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Show FRANCIS H. PEABODY OF BOSTON IS DEAD BEVERLY, Mass.. Sept. 2. Francis H. Peabody, member of the Boston banking firm of Kidder. Peabody & Co.,' died suddenly of - heart disease at his home at Beverly Cove today, aged 74 years. Mr. Peabody was stricken during the night. The family physician was hurriedly hur-riedly summoned but could do nothing to relieve the dying banker. For nearly half a century Mr. Peabody Pea-body had been prominent in the financial finan-cial circles of the country. In 1865 he organized the firm of Kidder, Peabody tt Co., one of the prominent financial institutions of the world. Mr. Peabody Is survived .by a widow, one son and one daughter. |