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Payne (WILLIAM MORTON American)

WILLIAM MORTON, American educator and author. He was born at Newburyport, Mass., in 1858, and after leaving school held a position in the Public Library at Chicago, taught in high school, and acted as literary editor of the Chicago "Morning News," Chicago "Evening Journal," and "Dial" He varied the rest of his time by writing books and lecturing. His works include: "The New Education"; "Little Leaders"; "Various Views"; "Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century"; "Leading American Essayists"; "Björn stjerne Björnson"; and translations of Segurd Slembe and Ibsen. He died in 1919.

PEABODY Peabody, in Georgetown, D. C., in 1812.

Not satisfied, however, with their business relations, George left his uncle and joined partnership with Mr. Elisha Riggs in the drygoods business in Baltimore, in 1815. In 1837 he withdrew from the firm, and established himself as banker in London, where he amassed a fortune which enabled him to fully carry out his benevolent ideas. He was particularly devoted to promoting education. Commencing with his native place of Danvers, Mass., where he bestowed $270,000 for the cause of education, his purse was always open to assist the good work, not only in the land of his birth, but throughout the world. To the city of Baltimore he donated for this purpose the sum of $1,400,000; to the Board of Trustees for the promotion of education 1862 he established a Board of Trustees in the South, he gave $3,500,000. In for the amelioration of the condition of the poor of London, to which he con- ✓.tributed at various times the amount of $2,500,000. After his decease, in 1869, his remains were, by command of Queen Victoria, temporarily interred in the royal vault in Westminster Abbey and, subsequently, conveyed with state by the British ship of war "Monarch," escorted by an American war-steamer, to the United States, to be finally deposited, amid imposing manifestations of international respect, at Danvers (now Pea body), Mass., in March, 1870.