drama, 1901; Singing Leaves, 1903; Pan: A Choric Idly (for music), 1904; Wings, drama, 1905; Book of the Little Past, 1908; Piper, drama, 1909, awarded the Stratford on Avon Prize for 1910, later produced in England and America; Singing Man, poems, 1911; Wolf of Gubbio, drama, 1913; Harvest Moon, poems, 1916.She died Dec. 4, 1922.

Sources: Mary Caroline Crawford, Famous Families of Massachusetts, II, 1930; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

MALCOLM ENDICOTT PEABODY10 (Endicott,9 Samuel,8 Francis,7 Joseph,6 Francis,5 Francis,4 Isaac,3 Francis,2 John1) was born June 12, 1888, in Danvers, Mass. He married, June 19, 1816, in Boston, Mass., Mary Elizabeth Parkman, born July 21, 1891, in Beverly Farms, Mass., daughter of Henry and Frances (Parker) Parkman. He served as Episcopal Bishop of Central New York. His wife made national news when, in 1964 at age 72, she spent two days in jail in St. Augustine, Fla., after she was arrested after she and another white woman entered a restaurant there with five black women.Children:

i. Mary Endicott,11 b. Apr. 12, 1917, Lawrence, Mass.; m. (1) Sept. 2, 1939, in Northeast Harbor, Me., Desmond FitzGerald, b. June 16, 1910, New York City, son of Harold and Eleanor (FitzGerald) FitzGerald; they were divorced, and she m. (2) July 28, 1947, in Huntington, N.Y., Arthur Ronald Labert Field Tree, b. Sept. 26, 1897, in Eastbourne, Eng., son of Arthur Magie and Ethel (Field) Tree; Mrs. Tree served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Adlai E. Stevenson; children: Frances FitzGerald, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, and Penelope Tree.

ii. Endicott, b. Feb. 15, 1920.

iii. George Lee, b. Jan. 15, 1922, Lawrence, Mass.

iv. Samuel Parkman, b. Feb. 21, 1925.

v. Malcolm, b. March 27, 1928.

Sources: William Crowninshield Endicott and Walter Muir Whitehill, Captain Joseph Peabody, 1962; Richard Meryman, “Mary Peabody: The Committed Conscience,” Yankee; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society 34 (1946); Who's Who in Massachusetts, I, 1940; Social Register, 1978; Who's Who of American Women, 13th ed., 1983 1984; Who's Who in America, ii, 44th ed., 1986 1987; “Sketches of the Winners of the 57th Pultizer Prizes in Journalism and the Arts,” New York Times, May 8, 1973.

MARY CRANCH PEABODY7 (Nathaniel,6 Isaac,5 Matthew,4 Isaac,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Nov. 16, 1806, in Cambridge, Mass., the daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Palmer) Peabody.She married, May 1, 1843, in Boston, Mass., as his second wife, Horace Mann, the educator, born May 4, 1796, in Franklin, Mass., son of Thomas and Rebecca (Stanley) Mann. He was married first, Sept. 12, 1830, to Charlotte Messer, who d. Aug. 1, 1832; he died Aug. 2, 1859, in Yellow Springs, O., where he had served a president of Antioch College. Mary died Feb. 11, 1887, in Jamaica Plain, Mass.Mary edited Kindergarten Messenger and a three volume Life and Works of Horace Mann, 1865-68. She wrote Flower People: Being an Account of the Flowers by Themselves, 1838; Christianity in the Kitchen: A Physiological Cook Book, 1857; Juanita: A Romance of Real Life in Cuba Fifty Years Ago, 1887; Life Among the Piutes; Their Wrongs and Claims. Children:

Horace Mann Jr.,

George Combe Mann,

Benjamin Pickman Mann.

