214:, where his father established a farm. Peabody helped clear the land and labored on the house, starting with the stonework for the cellar. Peabody planned to get an education so that he was not held down by a life as a poor farmer in New Hampshire like his father, and later siblings. It is unknown how he was schooled in his boyhood to be accepted by an academy and to pay tuition, but Peabody attended
250:, founded a co-educational school, North Parish School, and Rev. Stephen Peabody hired Peabody to teach the boys and Eliza to teach the girls beginning January 1801. Eliza's health deteriorated due to the workload of preparing for and teaching classes and the strain from rumors about the two teachers. She went to the home of her aunt Elizabeth Palmer Cranch in
341:. Although he had not attained a medical degree, he may have been accepted due to his training under Dr. John Jeffries and having five years experience in his medical practice. Peabody was the secretary for the Medical Society in 1817. In the 1820s, Peabody adopted homeopathic medical practices of Dr.
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Sophia's husband, Nathaniel
Hawthorne wrote "Rappaccini's Daughter", a short story in 1844. There are several theories about who Hawthorne modeled Rappaccinni, who poisoned his daughter, after. One theory is that Rappaccini was modeled after Peabody. Sophia suffered from teething as a baby and later
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Eliza operated a school and boarding house for girls out of the family's row house along Union Street. She engaged young women who received an education and a place to live in exchange for their domestic work. In 1817 and 1818, Peabody sat on the Salem School
Committee. In 1834, he managed the Salem
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from 1820 to 1822 and in Boston from 1828 to 1840. Peabody's brother
Captain John Peabody, married in 1807 to Elizabeth Manning, lived in Salem. They spent time together, enjoying their growing families and supporting one another. John loaned Peabody money as he built his medical practice. When John
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Peabodys were a two-income family. Peabody was an apothecary, doctor, and dentist. Eliza advocated for preschool child education and taught school. Eliza believed in the value of educated women, generally and as mothers. She said "the fate of our Country, is in some degree dependent, upon the
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Peabody and Eliza were married on
November 2, 1802 in Andover. Eliza realized that her husband had a hard time adjusting to a life off of the farm and what she called his "constitutional timidity" meant that he had a hard time living up to the educational progress that he had made at the academy.
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when he contracted and died of yellow fever in
September 1837. George contracted spinal tuberculosis and was bedridden for two years before he died in November 1839 at the Peabody house in Salem. Nathaniel sold homeopathic medicine to support his wife and children in the 1840s. Later, Nathaniel
386:, in 1824. In the 1830s, Peabody used hypnosis as a pain management technique for extractions. By 1837, Peabody had a dental practice and lived on Charter Street, near the Charter Street Burying Point (now in the
246:, in early 1800 while he was still at Dartmouth. Eliza encouraged their relationship through letter-writing, sharing her poetry with him, mending his clothes, and giving him handmade gifts. A few residents of
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Peabody also worked in the relatively new practice of dentistry, experimenting with new dental practices. While the family lived in Boston, Peabody kept a dental office in Salem. Peabody published the book,
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from migraine headaches. She was said to have been treated by
Peabody with his experimental regime of homeopathic medicine that was poisonous. One of the medicines he administered to her was
265:, where Peobody was an apprentice to Dr. Pemberton to become a physician. They lived on a farm, where Eliza opened a school. The Peabodys had their first daughter one month after the move.
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In their first year of marriage, Eliza took in her youngest brother George (14) and sister
Catherine (11) and opened a boardinghouse for students. In April 1804, the couple moved to
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