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Peabody, Andrew Preston

clergyman, educator, author, was born March 19, 1811, in Beverly, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of eminence, pastor of a church at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1833-60, and Plummer professor of Christian morals at Harvard university in 1860-81. He was the author of Sermons of Consolation; Lectures on Christian Doctrine; Christianity the Fruit of Nature; Moral Philosophy; Faults and Graces of Conversation; Sermons for Children; Christianity and Science; King's Chapel Sermons; Reminiscences of European Travel; Christian Belief and Life; Baccalaureate Sermons; Building a Character; Harvard Graduates Whom I Have Known; Harvard Reminiscences; and translations of the ethical writings of Cicero and Plutarch's Delay of Divine Justice. He died in 1893.

PEABODY, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, lawyer, jurist, was born July 10, 1814, in Sandwich, N. H. He has twice been judge of the supreme court of New York, and also has been judge of the United States provisional court of Louisiana, and chief justice of the supreme court of the state of Louisiana. Nearly the whole of his professional life has been spent in New York city, with the exception of the few years, during the war, when he was presiding over the courts above mentioned in the south.