 The Peabodys moved to the Francis Stuyvesant Peabody House in Hinsdale, Illinois in 1911.An important political ally of Adlai E. Stevenson I, Peabody was considered as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in 1912.During World War I, Peabody was the chairman of the Coal Production Committee of the Council of National Defense and was assistant to the director of the Bureau of Mines.