NATHANIEL PEABODY6 (Jacob,5 Jacob,4 Jacob,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Feb. 18, 1741, in Topsfield, Mass. He married March 1, 1763, Abigail Little, born Sept. 15, 1745, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Follansbee) Little.He was privately taught by his father from age 12 and began the practice of medicine in 1761 in Plaistow, N.H. He moved to Atkinson, N.H., in 1770. He resigned a royal commission to enter the Revolutionary Army, during which he served in the capture of Fort William and Mary, New Castle, N.H., in December 1774.Nathaniel served as a delegate from New Hampshire to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1779 and 1780 and held numerous responsible positions in New Hampshire, including membership in the state House of Representatives, 1776 1779, 1781 17 85, 1787 1790, and 1793 1796; House speaker, 1793; adjutant general of New Hampshire Militia; delegate to state constitutional conventions, 1782 and 1783; member state Senate, 1785, 1786, and 1790 1793; chosen from Senate and House to be on governor's council; and major general of militia, 1793 1798. He died June 27, 1823, in Exeter, N.H., having spent much of the last 20 years of his life in debtor's prison. During this time, he was not actually confined but occupied a house on the east side of the river and enjoyed the freedom to travel in a restricted area that included most of the village. His widow died Feb. 8, 1831, in Exeter. They left no children.

Sources: Topsfield, Mass., v.r.; Charles H. Bell, History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire, 1888; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607 1896, 1963; “Hon. Nathaniel Peabody,” Historical Collections of the Topsfield [Mass.] Historical Society BII (1901), reprinted from Farmer and Moore’s Historical Collections III (1824); Who Was Who in America, Rev. Ed., 1967; Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774 1961, 1961; George Thomas Little, Descendants of George Little, 1882.

OLIVER PEABODY6 (Oliver,5 John,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Sept. 2, 1753, in Andover, Mass. He married March 28, 1782, in Exeter, N.H., Frances Bourn, born March 31, 1761, in Marblehead, Mass., daughter of William and Sarah (Legollais) Bourn. He died Aug. 3, 1831, in Exeter. His widow died Dec. 28, 1844, in Springfield, Mass.Oliver graduated from Harvard in 1773. He was a presidential elector from New Hampshire in 1796; a New Hampshire state senator in 1794 and 1813; senate president, 1813;sheriff, 1805; and an associate justice of the New Hampshire Court of Common Pleas, 1813 1816.Children, born in Exeter:

i. Sarah Hazard,7 b. Aug. 23, 1783; m. Sept. 3, 1804, Stephen Pearse of Portsmouth, N.H., b. July 17, 1779, son of Peter and Mary (Odiorne) Pearse; she d. Sept. 4, 1848; he d. March 26, 1861; children: Mary Frances Pearse, Emily Peabody Pearse, Oliver Peabody Pearse, Stephen Pearse, Charlotte Pearse, George Pearse, Lucretia Pearse.

ii. Frances, b. Aug. 15, 1784; d. July 17, 1799.

iii. Lucretia Orne, b. July 4, 1786; m. Oct. 21, 1816, Alexander Hill Everett, b. March 19, 1790, Boston, Mass., son of the Rev. Oliver Everett; he d. June 28, 1847, in Canton, China, where he was serving as commissioner under appointment of President James K. Polk; she d. Feb. 14, 1862.

iv. Oliver, b. June 11, 1788; d. Feb. 9, 1793.

v. William Bourn, b. and d. 1790.

vi. Deborah Tasker, b. Apr. 30, 1793; d. May 12, 1798.

vii. Oliver William Bourn, b. July 7, 1799. He graduated from Harvard in 1816 and from the Harvard Law School in 1822; was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1822; was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, 1824 31; editor of the Rockingham Gazette and Exeter News Letter; was associated with his brother in law, Alexander Hill Everett, on the North American Review in Boston, 1830; supervised preparation of the Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, published in 1836 by Hilliard, Gray and Co.; member, Massachusetts Legislature, 1834 36; register, Suffolk County, Mass., Probate Court, 1836 42; professor of English literature, College of Jefferson, Convent, La., 1842; licensed to preach by Boston Association of Congregational Ministers, 1844; pastor, Unitarian Church, Burlington, Vt., 1845 48, where he died July 5, 1848. He did not marry.

viii. William Bourn Oliver, b. July 7, 1799.

ix. Edward Bass, b. May 19, 1802; d. June 4, 1830.

x. Frances Bourn, b. July 28, 1804; d. September 1808.

Sources: Andover, Mass., v.r.; Marblehead, Mass., v.r.; Newburyport, Mass., v.r.; Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard, Genealogy of the Cutts Family, 1892; Charles H. Bell, Bench and Bar of New Hampshire, 1894; Peabody Genealogy, 1867; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Who Was Who in America, rev. ed., 1967; James Spear Loring, Hundred Boston Orators, 1852.

