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	Peabody - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It contains the Peabody institute (1852), a gift of George Peabody; in 1909 the institute had a library of 43,200 vols., and in connexion with it is the Eben Dale Sutton reference library, containing 4100 vols.
		In the institute is the portrait of Queen Victoria given by her to Mr Peabody.
		Peabody was originally a part of the township of Salem.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Peabody (242 words)

	Welcome to the City of Peabody Online! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1838, Peabody played an important role in the rescue of the financial fortunes of the state of Maryland and other states by his support of their bonds.
		At the close of the Civil War, he established the Peabody Education Fund to "encourage the intellectual, moral, and industrial education of the destitute children of the Southern States." His grandest beneficence, however, was to Baltimore; the city in which he achieved his earliest success.
		At the request of the Dean of Westminster and with the approval of the Queen, Peabody was given a temporary burial in Westminster Abbey.
	www.peabody-ma.gov /georgepeabody.htm (810 words)

	Peabody Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a conservatory and preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon area of Baltimore, Maryland.
		The Peabody Conservatory of Music, one of the divisions of the Institute, is considered one of the leading music conservatories in the United States, boasting a renowned faculty and students from across the globe.
		Under the direction of well-known musicians, composers, conductors, and Peabody alumni, the Institute grew from a local academy to an internationally renowned cultural center throughout the late 19th and the 20th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peabody_Institute (265 words)

	George Peabody
		Peabody matured his plans in 1862 for building lodging-houses for the poor of London, contributing in all $2,500,000, with which, to the present time (1888), buildings have been erected in different districts of the metropolis, capable of accommodating 20,000 persons.
		Peabody's great wealth was due in part to his patriotism and sagacity, which induced him to invest largely in United States government bonds during the civil war.
		Peabody's final resting-place, it was only owing to his own desire to sleep by the side of his mother's grave in his native land.
	www.famousamericans.net /georgepeabody (1047 words)

	George Peabody
		George Peabody, founder of the Peabody Institute, was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1795, into a family of modest means.
		In 1838, Peabody played an important role in the rescue of the financial fortunes of the state of Maryland and other states by his support of their bonds, at a time when the market was flooded with such instruments.
		Peabody died in London on November 4, 1869 and, at the request of the Dean of Westminster and with the approval of the Queen, was given a temporary burial in Westminster Abbey.
	www.peabodyhistorical.org /gpeabody.htm (826 words)

	Johns Hopkins University: Peabody Institute
		Founded in 1857 as America’s first conservatory of music, the Peabody Institute is as internationally famous in music as Johns Hopkins is in medicine.
		The Institute also operates the Peabody Preparatory, one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious community music and dance schools.
		Peabody faculty, students, and alumni have taken top prizes in the most prestigious competitions, from the Tchaikovsky in Moscow to the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium.
	www.johnshopkins.edu /divisions/peabody/index.html (291 words)

	George Peabody (1795-1869) and Peabody Park at UNCG
		PEABODY, GEORGE (Feb. 18, 1795–Nov. 4, 1869), merchant, financier, philanthropist, was born in South Danvers, now Peabody, Mass., the son of Thomas and Judith (Dodge) Peabody.
		Peabody was an incorporator and the president of the Eastern Railroad, built in 1836, and his experience in railroad financing showed him the profitable character of capital importation.
		Most of Peabody’s large fortune was spent in philanthropy, a generosity which was unusual and startling in that age.
	rjohara.net /peabody/gpeabody.html (921 words)

	Peabody Massachusetts, 1890
		The Peabody Institute, founded in 1852 by the late George Peabody with a munificent donation of $200,000, has a very handsome edifice, containing a free library of upwards of 28,000 volumes, and a large and valuable scientific museum.
		George Peabody, D.C.L., a successful banker and a philanthropist, was born within the limits of this town February 18, 1795, and died in London, England, November 4,1869.
		The town of Peabody was formerly a part of Salem, and was included in the territory set off as the town of Danvers.
	capecodhistory.us /Mass1890/Peabody1890.htm (557 words)

	Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases
		Kim, 27, and Tobey, 44, are double-degree graduates of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.
		Donald Sutherland is professor of organ at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.
		Peabody is as internationally famous in music as Johns Hopkins is in medicine and encourages the composition and performance of music in the most diverse styles, offering innovative programs for the interaction of music and technology.
	www.jhu.edu /news_info/news/univ99/nov99/nyeve.html (1389 words)

