Peabody
Peabody names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Peabody GEORGE, an American philanthropist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an American philanthropist; born in Danvers, Mass., in 1795. He was descended from an English family, and his parents being poor, George received but a scanty education, becoming grocer's clerk at the age of 11. He became chief clerk, and, afterward, partner with his uncle, John 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 In 1862 he established a Board of Trustees in the South, he gave $3,500,000. 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.
Peabody GEORGE FOSTER, an American banker and philanthropist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE FOSTER, an American banker and philanthropist. Born at Columbus. Ga., July 27, 1852. After completing his education he entered business and rapidly attained distinction. Many of his investments have been in Mexico He became president of the Compañia Metallurgica Mexicana and a director in at least five or six other concerns with holdings in Mexican copper and lead. In politics he belongs to the Democratic party, being treasurer of the National Committee from 1896 to 1905. A great deal of time and money have been spent by Mr. Peabody in the cause of Southern education. He is a trustee of both Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes.
Peabody a town in Essex co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a town in Essex co., Mass.; on the Boston and Maine railroad; 2 miles W. of Salem. It comprises North Peabody, South Peabody, West Peabody, and a number of other villages. Here are the Peabody Institute and Library, the Sutton Reference Library, a high school, and National and savings banks. It has manufactures of leather, morocco, sheep skin, boots and shoes, woolen goods, electric supplies, thermometers etc. Prior to 1868 the town was called South Danvers; and was then named Peabody in honor of George Peabody, who born here. Pop. was (1910) 15,721; (1920) 19,553.
Peabody JOSEPHINE PRESTON, an American poet and dramatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOSEPHINE PRESTON, an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York, was educated at Radcliffe College, and for two years ending in 1903 taught literature at Wellesley. She married Prof. Marks in 1906. Her works include "The Wayfarers"; "A Book of Verse"; "Fortune and Men's Eyes"; "New Poems, with a Play"; "Marlowe,” a drama; "The Singing Leaves"; "The Wings," a drama; "The Book of the Little Past"; "The Piper," a drama which won the Stratford-on-Avon prize in 1910; "The Singing Man"; "The Wolf of Gubbio"; "New Poems."
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 counted George Peabody's $2,500,000 for the London poor as past charity; the Peabody Trust it created is still running, now one of London's largest housing associations with tens of thousands of homes. His $3,500,000 Southern education fund, alive when Collier's wrote, was wound up and its remaining money passed to George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, today part of Vanderbilt University. George Foster Peabody, then a living businessman, died in 1938 and is remembered chiefly for the Peabody Awards in broadcasting, established at the University of Georgia in 1940 and still the leading American prize of their kind. Josephine Preston Peabody died in 1922, barely a year after this entry, and her verse dramas are now rarely staged; the Massachusetts town has grown from the 19,553 of 1920 to roughly 54,000, its leather and morocco trades long gone.
Written for this edition, 2026.