Peabody (Elizabeth Palmer) is born in Billerica.

The daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Palmer) Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody grows up in Salem, moves to Boston briefly in 1822, and returns to teach school in 1825. She serves as secretary to William Ellery Channing, starts a school with her sister Mary in 1826, teaches at the Temple School (1834-1836), and lives at a number of addresses, then moves with her family to today’s 13 – 15 West Street (then 13 West Street) and opens a bookstore in 1840.* Peabody becomes an author, speaker, publisher, abolitionist, and feminist, a leading figure in the Transcendentalist Movement, and comes to be called “Boston’s Grandmother.” She moves to Newton, Concord, Cambridge, and then to Jamaica Plain, where she dies in the Gordon Hotel on January 3, 1894. Peabody is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.