Charles A. Peabody Jr.

Charles Augustus Peabody Jr. (April 11, 1849 – April 26, 1931) and, his first wife, Julia Caroline (née Livingston) Peabody (1816–1878) who married at Trinity Church in 1846. Philip Glendower Peabody and Julia Livingston Peabody (the wife of Charles J. Nourse). After his mother's death in 1878, his father remarried to Mary Eliza Hamilton. Mary was a cousin of Mrs. Astor, a daughter of John Church Hamilton and granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His father served one term on the Supreme Court of New York and was appointed a Provisional Judge in the District of New Orleans by President Abraham Lincoln. and daughter of Anthony Rutgers Livingston (brother to U.S. Representative Robert Le Roy Livingston).

A Boston Brahmin, his paternal grandparents were Samuel Peabody (son of Capt. Richard Peabody of the Revolutionary War who commanded a Company at Fort Ticonderoga and Lake George) and Abigail (née Wood) Peabody. His maternal grandparents were James Duane Livingston and Sarah (née Swift) Livingston. Among his maternal family, all descendants of Robert Livingston, the 3rd Lord of Livingston Manor,

Peabody attended Columbia University, where he played on the college's football team and was a member of the Fraternity of Delta Psi (St. Anthony Hall), graduating with the class of 1869, before attending Columbia Law School,

Career After his admission to the bar in the 1870s, Peabody became a member of his father's firm, Peabody, Baker & Peabody, a law office at 2 Wall Street in downtown Manhattan. In 1875, Peabody was elected to represent New York County's 11th district in the 99th New York State Legislature, serving from January 1 until December 31, 1876, when he was succeeded by Elliot C. Cowdin. His father ran for Surrogate in 1876.

After his father's death in 1901, the firm continued under the name Baker & Peabody with Fisher Ames Baker as senior partner. Baker was the uncle of George Fisher Baker, former president of Astor National Bank,

From 1893, until shortly before his death, Peabody was a trustee of the estate of the first John Jacob Astor, and was associated with William Waldorf Astor for many years as his representative in the United States after Astor moved to England. and Governor Charles Evans Hughes.

After the "sensational insurance investigations by the Armstrong committee," Peabody was appointed president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company on January 1, 1906, and worked from 32 Nassau Street. he was "recognized as a leader in the advance of life insurance in America," and "in increasing the soundness of its foundations and in raising the esteem in which the business is held by the public." Peabody was succeeded as president by David F. Houston, the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Agriculture (under President Woodrow Wilson).

Personal life On January 27, 1880, Together, they lived at 224 Madison Avenue in New York and had a country place at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. Charlotte and Charles were the parents of two boys and one girl, including:

Julian Livingston Peabody (1881–1935), an architect who married Celestine Eustis Hitchcock, daughter of Thomas Hitchcock Sr. and niece of William Corcoran Eustis. Both Julian and his wife died in the marine disaster, the sinking of the SS Mohawk off the coast of New Jersey in January 1935. John Damon Peabody (1883–1944), a 1906 Harvard graduate who married Mary Cunningham Bishop, daughter of James Cunningham Bishop. Anita Livingston Peabody (1884–1960), who married polo player Hamilton Haddon (1885–1963), the son of J. E. Smith Hadden, in 1913.

Peabody was a member of the University Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Piping Rock Club, the Tuxedo Club, and was a member of the Sons of the Revolution. After his wife's death, Peabody moved to 635 Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where he died on April 26, 1931. After a funeral at the Church of the Resurrection at 119 East 74th Street, he was buried alongside his wife at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Descendants Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of Julian Livingston Peabody Jr. (1914–2014), a lawyer with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby, and Daphne Peabody, who married Edward Eugene Murray, a Dartmouth College graduate who was the son of the Democratic Senator from Montana, James E. Murray, in 1944.