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title	:	George Peabody, a Biography
author	:	Parker, Franklin.
publisher	:	Vanderbilt University Press
isbn10 | asin	:
print isbn13	:	9780826512567
ebook isbn13	:	9780585132150
language	:	English
subject	Peabody, George--1795-1869, Philanthropists--United States--Biography, Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	HV28.P4P29 1995eb
ddc	:	361.7/4/092
subject	:	Peabody, George--1795-1869, Philanthropists--United States--Biography, Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography.

Page i George Peabody

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Page iii George Peabody A Biography Revised Edition Franklin Parker Foreword by Merle Curti Vanderbilt University Press Nashville and London

Page iv Copyright 1971 by Franklin Parker Copyright 1995 by Vanderbilt University Press Nashville, Tennessee 37235 All Rights Reserved Original edition published 1971 by Vanderbilt University Press Revised Edition published by Vanderbilt University Press, 1995 95 96 97 98 99 5 4 3 2 1 This publication is made from recycled paper and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parker, Franklin, 1921 George Peabody, a biography bFranklin Parker; foreword by Merle Curti Rev. ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8265-1255-0 (cloth : acid-free paper);ISBN 0-8265-1256-9 (pbk. :acid-free paper); 1. Peabody, George 17951869. 2. Philanthropists United States Biography. 3. Capitalists and financiersUnited States Biography. I. Title. HV28.P4P29 1995 361.7'4'092dc20 [B]94-24306 CIP Manufactured in the United States of America

Page v DEDICATION To Betty Parker, full partner in this venture, and to the institutions George Peabody founded, aided, or influenced: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore George Peabody Branch of the Thetford Town Library, Post Mills, Vermont George Peabody House Civic Center, Peabody, Massachusetts George Peabody Library of The Johns Hopkins University Library, Baltimore George Peabody Room, Georgetown Regional Branch, District of Columbia Public Library, Washington, D.C. Georgetown Peabody Library, Georgetown, Massachusetts J. P. Morgan Information Resource Center (formerly Morgan Guaranty Trust of New York), New York City The Johns Hopkins Univesity and Medical School, Baltimore Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Morgan, Grenfell and Company, Ltd., London Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Nashville Peabody Conservatory of Music of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Peabody Historical Society, Library and Archives, Peabody, Massachusetts Peabody Institute Library of Danvers, Massachusetts Peabody Institute Library of Peabody, Massachusetts Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Peabody Trust (Peabody Homes of London) Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia

Page vii Contents Foreword by Merle Curti ix Preface to the Revised Edition xi Illustrations 112 1. Youth 3 2. Georgetown and Baltimore, 18151827 11 3. The International Scene, 18271837 20 4. Esther Elizabeth Hoppin, 18381839 29 5. The Fight against Repudiation, 18371843 34 6. Life and Work in London, 18431861 39 7. The Great Exhibition and Anglo-American Trade, 1851 48 8. The First Peabody Institute and Growing Fame, 1852 57 9. The Morgan Partnership, 1854

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