	Peabody - MSN Encarta
		He then settled in London, where he established the banking and brokerage firm of George Peabody and Company and amassed a considerable fortune.
		Peabody is best known for his numerous benefactions in the field of American education.
		From the last-named came the funds to establish what was later called the George Peabody College for Teachers, in Nashville, Tennessee.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554162/Peabody_George.html (131 words)

	Peabody Institute - The Advocate
		The Institute's Peabody Conservatory is highly regarded in the world of music, often mentioned in the same breath as the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, and boasts a long line of distinguished students, including composer Leonard Bernstein, pianist Andre Watts and singer Tori Amos.
		One of the highlights of the campus is the George Peabody Library.
		Students living at the Peabody are within walking distance of some of Baltimore's richest cultural treasures -- the Walters Art Museum, Center Stage, The Mechanic Theatre, the Lyric Opera House and the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
	www.stamfordadvocate.com /features/bal-hl-peabody,0,1348688.story (774 words)

	Peabody
		Confusion resulted from the similarly named towns, and it was decided in 1868 to rename South Danvers after George Peabody, the international financier and philanthropist born in 1795 at 205 Washington Street, South Danvers.
		The population of the town grew steadily until the town meeting form of government grew too cumbersome.
		In 1916 the citizens of Peabody voted to become the thirty-seventh city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ma/county/essex/south/peabody.htm (158 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, dates from the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857.
		The Peabody Institute, according to George Peabody's charter, originally comprised a free public library, a lecture series, a conservatory of music and an art collection.
		Peabody and Company financed the westward expansion of the American railroads and the laying of the first transatlantic cables.
	www.peabodyevents.library.jhu.edu /history.html (658 words)

	biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		George Peabody was born in South Danvers, Massachusetts, on February 18,1795.
		He founded and endowed Peabody Museums at Harvard, Yale, and Salem, Mass.; a Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore; and in that city also a Peabody Institute Library.
		George Peabody was buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery family lot, in the town of his birth.
	www.dodgefamily.org /Biographies/GeorgePeabody_PostMillsVermont.shtml (940 words)

	Johns Hopkins Magazine
		In a small room at Peabody Institute, about 40 people in the graying decades of their lives are watching a brightly hued past.
		Peabody's Elderhostel is now running at about 80 percent capacity, partly because of a subdued economy and travel concerns post-September 11, says Woodfield, who adds that several Elderhostelers have told him that the program's music has helped them forget for a while what is going on in the world.
		Peabody's program is Protopapas' 16th, the last entry in the blue-gray passport some Elderhostelers keep to enter their destinations.
	www.jhu.edu /~jhumag/0402web/peabody.html (3445 words)

	George Peabody - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peabody was made a Freeman of the City of London, the motion being proposed by Charles Reed in recognition of his financial contribution to London's poor.
		At the close of the American Civil War, he established the Peabody Education Fund to "encourage the intellectual, moral, and industrial education of the destitute children of the Southern States." His grandest beneficence, however, was to Baltimore; the city in which he achieved his earliest success.
		Peabody is the acknowledged father of modern philanthropy, having established the practice later followed by Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Bill Gates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Peabody (716 words)

	Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University : 1 E. Mount Vernon Place : Baltimore, MD 21202-2308 :The Morning Call ...
		The Peabody Institute, one of the most prestigious musical institutions in the world, was also the first conservatory in America.
		Founded in 1857 by philanthropist George Peabody, the Institute was purchased by the Johns Hopkins University in 1977 and has been under the direction of Hopkins ever since.
		The Peabody Institute is comprised of the Peabody Conservatory and the Peabody Preparatory.
	www.mcall.com /news/nationworld/60200,0,5612851.location (520 words)

	QE\|A Peabody Institute
		The Peabody Institute was founded in 1857 as America’s first conservatory of music and Baltimore’s first public library.
		ARCHITECTS transformed Peabody’s campus by opening it to the neighborhood, enhancing its historic facilities, creating new music education spaces, and improving existing space to meet modern performance standards.
		The new arcade, designed to be Peabody’s “main street,” creates a central circulation spine and serves as a gathering space for students, faculty, and patrons.
	www.quinnevans.com /projects/peabody.html (172 words)

	Elderhostel : Program Detail - Overview and Description
		The Peabody Inn, in Baltimore's historic Mt. Vernon area, provides comfortable accommodations to participants in the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University's Elderhostel program.
		Peabody Inn You will be staying at Peabody Inn the night before.
		Peabody Inn entrance is at 605 North Charles Street (NOTE: the street sign refers to this block as Washington Place).
	www.elderhostel.org /Programs/programdetail.asp?RowId=1-GBCAM (2074 words)

