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July 11-1934
Queen Victoria, the largest miniature, and said
it has cost $45,000 to paint. It is a double
frame in solid gold. This Peabody Institute
is in what was formerly called South Orono
and Peabody, Mass.
Then we returned to the post cemetery where
the Peabody family is buried, including C.C.
Mark's mother.
Close by on the church were the Salem
critics, one burned. The place was settled by
a family buying many slaves from the West In-
dians, and from them came the belief in witches.
The Mark farm is on a hill side sur-
rrounded a small marsh and flat land leading to
the home of George Peabody. The two homes are less
than 1/2 mile apart, and it is thus that Caleb
Marks met Oraby Peabody.
Read the book "John Mark, Pioneer"
by George H. Lyman, 1930. This Mark is
referred to by Caleb and who induced him to
sell into land in Michigan. He went on to