It was commonly said around Salem, Massachusetts, that “you were either a Peabody or a nobody,” but young George was both. Born into a poor branch of the family in South Danvers (now Peabody), Massachusetts, i
In 1987 he was chosen to be the principal cantor for papal masses at the Los Angeles Coliseum and Dodger Stadium during the visit of Pope John Paul II. In California he was director of music for eight years at St. Clare’s Catholic Church in Santa Clarita and for five years at Petaluma...
Born into a poor branch of the family in South Danvers (now Peabody), Massachusetts, in 1795, he left school at eleven to work in a general store, fought in the War of 1812, then went into the wholesale dry goods business in Washington, D.C. By 1827 he was no longer a nobody: ...