. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. nt should keep pace with her materialgrowth. INSCRIPTION ON THE TABLET ERECTED TO THEMEMORY OF GEORGE PEABODY IN THE HALL OF FAME. GEORGE PEABODY, the famous merchant and theeminent philanthropist, was born in South Danvers,now for many years named in his honor, Peabody,Massachusetts, February 18, 1795. He attended the villageschool as soon as he was old enough to go until he was elevenyears old, when he was hired as a helper in
. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. nt should keep pace with her materialgrowth. INSCRIPTION ON THE TABLET ERECTED TO THEMEMORY OF GEORGE PEABODY IN THE HALL OF FAME. GEORGE PEABODY, the famous merchant and theeminent philanthropist, was born in South Danvers,now for many years named in his honor, Peabody,Massachusetts, February 18, 1795. He attended the villageschool as soon as he was old enough to go until he was elevenyears old, when he was hired as a helper in a grocery the proprietor was a good man, who regarded theboy with affection, and gave him such ideas of businesshonor and wise business conduct that his association was ofgreat value to Peabody, not only in his early life, butduring his entire career. In after years, George Peabody was always ready to ascribe the remarkable success of his business life to the sound New England training he received in his boyhood. It was, he wrote forty-five years after, when the people of Danvers were having some anniversary celebration, as 201 a=5 m , * . i * *.. THE HALL OF FAME many ot you know, in a very humble house, in the SouthParish that I was born, and from the common schools of thatParish, such as they were, in 1803 to 1807, I obtained thelimited education my parents means could afford; but to theprinciples there inculcated in childhood and early youth, Iowe much of the foundations far such success as heaven hasbeen pleased to grant me during a long business life. Two characteristic stories of young Peabodys energyand activity, are related by one of his biographers: It appears that among other duties devolving upon theassistant of Mr. Proctor, was that of the manufacture ofwhips; and Mr. Proctor had often extolled the dexterityof one Life Smith, a man previously in his employ, who inone day had made six dozen of these same whips, which wasdeemed a brilliant specimen of d
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