Background
Peabody, Selim Hobart was born on August 20, 1829 in Rockingham, Vermont, United States. Son of Review Charles Hobart and Grace Stone (Ide) Peabody.
Peabody, Selim Hobart was born on August 20, 1829 in Rockingham, Vermont, United States. Son of Review Charles Hobart and Grace Stone (Ide) Peabody.
Graduate University of Vermont, 1852 (Doctor of Philosophy, 1877. Doctor of Laws, University of Iowa, 1881).
Principal Burlington, Vermont, High School, 1852. Professor mathematics, Fairfax, Vermont, 1853. Professor mathematics and civil engineering, Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1854.
Principal high school, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 1859.
Superintendent schools, Racine, Wisconsin, 1862. Professor physics, Chicago High School, 1865.
Professor mathematics and civil engineering Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1871. Professor mechanic engineering, Illinois Industrial University, 1878.
President University of Illinois, 1880-1891.
Chief department Liberal Arts, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893. Editor and statistician, United States Commission to Paris Exposition, 1899-1900. Superintendent division Liberal Arts, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, August 31, since 1900.
First editor-in-chief, later associate editor International Cyclopædia.
Secretary Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1874-1888. President, 1892-1895.
President National Council of Education, 1889-1891. Author: Astronomy, 1869.
Juvenile Natural History, 3 volumes, 1869.
New Practical Arithmetic, 1872. American Patriotism, 1880. Charts of Arithmetic, 1900.
Etc.
Home: Chicago, Illinois.
Married Mary Elizabeth Pangborn, 1852.