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Peabody, Thomas Hazard

lawyer, journalist, was born Sept. 23, 1839, in North Stonington, Conn. In 1888 he began the publication of the Westerly Daily Tribune, R. I., the first prohibition daily newspaper in the world, and he still remains the editor and owner. He has been a member of the general assembly of Rhode Island, and has been the prohibition candidate for governor and for congressman several times. PEABODY, WILLIAM BOURNE OLI- VER, clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1799 in New Hampshire. He was a unitarian clergyman, pastor of a church in Springfield, Mass., in 1820-47. He was. the author of Lives of A. Wilson, Cotton Mather, Brainerd, and Oglethorpe, in Sparke's American Biography; and Report on Birds of the Commonwealth. As a poet he is best represented by such poems as Monadnock; Hymn of Nature; and Winter Night. He died May 28, 1847, in Springfield, Mass.