Selim Peabody
{{Short description|American educator and mathematician (1829–1903)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Selim Peabody
| birth_name = Selim Hobart Peabody
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1829|08|20}}
| birth_place = Rockingham, Vermont, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1903|05|26|1829|08|20}}
| death_place = St. Louis, Missouri, US
| image = 3902020 Peabody1880s-800x1200.jpg
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| alt =
| caption = Peabody {{circa|1880}}
| order = 2nd
| office = President of the University of Illinois system
| term_start = 1880
| term_end = 1891
| predecessor = John Milton Gregory
| successor = Thomas Jonathan Burrill
| alma_mater = University of Vermont
| profession = College administrator
}}
Selim Hobart Peabody (August 20, 1829 – May 26, 1903) was an American educator.
Biography
Selim Peabody was born in Rockingham, Vermont.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lcVKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA271 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=I |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=271 |year=1893 |access-date=2021-04-12 |via=Google Books}} He graduated at the University of Vermont in 1852, during the following years held professorships of mathematics, physics, and engineering at several colleges, and from 1880 to 1891 was president of the University of Illinois. In 1893, he was chief of the department of liberal arts at the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1899–1900 editor and statistician of the United States Commission to the Paris Exposition, and in 1900 superintendent of the division of liberal arts at the Pan-American Exposition. From 1892 to 1895, he served as president of the Chicago Academy of Sciences and from 1889 to 1891 as president of the National Council of Education. Peabody was an associate editor of the International Cyclopædia, under Editor-in-Chief Harry Thurston Peck.
He died in St. Louis on May 26, 1903.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75657459/famous-educator-dies-of-apoplexy/ |title=Famous Educator Dies of Apoplexy |newspaper=The Los Angeles Record |location=St. Louis, Missouri |page=2 |date=1903-05-26 |access-date=2021-04-12 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Selected publications
- Astronomy (1869)
- Juvenile Natural History (three volumes, 1869)
- New Practical Arithmetic (1872)
- American Patriotism (1880)
- Charts of Arithmetic (1900)
- Peabody Genealogy (Paybody, Pabody, Pabodie) (1909), Compiled by Selim Hobart Peabody, LL. D., Edited by Charles Henry Pope, Boston, Mass., Charles H. Pope, Publisher, Pope Building, (Advance funding by Mr. Frank Everett Peabody)
References
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Category:19th-century American mathematicians
Category:American non-fiction writers
Category:Leaders of the University of Illinois
Category:People from Rockingham, Vermont