George Peabody Gardner, 83, widely known financier, philanthropist and member of one of the country's oldest families, died yesterday at his summer home, Monument Beach, Bourne.
Although he had gained prominence for his active life in financial and corporation circles, including an intimate connection with the development of some of the nations largest industrial concerns, his varied interests had also stamped him as a leading churchman, humanitarian and patron of the arts.
A direct descendant of Thomas Gardner, a planter who settled on Cape Ann in 1624, he devoted his life to furthering the many philanthropies for which his family had been long famous.
One of his principal interests for many years was the Children's Hospital of which he was president emeritus.
He was born in Boston, Nov. 19, 1855, son of George Augustus and Eliza Endicott Peabody Gardner.
From the Boston Globe Obituary, June 7, 1939
George Peabody Gardner, 83, widely known financier, philanthropist and member of one of the country's oldest families, died yesterday at his summer home, Monument Beach, Bourne.
Although he had gained prominence for his active life in financial and corporation circles, including an intimate connection with the development of some of the nations largest industrial concerns, his varied interests had also stamped him as a leading churchman, humanitarian and patron of the arts.
A direct descendant of Thomas Gardner, a planter who settled on Cape Ann in 1624, he devoted his life to furthering the many philanthropies for which his family had been long famous.
One of his principal interests for many years was the Children's Hospital of which he was president emeritus.
He was born in Boston, Nov. 19, 1855, son of George Augustus and Eliza Endicott Peabody Gardner.
From the Boston Globe Obituary, June 7, 1939
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