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George Peabody, A Biography (Paperback, Revised edition)
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George Peabody, A Biography (Paperback, Revised edition)
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International merchant and financier, benefactor of numerous
philanthropies both in the United States and England, and the first
American to be named an honorary citizen of the City of London,
George Peabody never departed from the Puritan principles of
industry, frugality, and humility by which he was reared. Born in
1795 to a Massachusetts family of modest means, Peabody received
only four years of formal education. He was making his own way at
the age of seventeen. By the time he was twenty-two, he had amassed
more than forty thousand dollars; when he was thirty-two his assets
amounted to $85,000. After moving to London in 1837, Peabody gained
a multi-million dollar fortune through shrewd investments and a
reputation for impeccable honesty and integrity. It is for his
philanthropies, however, that Peabody is best remembered. A
bachelor, he decided early to devote himself to the support of
deserving causes. The Peabody Institute in Baltimore is considered
a forerunner of the numerous foundations in America today. Peabody
Institutes in other cities, Peabody Public Libraries, Peabody
Museums of Science, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and the
Peabody Homes for the "industrious poor" in London all owe their
existence to the benevolence of George Peabody. In the Southern
states after the Civil War, he established the Peabody Education
Fund, which made the free education of all races a public
obligation. From this movement emerged George Peabody College of
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, still regarded as
one of the premier schools of education in this country. In
addition to an account of Peabody's accomplishments, this book
offers a picture of Peabody the man - hisbroken engagement, his
famous Fourth of July banquets in London, his troubles with gout,
his worry over his nephew's extravagance, his distress about the
Civil War - as well as the aura of the Victorian society in which
he lived. A new chapter on Peabody's legacy, an updated bibliogr
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