OLIVER WHITE PEABODY8 (William,7 Oliver,6 Oliver,5 John,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born May 9, 1834, in Springfield, Mass. He married, Jan. 1, 1859, in Boston, Mass., Mary Anne Lathrop, born Nov. 25, 1837, in Boston, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Kirkland and Mary Lyman (Buckminster) Lathrop. He died Oct. 23, 1896, at his residence in Milton, Mass.He entered the banking as a young man with the Boston banking house of J.E. Thayer & Brother, where he ramained until 1862, when he enlisted in the Union Army. He served in North Carolina and elsewhere, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel with the 45th Mass. Vol. Inf. He was mustered out July 7, 1863, and joined his brother Francis and Henry P. Kidder in establishing the firm Kidder, Peadody & Co. in 1865. He was a member of the Loyal Legion. He maintained a summer home in Jonesport, Me., where his wife funded construction of the Peabody Memorial Library.Child, born in Boston:

i. Amelia White,9 b. Oct. 21, 1864; d. Aug. 31, 1866.

Sources: E.B. Huntington, Genealogical Memoirs of the Lo Lathrop Family, 1884; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; plaque, Peabody Memorial Library, Jonesport, Me.

OLIVER WILLIAM BOURN PEABODY7 (Oliver,6 Oliver,5 John,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born July 7, 1799, in Exeter, N.H., son of Oliver and Frances (Bourn) Peabody.He graduated from Harvard in 1816 and from the Harvard Law School in 1822; was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1822; was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, 1824 31; editor of the Rockingham Gazette and Exeter News Letter; was associated with his brother-in-law, Alexander Hill Everett, on the North American Review in Boston, 1830; supervised preparation of the Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, published in 1836 by Hilliard, Gray and Co.; member, Massachusetts Legislature, 1834-36; register, Suffolk County, Mass., Probate Court, 1836-42; professor of English literature, College of Jefferson, Convent, La., 1842; licensed to preach by Boston Association of Congregational Ministers, 1844; pastor, Unitarian Church, Burlington, Vt., 1845-48, where he died July 5, 1848.He did not marry.

SELIM HOBART PEABODY9 (Charles,8 John,7 Stephen,6 William,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Aug. 20, 1829, in Rockingham, Vt. He married, Aug. 9, 1852, in Burlington, Vt., Mary Elizabeth Pangborn, born May 21, 1832, in Burlington, daughter of David Knight and Betsey (Farrington) Pangborn. He died May 26, 1903, in St. Louis, Mo., while working on the St. Louis Exposition. His widow died Sept. 1, 1904, in Chicago, Ill.After attending Boston Latin for a year, he graduated from the University of Vermont in 1852 and received a Ph.D. in 1877 and a LL.D. degree from the University of Iowa in 1881. He was principal of Burlington (Vt.) High School, 1852; professor of mathematics at Fairfax, Vt., 1853; professor of mathematics and civil engineering, Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, 1854; high school principal, Fond du Lac, Wis., 1859; superintendent of schools, Racine, Wis., 1862; professor of mathematics and civil engineering, Illinois Industrial University, 1878; and president of the University of Illinois, 1880 1891. Dr. Peabody was chief of the Liberal Arts Department of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; editor and statistician, U.S. Commission to the Paris Exposition, 1899 1900; and superintendent of the Liberal Arts division of the Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, beginning Aug. 31, 1900. He was secretary of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1874 1888, and served as president of that organization from 1892 to 1895. He headed the National Council of Education, 1889 1891.Dr. Peabody was the compiler of the 1909 Peabody Genealogy. Other published works include Astronomy, 1869; Juvenile Natural History, three volumes, 1869; New Practical Arithmetic, 1872; American Patriotism, 1880; and Charts of Arithmetic, 1900.Children:

i. Grace,10 b. May 30, 1853, Burlington; d. Oct. 26, 1907.

ii. Cecil Hobart, b. Aug. 9, 1855.

iii. Arthur, b. Nov. 16, 1858.

iv. Kate Fleming, b. Jan. 12, 1861, Fond du Lac; graduated from University of Illinois, 1883; m. June 30, 1892, Dr. Winthrop Girling; lived in Chicago.

