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    Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

    Birth: 5-16-1804

    Death: 1-3-1894

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Daughter of Nathanial Peabody and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Elizabeth became a prominent transcendentalist, philosopher, and educator. She went on to work in education reform, being the founder of the Kindergarten movement in the United States. She is the sister of Mary Taylor Peabody Mann, who mentions Elizabeth briefly in the letter 18610000MaryPeabodyMann_FMS.

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Daughter of Nathanial Peabody and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Elizabeth became a prominent transcendentalist, philosopher, and educator. She went on to work in education reform, being the founder of the Kindergarten movement in the United States. She is the sister of Mary Taylor Peabody Mann, who mentions Elizabeth briefly in the letter 18610000MaryPeabodyMann_FMS.
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