September 28, 2007
A Name Spread Far and Wide Posted by Frederick E. Allen at 12:55 PM EST John Steele Gordon’s mention of Endicott Peabody reminds me of his grandson Endicott “Chub” Peabody, who was governor of Massachusetts for a couple of years in the 1960s and ran one of the few campaigns by anyone ever to get nominated for Vice President in 1972. He has stayed in my mind ever since only because of what a fellow Bay Stater once said of him: that he was the only man to have four towns in the state named after him—Endicott, Peabody, Marblehead, and Athol.
| 
