Nathaniel Peabody (March 30, 1774 – 1855) was a

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physician and dentist from

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and

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, having studied at Dartmouth. He was descended from John Paybody of

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of 1635, and in early Massachusetts records, the name of these ancestors was often spelled Pabodie. Nathaniel Peabody was a member of one of the prominent families recognized in society and known as the

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s. Married Elizabeth ("Eliza") Palmer (1778-1853). He was father of these three noteworthy intellectual women:

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (May 16, 1804January 3, 1894) was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic de ...

Mary Tyler Peabody Mann Mary Tyler Mann ( Peabody; November 16, 1806 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts – February 11, 1887 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) was a teacher, author, and mother. She was the wife of Horace Mann, American education reformer and politician. E ...

, and Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne.Ronda, Bruce A. 1999.

: A Reformer on Her Own Terms. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

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1774 births 1855 deaths 19th-century American physicians People from colonial Boston People of colonial Massachusetts {{US-physician-stub