Sources: Rockingham, Vt., v.r.; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

SOPHIA AMELIA PEABODY7 (Nathaniel,6 Isaac,5 Matthew,4 Isaac,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Sept. 21, 1809, in Salem, Mass., the daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Palmer) PeabodyShe married, July 9, 1842, in Boston, Mass., Nathaniel Hawthorne, the writer, born July 4, 1804, in Salem, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Clarke (Manning) Hathorne (the writer changed the name to Hawthorne). He died May 18, 1864, in Plymouth, N.H., and is buried in Sleepy Hollow, Concord, Mass. She died Feb. 26, 1870, in London, Eng.After marriage, the Hawthornes lived in the Old Manse in Concord, but returned to Salem in September, 1845, where he became surveyor at the Custom House. They moved to Lenox, Mass., May 1850, to West Newton, Mass., Nov. 21, 1851, to The Wayside, Concord, summer of 1852. He was appointed U.S. consul at Liverpool, Eng., 1853, spent two years in France and Italy, returning to The Wayside, June 1860. Children: Una Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Rose Hawthorne.

STUYVESANT PEABODY10 (Francis,9 Francis,8 Stephen,7 William,6 William,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Aug. 7, 1888, in Chicago, Ill. He married, Feb. 21, 1914, Anita Healy. He died June 7, 1946. They lived in Chicago.He attended Yale University, 1907 11. He became president of Peabody Coal Co., Black Mountain Coal Corp., Crerar Clinch Coal Co., Cook County Coal and Ice Co., American Eagle Colliery and Bellwood Coal Co.; director, Lyon and Healy, Inc., Chicago, and Eastern Air Lines; vice president and director, American Turf Association. During World War I, he served as a first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps, later as a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service. He was a trustee of the Illinois Institute of Technology, president and director of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club, past grand knight and district deputy of the Knights of Columbus, and a fellow of the Photographic Society of America.Children:

i. Stuyvesant.11

ii. Patrick Healy.

Sources: Who Was Who in America, II, 1950; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

WILLIAM BOURN OLIVER PEABODY7 (Oliver,6 Oliver,5 John,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born July 7, 1799, in Exeter, N.H. He married, Sept. 8, 1824, in Salem, Mass., Elizabeth Amelia White, born May 24, 1799, in Rutland, Vt., daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Amelia White. She died Oct. 3, 1843, in Springfield, Mass.; he, May 28, 1847, in Springfield.He was graduated from Harvard College in 1816 and received an honorary doctor of divinity degree in 1842. William taught in 1817 at Phillips Exeter Academy, was ordained to the ministry of the Unitarian Church in 1820, and served as pastor of the Third Congregational (Unitarian) Church in Springfield. He authored: Poetical Catechism, 1823; Springfield Collection of Hymns for Sacred Worship, 1835; and A Report on the Ornithology of Massachusetts, 1839.Children:

i. Fanny Brown,8 b. Sept. 2, 1825, Springfield; d. Jan. 28, 1844.

ii. Howard, b. Aug. 3, 1827; d. May 12, 1828.#753 iii. Everett, b. June 13, 1830.#754

iv. Francis Howard, b. Oct. 9, 1831.#755

v. Oliver White (twin), b. May 9, 1834.

vi. William Bourn (twin), b. May 9, 1834; name changed to William Bourn Oliver Peabody, Feb. 14, 1887; d. unm. March 2, 1894.

Sources: Newburyport, Mass., v.r.; Salem, Mass., v.r.; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; , Historical Volume, 1607 1896, 1963.

WILLIAM FOSTER PEABODY8 (George,7 William,6 Asa,5 Richard,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born in April 1850 in New York City. He was an older half-brother to the more famous George Foster Peabody, the financier in whose honor the Peabody Awards are named. William grew up in New York. Later on, he had business associations with George Foster Peabody. It was William, who, at times, helped provide George with capital and invested with him in many business ventures, one of which was Edison Electric. J. Pierpont Morgan, who had financed Edison, merged all into the General Electric Co. in 1892. As a result of this and other investments, the Peabody brothers and an associate, Spencer Trask, amassed enormous fortunes. Like George, William took an active part also in direction of land development and was a director of various banks and trust companies.William married Elizabeth Houghton in New York.Children:

i. Daniel,9 d. in infancy.

ii. Ernest Chaukley, b. August 1885 in New York. Ernest married Leslie Ackerman in September 1920 in New York. Ernest and Leslie adopted Daniel Wills in 1926, by whom there were no grandchildren. By Maureen Duffy, Ernest had a daughter, Dena Ackerman Peabody. Dena had a daughter Anne, now deceased; and two sons, John and C.A. Alexander.

