Lucy Evelyn Peabody

She was educated in convents in Ohio[2] and attended school in Washington, D.C.[1] She worked as a secretary assistant in the Bureau of Ethnology in D.C. for 9 years[3] where she met Major William Sloane Peabody, an executive officer of the US Geological Survey, whom she married on March 4, 1895.

The motto of the group was Dux Femina Facti or "feminine leadership has accomplished it," and was headed by Virginia McClurg as regent and Lucy Peabody as vice-regent.

[1] The movement was gaining momentum, but McClurg changed her stance in 1904 and wanted Mesa Verde to instead be a State Park administered by the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association.

Peabody maintained her initial stance and split off from McClurg, leaving the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association along with a number of the other members.

Edgar Hewett of the Archaeological Institute of America, helped her to push the Herschel M. Hogg Bill regarding the park to be approved.

This error was quickly improved with the Brooks-Leupp Amendment on June 29, 1906, which determined that all ruins within 5 miles of the original boundary are to be treated as part of the National Park.