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Endicott Peabody, son of Samuel Endicott and Marianne C. (Lee) Peabody, was born in Salem, Massachusetts . His great-grandfather was the distinguished Salem shipowner, Joseph Peabody, who made a fortune importing pepper from Sumatra and was one of the wealthiest men in the United States at the time of his death in 1844. His father, Samuel Endicott Peabody, was a Boston merchant and a partner in the London banking firm of J. S. Morgan and Company (later known as J.P. Morgan & Company). When Endicott Peabody was 13, the family moved to England. He prepared for university at Cheltenham College, a secondary school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, finishing in 1876 at the age of 19. He was graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1880 with an LL.B. degree. He Married His First Cousin , Fannie Peabody, daughter of Francis and Helen (Bloodgood) Peabody of Salem, Massachusetts on 18 June 1885 in Salem. (His father and her father were brothers.) They had six children. The family has been called Boston Brahmin s. Governor Endicott Peabody was a grandchild, and their great-grandchildren include author Frances FitzGerald , model Penelope Tree , and actress Kyra Sedgwick , wife of Kevin Bacon . Franklin Delano Roosevelt said of Peabody, "As long as I live his influence will mean more to me than that of any other people next to my father and mother." (As quoted in Peabody's obituary in the New York Times, April 13, 1944.) In 1882 during his first year at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts (now the Episcopal Divinity School) Peabody, a seminarian not yet a priest, was invited to take charge of a little Episcopal congregation in Tombstone, Arizona (now St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Tombstone). After a long and tortuous trip, Peabody arrived in Tombstone two months after the "Gunfight at OK Corral". He had words of praise for Wyatt Earp. Though he spent no more than six months in Tombstone he succeeded in getting the church built and planting a church that today is the oldest Protestant church in the state. He was impressive physically, never losing a boxing match. He began a baseball in Tombstone. He raised money by walking into the saloons and holding out his hat at the gambling tables. He has been spoken of as patron saint of the Diocese of Arizona. The importance of this brief moment in his life, recorded in his diaries and correspondence, is that it helps describe the spirit and the presence of the man who was the great headmaster of Groton. |
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