High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The George Peabody is the historical library of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. Along with the Arthur Friedheim music Library, is located on the Peabody campus at Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, Maryland. It serves the faculty and students of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, the Peabody Preparatory Division and other divisions of the University. The Peabody Institute Library was begun with the June 16, 1852 donation from George Peabody. George Peabody was born in South Danvers (now Peabody) in 1795 and by the year of 1851 had risen in the business world to become an investment banker in London.