Doctor Peabody
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Doctor Peabody
Sort Name:
Peabody, Doctor
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Professional
Specific Job:
Physician
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Biography:
"Doctor Peabody" is one of the "new faces" that arrive in Yoknapatawpha after the first group of pioneers and becomes "old Doctor Habersham's successor" as the community's physician (206). He is presumably an ancestor of the Doctor Peabody who in other fictions takes care of Yoknapatawpha's sick and wounded until well into the twentieth century, but the text never specifies the relationship between the two men. This earlier Peabody provides laudanum to add to the whiskey given to the militia for their celebration. He also figures out the way to resolve the crisis of the missing padlock, and in the process finds a name for the city-in-progress.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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