Oliver at­tend­ed Har­vard Un­i­ver­si­ty, and taught at an acad­e­my in Ex­e­ter, 1817-1818. He then stu­died the­ol­o­gy at the Cam­bridge Di­vin­i­ty School. He be­gan preaching in 1819, and be­came pas­tor of the Un­i­tar­i­an church in Spring­field, Mass­a­chu­setts, where he served the rest of his life. He had a twin brother, Oliver William Peabody, who was al­so a Un­i­tar­i­an min­is­ter (at Bur­ling­ton, Ver­mont), and al­so died in 1847.

Peabody’s works in­clude:

• Po­et­ic­al Ca­te­chism for the Young, 1823
• The Spring­field Col­lect­ion of Hymns for Sac­red Wor­ship (Spring­field, Mass­a­chu­setts: 1835) (ed­it­or)

Sources

Lyrics

1. Behold the Western Evening Light
2. God of the Earth’s Extended Plains
3. Moon Is Up: How Calm and Slow, The
4. O When the Hours of Life Are Past
5. When Brighter Suns and Milder Skies
6. Who Is Thy Neigh­bor