Gertrude's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Peabody family tree.

Gertrude's Family

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Catherine Marie Rawlinson Lawrence

Cordelia A (Lawrence) Lorenz

Robert Gerard Goulet

Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence

Chita Rivera, Jerome Robbins, Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence

Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence

Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence

Bill Mashall Lawrence

Stephanna Patterson Lawrence

Dorlis Lawrence

Dorlis Lawrence

Thelma Inez Lawrence

Charles Lawrence

Robert Roy Naquin

The Lawrence family

Louis Couty

Linda & Joyce (Lawrence) Couget

Linda Couget Naquin

Paul Dunn Sr.

Frederick Dunn Sr.

Charles Pohlman

Paul Lawrence, Sr.

Catherine & Frank Lawrence, Virginia Dunn

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In 1855, in the year that Gertrude Lawrence Peabody was born, on November 17th, David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary and explorer, became the first known European to see Victoria Falls. He named the falls in honor of Queen Victoria but locally it was - and is - Mosi-oa-Tunya, which means "The Smoke That Thunders".

In 1863, when she was just 8 years old, on June 20th, West Virginia was admitted as the 35th state of the United States. West Virginia was formed when the pro-Union citizens in northwest Virginia wanted to separate from Virginia - which had joined the Confederacy.

In 1868, when she was only 13 years old, on October 28th, Thomas Edison - age 21 - applied for his first patent. It was for the electric vote recorder and was designed to make voting quicker and the counting of votes more accurate. Congress didn't like the idea so Edison's voting machine was never used.

In 1878, Gertrude was 23 years old when on June 15th, photographer Eadweard Muybridge - at the request of Leland Stanford - produced the first sequence of stop-motion still photographs. Stanford contended that a galloping horse had all four feet off the ground. Only photos of a horse at a gallop would settle the question and, using 12 cameras and a series of photos, Muybridge settled the question: Stanford was right. Muybridge's use of several cameras and stills led to motion pictures.

In 1883, in the year of Gertrude Lawrence Peabody's passing, on February 28th, in Boston MA, the first vaudeville theater was opened by Benjamin Franklin Keith.