Portland Past and Present, 1899. Hon. Henry C Peabody. The probate court of this county is presided over by Judge Henry Clay Peabody, who has held the office continuously since January, 1880.
He was born in Gilead, Oxford County, Me., April 14, 1838, a son of John Tarbell and Mercy Ingalls (Burbank) Peabody. In 1839, he removed to Gorham, N. H. , where he resided until after his graduation from college. He attended schools and GouId's Academy, Bethel, Me., and fitted for college at Fryeburg Academy.
He afterwards entered and graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of '59. Choosing the legal profession, he read law in Portland in the office of General Samuel Fessenden.
In 1862, he was admitted to the bar in this county and began the successful practice of his profession in Portland. From the time of his admission to the bar until 1867, he was a partner of the late Judge Aaron B. Holden.
For several years he was a member of the school board. At the State election in the fall of 1879, he was elected judge of probate, taking his seat the following January.
His sound judgment in probate-and insolvency matters demonstrated his fitness for the important office and he has been regularly re-elected at the expiration of each term.
He has much ability as a public speaker, but he has not thought it proper while holding a judicial office to engage actively in political campaigns. He has been heard, however, at Memorial Day exercises and on other occasions of a public nature.
He served as chairman of the commission appointed Cleaves in 1895 to prepare uniform blanks and rules of practice and procedurefor use in the probate and insolvency courts of Maine, a commission authorized by act of Legislature for this important purpose. The rules and blanks now in use are those prepared by that commission. Judge Peabody has been called upon to fill many offices of honor and trust.
He is a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias. In that fraternal organization he is a past grand chancellor and has twice been the supreme representative of the state to the supreme lodge. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum.
He is one of the trustees of Fryeburg Academy and a trustee of the Portland Public Library .and of the Greenleaf Law Library, and is a director of the Portland Loan and Building Association. For a number of years he was president of the Maine State Relief Association. He is a fellow of the Maine Academy of Medicine, a member of the Fraternity Club, a prominent literary association, and of the Portland and Lincoln Clubs, the two principal Republican organizations of this city.
He married in 1867 Miss Ellen Adams, daughter of Dea. Augustus Adams, of Portland. They have had three children, Clarence Webster Peabody, a graduate of Bowdoin College and Law SchooI, now practicing law in the same office with his father in the Union Mutual insurance building, and who is at present a member of the Portland school board; Arthur Glendower Peabody, born in 1872 and died in 1880; and Henry Adams Peabody, born in 1881, who intends to enter Bowdoin College as a member of the class of 1903.
He was born in Gilead, Oxford County, Me., April 14, 1838, a son of John Tarbell and Mercy Ingalls (Burbank) Peabody. In 1839, he removed to Gorham, N. H. , where he resided until after his graduation from college. He attended schools and GouId's Academy, Bethel, Me., and fitted for college at Fryeburg Academy.
He afterwards entered and graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of '59. Choosing the legal profession, he read law in Portland in the office of General Samuel Fessenden.
In 1862, he was admitted to the bar in this county and began the successful practice of his profession in Portland. From the time of his admission to the bar until 1867, he was a partner of the late Judge Aaron B. Holden.
For several years he was a member of the school board. At the State election in the fall of 1879, he was elected judge of probate, taking his seat the following January.
His sound judgment in probate-and insolvency matters demonstrated his fitness for the important office and he has been regularly re-elected at the expiration of each term.
He has much ability as a public speaker, but he has not thought it proper while holding a judicial office to engage actively in political campaigns. He has been heard, however, at Memorial Day exercises and on other occasions of a public nature.
He served as chairman of the commission appointed Cleaves in 1895 to prepare uniform blanks and rules of practice and procedurefor use in the probate and insolvency courts of Maine, a commission authorized by act of Legislature for this important purpose. The rules and blanks now in use are those prepared by that commission. Judge Peabody has been called upon to fill many offices of honor and trust.
He is a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias. In that fraternal organization he is a past grand chancellor and has twice been the supreme representative of the state to the supreme lodge. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum.
He is one of the trustees of Fryeburg Academy and a trustee of the Portland Public Library .and of the Greenleaf Law Library, and is a director of the Portland Loan and Building Association. For a number of years he was president of the Maine State Relief Association. He is a fellow of the Maine Academy of Medicine, a member of the Fraternity Club, a prominent literary association, and of the Portland and Lincoln Clubs, the two principal Republican organizations of this city.
He married in 1867 Miss Ellen Adams, daughter of Dea. Augustus Adams, of Portland. They have had three children, Clarence Webster Peabody, a graduate of Bowdoin College and Law SchooI, now practicing law in the same office with his father in the Union Mutual insurance building, and who is at present a member of the Portland school board; Arthur Glendower Peabody, born in 1872 and died in 1880; and Henry Adams Peabody, born in 1881, who intends to enter Bowdoin College as a member of the class of 1903.