Sources: Correspondence from Dena Ackerman Peabody, Apr. 12, 1999; Edwin P. Hoyt, Peabody Influence, 1968; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942.

WILLIAM RODMAN PEABODY10 (Francis,9 Ephraim,8 Ephraim,7 Ephraim,6 Thomas,5 Ephraim,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born March 3, 1874, in Cambridge, Mass. He married, Oct. 8, 1908, in Boston, Mass., Katharine Putnam Peabody, born Jan. 3, 1877, in Brookline, Mass., daughter of Robert Swain and Annie (Putnam) Peabody. He died Jan. 12, 1941, in Milton, Mass.He graduated from Harvard in 1895 and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1898. He began practice in Boston and was a member of Peabody, Brown, Rowley & Storey. He was chairman of the board of Western Massachusetts Cos., vice president of United Electric Light Co. of Springfield and Pittsfield Electric Co., and president of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. William was a member of the state legislature and a lecturer at the Harvard Law School. Lived in Milton.Children:

i. Gertrude,10 b. Sept. 4, 1910, Cambridge.

ii. Anne Putnam, b. Aug. 25, 1912, Marblehead, Mass.; m. Sept. 22, 1945, Frederick E. Donaldson Jr. of New York City, b. Oct. 12, 1911, son of Frederick E. and Marie (Winkhaus) Donaldson; lived New York City; children: Susan R. Donaldson, Alan P. Donaldson.

iii. Katharine, b. Nov. 17, 1913, Milton; m. June 23, 1939, Dr. Henry Hodge Brewster, b. Oct. 20, 1912, Boston, son of Dr. George Washington Wales and Ellen McKenzie (Hodge) Brewster of Boston; lived in Cleveland, O.; children: Rodman Peabody Brewstera, Ellen Hodge Brewstera.

iv. Cora Weld, b. Feb. 23, 1917, Milton.

Sources: John M. Bullard, Rotches, 1947; Who's Who in Massachusetts, I (1940 1941), 1940; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Mary Caroline Crawford, Famous Families of Massachusetts, II, 1930; Moorfield Storey, “Robert Swain Peabody,” in M.A. DeWolfe Howe, Later Years of the Saturday Club, 1870-1920, 1927; Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Descendants of George Abbott, I, 1906; National Social Directory, 1957; Social Register, 1978.

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ANDREW PRESTON PEABODY8 (Andrew,7 Andrew,6 Zerubabel,5 Joseph,4 Joseph,3 Francis,2 John1) was born March 19, 1811, in Beverly, Mass. He married, Sept. 12, 1836, in Portsmouth, N.H., Catharine Whipple Roberts, born May 15, 1810, in Portsmouth, daughter of Edmund and Catharine Whipple (Langdon) Roberts. She died Oct. 14, 1869, in Cambridge, Mass. He died there March 10, 1893.He graduated from Harvard in 1826 and received a doctor of divinity degree there in 1832 and an LL.D. in Rochester, N.Y., in 1863. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1833 and was pastor of South Parish Church in Portsmouth, 1833 1860; editor of North American Review, 1853-1863; and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University, 1860-1881. He was acting president of Harvard, 1862 and 1868-1869, and overseer, 1883-1893. He was the author of 120 books and pamphlets, including Conversation: Its Faults and Graces, 1856; A Manuial of Moral Philosophy, 1873; and Building a Character, 1886.Children, born in Portsmouth:

i. Andrew Preston,9 b. Aug. 7, 1837; d. Apr. 28, 1840.

ii. Catharine Langdon, b. Oct. 16, 1838; d. Jan. 27, 1839.

iii. Mary Rantoul, b. Dec. 14, 1839.

iv. Maria Ladd, b. March 7, 1841; d. Dec. 30, 1890.

v. Robert Rantoul, b. Oct. 28, 1844; d. March 26, 1846.

vi. Ellen Langdon, b. June 12, 1846; d. Aug. 13, 1847.

vii. Caroline Eustis, b. June 8, 1848.

viii. Helen Townsend, b. Sept. 20, 1852.

Sources: Beverly, Mass., v.r.; Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume (1607 1896), 1963; Peabody Genealogy, 1909; D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Essex County, Massachusetts, I, 1888.

