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Sedgwick (Peabody), Helen

Helen Peabody's tombstone.

Helen Peabody (February 8, 1890 - September 6, 1948) was a socially prominent Boston, Massachusetts settlement worker.

Peabody was born on February 8, 1890 in Danvers, Massachusetts, as the daughter of Endicott Peabody and Fannie Peabody. She grew up in Massachusetts and removed to Boston, Massachusetts, where she worked as a settlement worker. Long active in prominent social work, she was president for more than 20 years of the Lincoln House in South Boston, and during World War I, she served two years overseas with the Y.M.C.A. auxiliary unit. During World War II, while her husband served as a colonel in the United States Army, she helped receive draftees at Fort Devens. She was a member of the Christ Episcopal Church in Needham, the Vincent Club, and the Boston Junior League.

On September 6, 1948, Peabody died at the House of Mercy Hospital from a sudden heart ailment after a weekend trip to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to attend a wedding.

Family[]

Peabody married Robert Minturn Sedgwick in 1925.

  • Henry Dwight Sedgwick II - m. (1) Helen Philips Burroughs (2) Patricia Ann Rosenwald
  • May Minturn Sedgwick - m. (1) Frederick Osborne
  • Frances Helen Sedgwick
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