	Peabody History
		The Peabody Library remained part of the Peabody Institute until 1966 when the library collection was transferred to the City of Baltimore and administered as a department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
		The George Peabody Library is now a part of the Special Collections Department of the university's Sheridan Libraries.
		Peabody's original gift, the George Peabody Library is a non-circulating collection open to the general public.
	www.library.jhu.edu /collections/specialcollections/rarebooks/peabody/peabodyhis.html (398 words)

	Center for Talented Youth - Search
		Institute has a preeminent faculty, a nuturing, collaborative learning enviornment, and the academic resources of one of the nation's leading universities, Johns Hopkins.
		Institute of Johns Hopkins Hospital is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art medical and surgical care in all aspects of adult and pediatric urology.
		Institute is an internationally recognized facility dedicated to improving the lives of children and adolescents with pediatric developmental disabilities through patient care, special education,...
	search.jhu.edu /gifted/query.html?qt=institute (432 words)

	Opera at Peabody \| Philosophy
		On this site, you can read about the ways in which the Peabody Opera Department brings singers together into a community of artists, where the ability to communicate with an audience is a simple extension of the act of sharing with one another.
		The Peabody Chamber Opera presents performances of baroque opera, contemporary opera, and musical theater in a variety of venues such as the Walters Art Gallery and Baltimore’s Theatre Project, besides those in our own auditiorium, for a total of around 40 performances annually.
		The mission of the Peabody Opera Department is to develop singers with the interpretive skills, dramatic understanding, range of experience, and above all professionalism required for continuing success in the opera field.
	www.peabodyopera.org (655 words)

	Peabody Court Hotel Downtown Baltimore hotel near Inner Harbor and Baltimore Convention Center
		Peabody Court ~ A Clarion Hotel is a downtown Baltimore Hotel providing boutique lodging accommodations in the historic Mt. Vernon neighborhood.
		Peabody Court is within walking distance to many area attractions including Walters Art Museum, Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, Ravens Stadium, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, National Aquarium and much more.
		From the moment you enter Peabody Court, there’s no mistaking our mission: to surround you with the warmth and charm of a historic hotel and to provide you with the gracious amenities and services that are the mark of our world-class hospitality.
	www.peabodycourthotel.com (370 words)

	Peabody Library
		The George Peabody Library is a remarkable research library housed in a remarkable building.
		The goal of the Peabody Library's first librarian was to build a library that contained the best and latest literature in all branches of knowledge except law and medicine.
		The George Peabody Library is also available as an event space; for rental information, please call 410-659-8197 or visit the Peabody Library Events page.
	www.georgepeabodylibrary.jhu.edu (432 words)

	George Peabody
		George Peabody was a banker and financier who was born in Danvers, Massachusetts in 1795.
		George Peabody volunteered for the War of 1812 at the age of 17 as the British marched on Washington.
		In 1857 he founded an institute in Baltimore to promote the cultural life of the city that is now the Peabody Institute (a music conservatory).
	www.drbronsontours.com /bronsongeorgepeabody.html (485 words)

	S. M. Smoller Resume
		Presented to 500 sixth graders on the 188th anniversary of Ferrin's birth, with funding from the Peabody Education Council.
		9/92 Organizer of ceremony and placement of granite commemorative markers at Crystal Lake, a Peabody conservation area, honoring witch hysteria victims Martha and Giles Corey during the observance of the Witch Tercentennary.
		Funded by the Peabody Education Council, 1995 and the Burke PTO, 1997.
	www.peabody.k12.ma.us /resume.html (1214 words)

	George Peabody (1795-1869) : August 2005 - Posts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		W.S. Wetmore was the father of George Peabody Wetmore, R.I. governor, U.S. senator, and trustee of PEF and the Peabody Museum of Yale).
		To Which is appended an Historical Sketch of the Peabody Institute, with the Exercises at the Laying of the Corner-stone and at the Dedication (Boston: H.W. Dutton & Son, 1856).
		Charles Peabody was a Harvard Ph.D. archaeologist at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and a curator at the Peabody Museum of Harvard).
	free-blog-site.com /bfparker/archive/2005/08.aspx (15442 words)

	Kennedy Center: Millennium Stage Artist Details for The Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University
		Established in 1857 as Americaâs first conservatory of music, the Peabody Institute is internationally famous.
		While the Institute transmits the great European classical traditions, it also encourages the composition and performance of classical and jazz contemporary music in the most diverse styles.
		Peabody faculty, students and alumni have taken top prizes in the worldâs most prestigious music competitions from the Tchaikovsky in Moscow to the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium.
	www.kennedy-center.org /programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=PEABODYCON (448 words)

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