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PEABODY 897 PEASLEE Peabody, George Livingston 1850-1909) George Livingston Peabody was the son of Charles Augustus Peabody, of a well-known New England family, and of Julia Livingston, of an equally distinguished family of New York. He was born in New York City, Aug. 27, 1850. He died of angina pectoris in New- port, Rhode Island, October 30, 1914, aged si.xty-four years. Receiving his early education at the Columbia Grammar School in New York City, he was a graduate of Columbia Univer- sity in the class of 1870, at which time he re- ceived the degree of A. B. Dr. Peabody graduated from the Medical Department of Columbia University in the class of 1873, receiving the degree of M. D., and at the same time the degree of A. M. After graduation he served on the house-staff of Roosevelt Hospital for one and one-half years. He then went abroad to continue his medical education in Vienna, Strasburg, Paris, and London, returned to New York in 1878 and was appointed pathologist to the New York Hospital. He was married to Jane dePeyster Huggins of New York City on April 18, 1833. They had one daughter. Appointed lecturer on medicine in the medi- cal department of Columbia University, he held this position from 1884 to 1887 and was then appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics, holding the professorship until 1903. In 1909 he retired from practice. He was attending physician to the New York Hospital from 1884 to 1909, and was then appointed consulting physician. He was attending physi- cian to the Roosevelt, Bellevue, and St. Luke's Hospitals. He was elected a trustee of Colum- bia University in 1884, retaining this position until 1890, and was also a member of the university council from 1891 until 1895. Pea- body was editor of the Supplement to Ziems- sen's Cyclopedia, 1881, and wrote some half dozen other articles. Frederic S. Dennis. Peabody, James H. (1833-1906) James H. Peabody's ancestors on both sides were English, his first American antecedent was Lieut. Francis Peabody, who came from St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, in 1865, to New England. George Peabody, the noted philan- thropist, was a nephew and reared in the family of John Peabody, the grandfather of the doctor. Dr. Peabody's mother was Amelia Humphries Cathcart, and he was born at Washington, District of Columbia, on the seventh of March, 1833. After having been a page in the National House of Representatives he was later given a clerkship in 1852 in the Pension office. Dur- ing his service in the Pension office he com- pleted a seven years' course of study in the University of Georgetown, receiving his dip- loma in 1860. Towards the end of his course he practised medicine before and after the regular hours of his other employment. After being mustered out in 1865, he pur- sued some special medical study in Bellevue College, New York, and moved to Omaha in the spring of 1866. Here he served as acting assistant-surgeon in the army with special detail to attend the officers and their families in Omaha, and was eventually made brevet lieutenant-colonel by President Johnson. He also engaged in general practice at that time. Dr. Peabody occupied many important and influential positions in Omaha and in Nebraska. In his office in May, 1868, the Nebraska State Medical Association was organized and he became its second president. He married, on May 26, 1859, Mary Virginia Dent, of Louisville, Kentucky, and a second time, in 1867, Jennie Yates, of Omaha. His death occurred in Omaha, September 9, 1906. He was professor of surgery for many years in Creighton Medical College and attending physi- cian to St. Joseph's Hospital. In the early years of the State Medical As- sociation he contributed interesting accounts of important surgical cases. H. WiNNETT Orr. Morton's History of Nebraska, 1882, vol. i. Portrait. Western Med. Rev., Lincoln, Neb., 1906, vol. xi, 238. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., 1906, xlvii, 953. Peaslee, Edmund Randolph (1814-1878) Edmund Randolph Peaslee was one of the important personages in the history of Ameri- can medicine. To him the profession owes a debt of gratitude for his pioneer work in abdominal and pelvic surgery. The son of Hon. James and Abigail Chase Peaslee, the eldest of four children, he was born in New- ton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, January 22, 1914. His father died when Ed- mund was seven years old. His preliminary education was meagre and he attended school at the New Hampton and Atkinson academies, where he prepared for Dartmouth College, which he entered when he was eighteen years of age, in 1832. There are no data of his boyhood days and little is known of his life previous to his entering college. He gradu- ated with distinguished honors in the class of 1836, having as a classmate Samuel C. Bart-