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TIL of Endicott Peabody, the Episcopalian minister who served Tombstone, Arizona and was a spiritual advisor to Wyatt Earp, also taught all four of Theodore Roosevelt’s children, and presided over the wedding of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

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