Lucy Evelyn Peabody

Lucy Evelyn Peabody (1864 and attended school in Washington, D.C. She worked as a secretary assistant in the Bureau of Ethnology in D.C. for 9 years where she met Major William Sloane Peabody, an executive officer of the US Geological Survey, whom she married on March 4, 1895. In 1901, they secured an agreement with the Weeminuche Utes for exclusive water rights and permission to build and maintain roads. Her friend, Dr. Edgar Hewett named the Peabody House (or the Spruce Tree House ) in her honor. She worked for the passage of child labor laws, traveling libraries, and the recognition of Lincoln's birthday as a state holiday. She was known to be a Democrat and to favor women's suffrage.

She died on September 19, 1934, in Denver, Colorado.