Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-15

Inc capital constituency OF the state OF OhlO
may we'll feel proud of its representative in
the social world of the constituency Of the
whole people gathered at the national capital.
The wife of Joseph II. Cultivate, who occu-
pies appointment place in fashionable life, was
Miss Ellen r. Peabody in her maiden days.
She was born in the historic valley of the Mus
kingum near GAINESVILLE. Her father, jeremiah
u. Peabody, banker, was a brother of George
Peabody, the phianthropist of two continents
and one Of the most honored bankers of the
British metropolis. Jeremiah Peabody. was
his distinguished brother, was born at Danvers,
now Peabody, Mass. When grown to mans
estate, like many other sons of New England,
jeremiah went west and settled at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio. George, at eleven, country clerk,
about the same time went south and settled at
Georgetown. in the District of Columbia, and
began a clerk in his Uncle John Peabody's
store. Through her father, therefore, Mrs.
Cultivate is descended from an English family
of dissenting notions Of religion and civil
liberty, Francis Peabody, its representative in
those distant days, having settled in the colony
of Massac husetts Bay in 1896.
When Mrs. Cultivate was quite young her
mother died. Her father sent her back to
New England to an aunt Mrs. Russell, her
fathers sister, who resided near the ancestral
home. Here she passed her childhood and
girlhood days, receiving careful New Eng
land training amid the interesting associations
OF the paternal progenitors of her family.
maiden days Miss Peabody returned to her
fathers home in Ohio and was placed in the
Putnam female seminary, opposite GAINESVILLE,
where she graduated.
MEETING HER FATE.
1t was while attending school that Miss Pea
body met Joseph II. Cultivate. a handsome
youth, then pupil in the GAINESVILLE high
school, in which he was afterward a teacher
In 1870, while practicng law at Osceola, the
or rnfn 20
made Miss Peabody his bride. A year later he
left his distant western home, returning to
GAINESVILLE, and was soon after made prescott
ing attorney Of his county. After filling vari-
Gus places OF trust Mr.. Cultivate entered the
national arena as a Representative in the Forty
ninth Congress, and his beautiful and enter
tanning wife soon became one of the favorites
in Washington social life. Their two sons,
Singleton Peabody and Charles Peabody Outh-
waite, the former attending the Columbian
preparatory and the latter the public schools,
are fine lads. Mrs. Cultivate is a lady of
queely presence with peculiarly tender and
expressive face. She bears a strong resem-
blance to the Peabody branch of her family
and particularly the facial expression of benev-
olence which is familiar to the world in the
pictures Of her uncle, the great philanthroplst
DISTINGUISHED ANCESTOR.
Mrs. Cultivate recalls with great pleasure
the noble traits of her distinguished uncle,
which are also so well known to the world.
Having settled in Georgetown AS boy in 1914
he became the business partner of Elisha Riggs
in the dry goods trade. Removing to Baltimore
a year after he established branches in New
York and Philadelphia In 1897 he founded
the banking house Of George Peabody h Co. in
London and began his march to fortune and
the deeds of munificent charity which carried
him to the unrivaled point of fame in the walks
Of philanthropy. He was always an ardent
lover of his country. He established in 1851
the famous 4th Of July dinners in London, the
first of which was attended by the duke of
Wellington and to which the queen sent her
own and Prince Alberts portraits to decorate
the hall His numerous benefactons to his
native city and institutions in his native land
are known. His most princely gifts were
q, DOC, 600 for the benefit OF the poor of London
and 81, 500 900 for the promotion of the educa-
ton OF the youth Of the south. For the latter
deed the United States government gave him
its thanks and voted him a gold medal
The queen also in 1867 offered him
baronetcy the grand cross Of the
order of the Bath. But he declined both.
Being asked for her majesty what gift he
would accept he replied: "A letter from the
queen of England which l may carry across
the Atlantic and deposit as a memorial of one
of her most faithful sons. The queen COM
piled in letter acknowledging his more than
princely munifcence and accompanied the let
ter with portraits of herself, the prince con-
sort and the prince of Wales. A bronze statue
was also raised to him in London in 1869. His
death occurring in London, services were
celebrated in Westminster Abbey and his re-
mains in Difference to his wish to be buried in
his native soil were brought TO America in the
Monarch, the finest frigate of the royal navy,
and were received by the American fleet, COM
manded by Admiral Farragut. Gladstone
said of him that he taught how a man may be
the master of his fortune and not its slave The
philanthropist, who never married. after all his
bountifui hberaiity. left S5,000008 to be dis
tributed among his relatives. Mrs. Cultivate,
the niece OF this great benefactor, is a charm
ing representative in Washington social life of
the family blood Of this foremost of American
citizens.