Peabody

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P0130400 (pē′bŏd′ē, -bə-dē), Elizabeth Palmer 1804-1894. American educator and writer who founded the first English-language kindergarten in the United States (1860).

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(ˈpiːˌbɒdɪ) n (Biography) George. 1795–1869, US merchant, banker, and philanthropist in the US and England

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(ˈpiˌbɒd i, -bə di)

n. 1. Elizabeth Palmer, 1804–94, U.S. educator: founded the first U.S. kindergarten. 2. George, 1795–1869, U.S. merchant and philanthropist in England.

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Peabody - educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894)Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody

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(pē`bədē, –bädē), city (1990 pop. 47,039), Essex co., NE Mass., a suburb of Boston, on the Danvers River; settled c.1633, inc. as South Danvers 1855, name changed 1868. Little is left of its tanning industry, which began early in the 18th cent., but leather goods, chemicals, electronic equipment, precision instruments, plastics, and fabricated metals are produced. The city is also a major retail center. The Peabody Institute library contains much of the memorabilia of George PeabodyPeabody, George
, 1795–1869, American financier and philanthropist, b. South Danvers (now Peabody), Mass. At the age of 11 he was apprenticed to a grocer, and later (1814) he became a partner in a dry-goods firm in Georgetown, D.C. (now in Washington, D.C.).
..... Click the link for more information. , the philanthropist, for whom the city was named.

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George. 1795--1869, US merchant, banker, and philanthropist in the US and England

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noun educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894)

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