Peabody, Mary H.

Mary Parkman Peabody, the eldest of five children of Henry Parkman and Mary Frances (Parker) Parkman, was born on July 24, 1891, in Beverly, Massachusetts. She embarked on a trip around the world in 1912, traveling to India, Burma, Ceylon, China, Japan, and the Philippines. In 1916, she married Malcolm Peabody, son of Fannie and Endicott Peabody, the founder of Groton School. They had five children: Mary, known as Marietta (1917-1991), Endicott (1920-1997), George (born 1922), Samuel (born 1925), and Malcolm, Jr. (born 1928). Malcolm Peabody served as rector of Episcopal churches in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, before becoming bishop of central New York. In 1964, at the age of 72, Mary Peabody joined a civil rights demonstration in St. Augustine, Florida, and was arrested for participating in a sit-in at a segregated motel dining room; she spent two nights in jail, drawing praise from Martin Luther King, Jr. Her son Endicott was governor of Massachusetts at the time, and partly because of this, her arrest drew a great deal of press coverage. Following her return to Cambridge, Peabody remained active in the civil rights struggle and worked for the rights of American Indians and the establishment of a school in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Malcolm Peabody died in 1974 and Mary Peabody died of heart failure on February 6, 1981.

From the description of Papers, 1883-1997 (inclusive) 1904-1981 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008975