Ephraim Peabody
Ephraim Peabody (22 March 1807 – 28 November 1856) was a Unitarian clergyman from the United States. Biography. He was born in Wilton, New Hampshire. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1827, studied theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and began to preach in 1830 at Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was minister for four years in Cincinnati, pastor of a Unitarian church at New Bedford, Massachusetts, during 1838–1846, and for the remainder of his life pastor of King's Chapel, Boston. While serving at King's Chapel, Peabody happened to marry famous Boston portrait-painter William Morris Hunt to Louise Perkins in  1855. Peabody was the originator of the Boston Provident Society, and was otherwise largely interested in devising measures for the relief of the poor. During 1853 he travelled in Europe to benefit his health, and spent the winter of 1855/56 in St. Augustine, Florida, with the same object. He died in Boston, Massachusetts, on 28 November 1856. Peabody was favorably known as a pulpit orator. His sermons, with a memoir, were published in 1857, and a volume of his writings, entitled "Christian Days and Thoughts", was published in1858.