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American Baptist Foreign Mission Society's (WABFMS) foreign department. Peabody and Helen Barrett Montgomery were delegates to the Edinburgh Continuation Committee in The Hague in 1913. From 1913 to 1914, Montgomery and Peabody toured and inspected missions throughout the world. In 1916, she played a key role in transforming the Interdenominational Conference into the Federation of Women's Boards of Foreign Missions. Peabody chaired a commission that studied mission schools and again toured missions around the world from 1919 to 1920. Peabody raised funds to establish seven Asian women's colleges from 1920 to 1923. She later served on the boards of three of the schools: the Shanghai Medical College; the
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