Ephraim Peabody (22 March 1807 – 28 November 1856) was a Unitarian clergyman from the United States.

Biography

He was born in

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. He graduated from

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in 1827, studied theology in

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, and began to preach in 1830 at

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. He was minister for four years in

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, pastor of a Unitarian church at

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, during 1838–1846, and for the remainder of his life pastor of

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, Boston. While serving at King's Chapel, Peabody happened to marry famous

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portrait-painter

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to Louise Perkins in 1855.Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, ''FamilySearch''(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWBG-S1C : 7 December 2017), William M Hunt and Louisa D Perkins, 18 Oct 1855; citing , Boston, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,433,014. Peabody was the originator of the Boston Provident Society, and was otherwise largely interested in devising measures for the relief of the poor. During 1853 he travelled in Europe to benefit his health, and spent the winter of 1855/56 in

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, with the same object. He died in Boston, Massachusetts, on 28 November 1856. Peabody was favorably known as a pulpit orator. His sermons, with a memoir, were published in 1857, and a volume of his writings, entitled ''Christian Days and Thoughts'', was published in1858.

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External links

* A
autograph book
kept by Ephraim Peabody covering the period 1717-1849 and including letters from many leading Unitarians an
the papers of Ephraim Peabody
are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at

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