Background
Peabody, William Bourn Oliver was born on July 9, 1799 in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Oliver and Frances (Bourn) Peabody.
Peabody, William Bourn Oliver was born on July 9, 1799 in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Oliver and Frances (Bourn) Peabody.
Graduated from Harvard, 1816. Studied theology, 1818-1820.
Taught at Phillips Exeter Academy, 1817. Ordained to ministry Unitarian Church, 1820. Pastor 3d Congregational (Unitarian) Church, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1820-1847.
Author: Poetical Catechism, 1823. Springfield Collection of Hymns for Sacred Worship, 1835. A Report on the Ornithology of Massachusetts, 1839.
Married Elizabeth Amelia White, September 8, 1824.