ARTHUR PEABODY10 (Selim,9 Charles,8 John,7 Stephen,6 William,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Nov. 16, 1858, in Eau Clair, Wis. He married, Sept. 13, 1885, in Hingham, Mass., Agnes Langdon Cochrane, born July 4, 1866, in York, Pa., daughter of Silas Morris and Charlotte Clark (Rockwood) Cochrane.He received a B.S. degree in architecture from the University of Illinois in 1882 and a Litt. D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1930. He was chief draftsman for Machinery Hall at the 1894 World's Columbian Exposition; practiced architecture, Chicago, 1894-1905; architect, University of Wisconsin, 1905-1915, where he designed 60 buildings; and state architect, Wisconsin, from 1915 until retirement. He died Sept. 6, 1942. Lived in Madison, Wis.Children:

i. Marion Grace,11 b. June 3, 1886, Chicago; m. Sept. 10, 1914, Allen Brown West, b. June 19, 1886, in Reedsburg, Wis., son of Allen Burdick and Hattie Esther (Brown) West; children: Arthur Peabody West, Agnes Elizabeth West.

ii. Arthur Cochrane, b. Jan. 26, 1891, Kansas City, Mo.

iii. Charlotte Elizabeth, b. Oct. 19, 1899, Chicago; m. _____ Kelsey.

Sources: Who Was Who in America, II, 1950; Nellie (Willard) Johnson, Descendants of Robert Burdick, 1937; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

AUGUSTUS STEPHEN PEABODY9 (Francis,8 Stephen,7 William,6 William,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Dec. 3, 1873, in Chicago, Ill. He married, in 1906, Grace Van Alstyne, who died in 1929. He died Apr. 27, 1934.He received his A.B. degree from Yale in 1895. In 1897, he entered Peabody, Houghteling & Co., investment bankers, later becoming a member of that firm, which became in 1929 Peabody & Co. He was honorary president of the Citizens Association, Chicago, the Civic Music Association of Chicago, Chicago Chamber Music Society; and 2d vice president, Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Lived in Chicago.

Sources: Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

CECIL HOBART PEABODY10 (Selim,9 Charles,8 John,7 Stephen,6 William,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Aug. 9, 1855, in Burlington, Vt. He married, June 4, 1885, in Boston, Mass., Sarah Angelina Knight, daughter of Walter W. and Sarah Knight.He graduated in 1877 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was professor of mathematics, Imperial Agricultural College, Sapporo, Japan, 1878-1881; assistant professor of mechanical engineering, University of Illinois, 1881; assistant professor of steam engineering, 1883; professor of naval architecture and marine engineering, 1893-1920, M.I.T. For 10 years, he was president of the University of Illinois. He was the author of Tables of the Properties of Saturated Steam, 1888; Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine, 1889; Valve Gear for Steam Engines, 1892; Steam Boilers (with E.F. Miller), 1897; Manual of Steam Engine Indicator, 1900; Naval Architecture, 1904; Thermodynamics of the Steam Turbine: Propellers, 1912; and Computations for Marine Engines, 1913. He was president of the U.S. Board of Life Saving Appliances and a member of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun (Japanese). He died in 1934. Lived in Boston.

Sources: Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Dictionary of American Biography, Part 1, Supplement One, 1944; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

CHARLES PEABODY9 (Robert,8 Jeremiah,7 Thomas,6 David,5 David,4 John,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Nov. 9, 1869, in Rutland, Vt. He married, Jan. 8, 1895, in New York City, Jeannette Ennis Belo, born June 23, 1869, in Galveston, Texas, daughter of Alfred Horatio and Jeannette (Ennis) Belo. Alfred Belo, who reached the rank of colonel in the Confederate Army in the Civil War and suffered severe wounds at Gettysburg in 1863, was manager of the Galveston News, established the Dallas News and was president of A.H. Belo & Co., publishers of the two newspapers. Dr. Peabody, who died Aug. 16, 1939, received a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1889, a master's degree from Harvard in 1890 and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1893. He began archaeological investigations from 1893, including mound explorations in Mississippi and exploration of Jacobs Cavern in Missouri. He wrote monographs on the so called “plummets.” He was director of the department of archaeology at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and curator of European archaeology, Peabody Museum, Harvard.Children:

i. Jeannette Felicie,10 b. June 7, 1897, Cambridge, Mass.

ii. Margaret.

iii. Caryl.

iv. Alfred Horatio.

v. Belo.

