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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer

educator, author, was born May 16, 1804, in Billerica, Mass. She was a noted educator of Boston, and very active in awakening American interest in the kindergarten system, and in her early life associated in teaching with A. B. Alcott, as related in her Record of a School. Her other works include: Chronological History of the United States; Kindergarten Guide; Æsthetic Papers; Letters to Kindergarteners; First Steps to History; Reminiscences of Dr.

Channing; and Last Evening with Allston, and Other Papers. She died Jan. 4, 1894, in Jamaica Plains, Mass.