Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Peabody, Andrew Preston
PEABODY, Andrew Preston, clergyman, b. in Beverly, Mass., 19 March, 1811 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 10 March, 1893. He was graduated at Harvard, and, after studying in the divinity-school and serving as mathematical tutor in the university, succeeded in 1833 Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker as pastor of the South parish (Unitarian) church in Portsmouth, N. H. He held this pastorate till 1860, when he was appointed preacher to the university and professor of Christian morals, and this relation was maintained till the commencement season of 1881. when, resigning to give his whole time to the completion of literary work that had been long in hand, he was given an emeritus appointment. In 1863 and again during the academic year of 1868-'9 he was acting president of the university. From student days he was ever an active literary worker. Re wrote sixty leading articles in "The Whig Review" in 1837-'59, was editor of the "North American Review " in 1852-'61, and has contributed frequently to "The Christian Examiner," "The New England Magazine," "The American Monthly," and other religious and educational publications. Besides more than a hundred special sermons, addresses, and orations, he has published "Lectures on Christian Doctrine" (Boston, 1844); "Sermons of Consolation" (1847); "Conversation: its Faults and its Graces" (1856); "Christianity the Religion of Nature" (1864); "Sermons for Children" (1866); "Reminiscences of European Travel" (New York, 1868); "Manual of Moral Philosophy"; "Christianity and Science" (Boston, 1874); "Christian Belief and Life" (1875); and "Harvard Reminiscences" (1888). He has also compiled a Sunday-school hymn-book (1840), and edited, with memoirs, the writings of James Kennard, Jr. (1847) ; Rev. Jason Whitman (1849); John W. Foster (1852) ; Cliarles A. Cheever, M. D. (1854); and William Plummer and William Plummer, Jr. (1857). He received the degree of D. D. from Harvard in 1853, and LL. D. from the University of Rochester in 1863.