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William Bourn Oliver Peabody was an American clergyman.
Background
William Bourn Oliver Peabody was born on July 9, 1799 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. He was a twin brother of Oliver William Bourn Peabody and the eighth of ten children of Oliver and Frances (Bourn) Peabody, and fifth in descent from Francis Peabody who emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first at Ipswich and later in Topsfield, Massachussets. His father, a graduate of Harvard College, was a lawyer and politician, president of the state Senate in 1813 and associate justice of the court of common pleas, 1813 - 1816.
Education
William Bourn Oliver Peabody attended Phillips Exeter Academy under Benjamin Abbot from 1808 to 1813, graduated from Harvard College in 1816, taught at Phillips Exeter for a year, returned to Cambridge to complete his theological course with the younger Henry Ware.
Career
On October 12, 1820 William Bourn Oliver Peabody was ordained as pastor of the Third Congregational (Unitarian) Society of Springfield, Massachussets, to which he ministered until his death some twenty-seven years later. Despite a frail constitution and much positive ill health he performed the duties of his office with exemplary tact and devotion and was held in veneration by his parishioners and fellow citizens. Early in life he had resolved to shun dogmatism and the sectarian spirit, but he was a close student of the Bible, and his sermons, painstakingly wrought out with both a religious and a literary conscience, were sermons and not mere essays. His literary work was by no means negligible. To Jared Sparks's Library of American Biography he contributed lives of Alexander Wilson (vol. II, 1834), Cotton Mather (vol. VI, 1836), David Brainerd (vol. VIII, 1837), and James Oglethorpe (2 ser. , vol. II, 1844). For over twenty years he was a frequent contributor to the North American Review. He also wrote a great deal for the Christian Examiner, contributed occasionally to annuals, and published nine sermons and addresses.
As a commissioner appointed by Gov. Edward Everett, William Bourn Oliver Peabody prepared A Report on the Ornithology of Massachusetts (1839) which is notable chiefly for its observations on the economic value of birds and its plea for their preservation. It lists 286 species but is less an independent treatise than an appendix to Thomas Nuttall's Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada (1832 - 1834). He was also something of a poet, author of a Poetical Catechism (1823) and of several occasional poems and hymns.
William Bourn Oliver Peabody edited the Springfield Collection of Hymns for Sacred Worship (1835). The whole range of his literary work is well displayed in two posthumous volumes, Sermons by the Late William B. O. Peabody (1849; 2 ed. ) and The Literary Remains of the Late William B. O. Peabody (1850). His last sermon, preached twelve days before his death, was on the text, "To be spiritually minded is life and peace. " William Bourn Oliver Peabody died at Springfield and was buried in the Springfield Cemetery.
Achievements
William Bourn Oliver Peabody was best known for his biographies of David Brainerd, Cotton Mather, James Oglethorpe, and Alexander Wilson. His poems such as "Hymn of Nature", "Monadnock", "Death", "The Autumn Evening", and "The Winter Night" were well known.
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Membership
William Bourn Oliver was a member of the Third Congregational (Unitarian) Society of Springfield, Massachussets.
Connections
On September 8, 1824, William Bourn Oliver Peabody married Elizabeth Amelia White. They had a daughter and four sons. The death of his wife, October 4, 1843, and of his daughter, January 28, 1844, were severe trials to William Bourn Oliver Peabody, and thereafter his health declined steadily.