Sources: Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Dictionary of American Biography, I, 1964; obituary of A. H. Belo in Confederate Veteran X:2 (February 1902); Emma C. Brewster Jones, Brewster Genealogy, 1908; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

CHARLES AUGUSTUS PEABODY7 (Samuel,6 Richard,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born July 10, 1814, in Sandwich, N.H. He married first, July 25, 1846, in New York City, Julia Caroline Livingston, born Dec. 9, 1816, in Staatsburg, N.Y., daughter of James Duane and Sarah (Swift) Livingston. She died March 5, 1878, in New York, and he married second, Feb. 3, 1881, Maria Eliza Hamilton, b. June 3, 1825, daughter of John Church and Maria Eliza (Van den Heuvel) Hamilton and granddaughter of Baron John Cornelius Van den Heuvel and of Alexander Hamilton, organizer and first secretary of the U.S. Treasury. Maria died June 24, 1887, and he married third, July 31, 1889, Athenia (Livingston) Bowen, b. 1829, daughter of Anthony Rutgers and Anna (Hoffman) Livingston. Charles died July 3, 1901, in New York City.He studied law in Baltimore and at Harvard Law School, then established his law practice in New York City in 1839. He was a member of the convention that formed the Republican Party in New York, 1855; justice of the Supreme Court of New York, 1855-57; commissioner of quarantine, 1858; appointed by President Lincoln as judge of U.S. Provisional Court of Louisiana, 1862; chief justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1863 65; declined appointment as U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana, 1865; delegate of U.S. government to International Congress of Commercial Law, 1885. In addition, he was a vice president of the Association for Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations.Children, born in New York City:

i. Duane Livingston,8 b. June 10, 1847; d. unm. Sept. 17, 1886, New York City.#658

ii. Charles Augustus, b. Apr. 11, 1849.#659

iii. George Livingston, b. Aug. 27, 1850.

iv. Julia Livingston, b. Feb. 4, 1853; m. Apr. 14, 1887, Charles Joseph Nourse; children: Charles Joseph Nourse, Juliet Livingston Nourse; lived New York City.

v. Julian Livingston, b. Oct. 29, 1854; d. Aug. 12, 1855.#660

vi. Philip Glendower, b. Feb. 22, 1857.

vii. Robert Swift, b. Apr. 3, 1860; d. Sept. 6, 1860.

Sources: Charles Augustus Peabody death notice in Granite Monthly XXXI:2 (August 1901); Peabody Genealogy, 1909; Biographical Directory of the State of New York, 1900; Edwin Jaquett Sellers, Genealogy of the Kollock Family, 1908; Florence Van Rensselaer, Livingston Family in America, 1949; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Family History Library; Gertrude A. Barber, comp., Deaths Taken from the New York Evening Post from April 23, 1855 to March 17, 1856, 32, 1941.

CHARLES AUGUSTUS PEABODY8 (Charles,7 Samuel,6 Richard,5 Stephen,4 William,3 Francis,2 John1) was born Apr. 11, 1849, in New York City. He married, Jan. 27, 1880, in New York City, Charlotte Anita Damon, born Dec. 17, 1842, Havana, Cuba.He graduated from Columbia College in 1869, received a law degree from Columbia College Law School in 1871, and an A.M. degree in 1872. He practiced law in New York City and served in the New York State Assembly in 1876. He was president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, January 1906-September 1927; member, board of managers, Delaware and Hudson Co.; chairman, exucitive committee, and director, Illinois Central R.R.; trustee, Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co.; director, Union Pacific R.R. Co., Central of Georgia Railway Co., P.F.W.&C. R.R. Co., City Bank Farmers Trust Co., and National City Bank.He died Apr. 26, 1931.Children, born in New York City:#1973

i. Julian Livingston,9 b. March 29, 1881.

ii. John Damon, b. Feb. 18, 1883.

iii. Anita Leslie, b. Aug. 7, 1884.

Sources: Andover, Mass., v.r.; Who Was Who in America, I, 1942; Biographical Directory of the State of New York, 1900; Florence Van Rensselaer, Livingston Family in America, 1949; Charles Augustus Peabody death notice, Granite Monthly XXXI:2 (August 1901); Who's Who in New York (City and State), 3rd ed., 1907, 4th ed., 1909, 5th ed., 1911, 7th ed., 1917-18, 8th ed., 1924, 9th ed., 1929; Peabody Genealogy, 1909.

Future Governor Endicott "Chub" Peabody