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Peabody, Selim Hobart

educator, scientist, author, was born Aug. 20, 1829, in Rockingham, Vt. He has been president of the university of Illinois; president of the Chicago Academy of Sciences; president of State Teachers' associations of Wisconsin and Illinois; president of the National Council of Education; and in 1893 he was chief of the department of liberal arts, World's Columbian exposition. He is the author of works on natural history, arithmetic, astronomy; compiler of American Patriotism, and first editor-in-chief of the International Encyclopedia.