Selim Hobart Peabody (August 20, 1829 – May 26, 1903) was an American

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Biography

Selim Peabody was born in

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. He graduated at the

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in 1852, during the following years held

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ships of

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, and

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at several colleges, and from 1880 to 1891 was president of the

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. In 1893, he was chief of the department of

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at the

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, in 1899–1900 editor and

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of the United States Commission to the Paris Exposition, and in 1900 superintendent of the division of liberal arts at the

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. From 1892 to 1895, he served as president of the

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and from 1889 to 1891 as president of the

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. Peabody was an associate editor of the '' International Cyclopædia'', under Editor-in-Chief Harry Thurston Peck. He died in St. Louis on May 26, 1903.

Selected publications

* ''Astronomy'' (1869) * ''Juvenile Natural History'' (three volumes, 1869) * ''New Practical Arithmetic'' (1872) * ''American Patriotism'' (1880) * ''Charts of Arithmetic'' (1900) * ''Peabody Genealogy (Paybody, Pabody, Pabodie)'' (1909), Compiled by Selim Hobart Peabody, LL. D., Edited by Charles Henry Pope, Boston, Mass., Charles H. Pope, Publisher, Pope Building, (Advance funding by Mr. Frank Everett Peabody)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Peabody, Selim 1829 births 1903 deaths 19th-century American mathematicians American non-fiction writers Leaders of the University of Illinois People from Rockingham, Vermont University of Vermont alumni Writers from Vermont