Legacy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt said of Peabody, "As long as I live his influence will mean more to me than that of any other people next to my father and mother." His family has been called Boston Brahmins. Governor Endicott Peabody was a grandchild, and his great-grandchildren include author Frances FitzGerald, model Penelope Tree, actress Kyra Sedgwick (wife of Kevin Bacon), and 1960's cultural icon Edie Sedgwick.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)