MEMORIAL 



George Frederick Peabody. 



It is with profound sorrow that a record is made of the 

 death of George Frederick Pealjody, Secretary of this So- 

 ciet}-. Prepared though the members were by the announce- 

 ment at the Toledo meeting of his serious ihness and the 

 operation which was rendered necessary thereby, the weight 

 of the calamity caused by the announcement of his passing 

 away on Sunday, September 12, 1909, was in nowise 

 lessened. 



To the members of the American Fisheries Society he was 

 more than a faithful, conscientious officer; more than a 

 prominent citizen of Wisconsin; more than a state fish com- 

 missioner ; he was a personal friend to every member ; he had 

 endeared himself to all by his uniform courtesy, sympathy 

 and kindly disposition. When he attended the meeting of 

 the Society in Washington in 190(S, and when most of the 

 meml)ers saw him for the last time, there was no outward 

 indication that he was suffering from a fatal malady, and, 

 indeed, he himself was seemingly unaware of anything of the 

 kind until within a few weeks of his death. 



11ie American Fisheries Society has lost one of its most 

 faithful officers, one of its most active and enthusiastic mem- 

 bers ; the State of Wisconsin and the City of Appleton have 

 lost one of their most prominent citizens. 



Air. Peabody's life is a shining example of American citi- 

 zenship, of sterling American worth, and of American ideals 

 of duty to mankind. He was a native of Connecticut, born 

 in IMilford, September 12, 1845. His death, therefore, oc- 

 curred on the anni\'ersary of his sixty-fourth birthday. He 

 remo\e<l when a 1)ov with his parents to Portage, Wisconsin, 

 where he received his early education, and before attaining 

 his majority, entered the employment of C. J. Pettibone, who 

 conducted a dry goods, boot and shoe store at Fond du Lac. 