Portland Past and Present, 1899. Hon. Henry C Peabody. The probate court of this county is presided over by Judge Henry Clay Peabody, who has held the office continuously since January, 1880.
He was born in Gilead, Oxford County, Me., April 14, 1838, a son of John Tarbell and Mercy Ingalls (Burbank) Peabody. In 1839, he removed to Gorham, N. H. , where he resided until after his graduation from college. He attended schools and GouId's Academy, Bethel, Me., and fitted for college at Fryeburg Academy.
He afterwards entered and graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of '59. Choosing the legal profession, he read law in Portland in the office of General Samuel Fessenden.
In 1862, he was admitted to the bar in this county and began the successful practice of his profession in Portland. From the time of his admission to the bar until 1867, he was a partner of the late Judge Aaron B. Holden.
For several years he was a member of the school board. At the State election in the fall of 1879, he was elected judge of probate, taking his seat the following January.
His sound judgment in probate-and insolvency matters demonstrated his fitness for the important office and he has been regularly re-elected at the expiration of each term.
He has much ability as a public speaker, but he has not thought it proper while holding a judicial office to engage actively in political campaigns. He has been heard, however, at Memorial Day exercises and on other occasions of a public nature.
He served as chairman of the commission appointed Cleaves in 1895 to prepare uniform blanks and rules of practice and procedurefor use in the probate and insolvency courts of Maine, a commission authorized by act of Legislature for this important purpose. The rules and blanks now in use are those prepared by that commission. Judge Peabody has been called upon to fill many offices of honor and trust.
He is a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias. In that fraternal organization he is a past grand chancellor and has twice been the supreme representative of the state to the supreme lodge. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum.
He is one of the trustees of Fryeburg Academy and a trustee of the Portland Public Library .and of the Greenleaf Law Library, and is a director of the Portland Loan and Building Association. For a number of years he was president of the Maine State Relief Association. He is a fellow of the Maine Academy of Medicine, a member of the Fraternity Club, a prominent literary association, and of the Portland and Lincoln Clubs, the two principal Republican organizations of this city.
He married in 1867 Miss Ellen Adams, daughter of Dea. Augustus Adams, of Portland. They have had three children, Clarence Webster Peabody, a graduate of Bowdoin College and Law SchooI, now practicing law in the same office with his father in the Union Mutual insurance building, and who is at present a member of the Portland school board; Arthur Glendower Peabody, born in 1872 and died in 1880; and Henry Adams Peabody, born in 1881, who intends to enter Bowdoin College as a member of the class of 1903.
He was born in Gilead, Oxford County, Me., April 14, 1838, a son of John Tarbell and Mercy Ingalls (Burbank) Peabody. In 1839, he removed to Gorham, N. H. , where he resided until after his graduation from college. He attended schools and GouId's Academy, Bethel, Me., and fitted for college at Fryeburg Academy.
He afterwards entered and graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of '59. Choosing the legal profession, he read law in Portland in the office of General Samuel Fessenden.
In 1862, he was admitted to the bar in this county and began the successful practice of his profession in Portland. From the time of his admission to the bar until 1867, he was a partner of the late Judge Aaron B. Holden.
For several years he was a member of the school board. At the State election in the fall of 1879, he was elected judge of probate, taking his seat the following January.
His sound judgment in probate-and insolvency matters demonstrated his fitness for the important office and he has been regularly re-elected at the expiration of each term.
He has much ability as a public speaker, but he has not thought it proper while holding a judicial office to engage actively in political campaigns. He has been heard, however, at Memorial Day exercises and on other occasions of a public nature.
He served as chairman of the commission appointed Cleaves in 1895 to prepare uniform blanks and rules of practice and procedurefor use in the probate and insolvency courts of Maine, a commission authorized by act of Legislature for this important purpose. The rules and blanks now in use are those prepared by that commission. Judge Peabody has been called upon to fill many offices of honor and trust.
He is a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias. In that fraternal organization he is a past grand chancellor and has twice been the supreme representative of the state to the supreme lodge. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum.
He is one of the trustees of Fryeburg Academy and a trustee of the Portland Public Library .and of the Greenleaf Law Library, and is a director of the Portland Loan and Building Association. For a number of years he was president of the Maine State Relief Association. He is a fellow of the Maine Academy of Medicine, a member of the Fraternity Club, a prominent literary association, and of the Portland and Lincoln Clubs, the two principal Republican organizations of this city.
He married in 1867 Miss Ellen Adams, daughter of Dea. Augustus Adams, of Portland. They have had three children, Clarence Webster Peabody, a graduate of Bowdoin College and Law SchooI, now practicing law in the same office with his father in the Union Mutual insurance building, and who is at present a member of the Portland school board; Arthur Glendower Peabody, born in 1872 and died in 1880; and Henry Adams Peabody, born in 1881, who intends to enter Bowdoin College as a member of the class of 1903.
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