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and Catherine (Atkins) Eliot and of AUlen and
Marjjaret (Stevenson) Bradford, and a direct de-
scendant from Andrew Eliot, born at East Coker,
England, 1627, who joined the First church of
Beverly. Mass.. in 1070; and of Gov. William
Bradford of Maissachusetts Bay colony. His
grandfather Samuel
Eliot was founder of
the Eliot professor-
ship of Greek lit-
erature in Harvard
university. He was
graduated at Harvard
in 1839 ; was in a Bos-
ton counting-room,
1839-40, and in Eu-
rope for travel and
study, 1841-44. He
then engaged in mis-
sionary' work as an
educator of vagrant
children and yoimg
working men in Boston, where he organ-
ized a charity school. He went to Trinity
college, Hartford, Conn., in 1856, as Brownell
professor of history and political science,
and was elected president of the institution,
serving from Dec. 18, 1860, to Jan. 29, 1864.
He was afterward lecturer on constitutional law
and ix)litical science, 1864-74; was university
lecturer at Harvard, 1870-73; head master of
the girls' high-school, Boston, 1872-76; superin-
tendent of Boston public schools, 1878-80, presi-
dent of the American social science associa-
tion. 1868-72; an overseer of Harvard, 1866-72; a
meml>er of the Boston school committee, 1885-
88 ; a fellow of the American academy of sciences ;
member of the Massachusetts historical society ;
president of the Boston Athenaeum, of the Perkins
institute for the blind, and a trustee of various
charitable institutions. In 1853 he married Emily
Marshall, a daughter of William Foster Otis of
Boston, and granddaughter of Harrison Gray
Otis. He received the degree of A.M. from Har-
vard in 1842 and from Trinity in 1857, and that
of LL.D. from Columbia in 1803 and from Har-
vard in 1880. His published works include: Fas-
sages from the History of Liberty : Part I., The
Ancient liomans (1853); and Part II., TJie Early
(Jhristinns (1853). Part HI., The Papal Afjes, Part
rV., The Monarchical Ages, and Part V., The
Avurican lif^mhlic, though carefully planned,
were never executed. He also published : Manual
of United States History, 1492-1872 (1856, rev.,
1873): Poetry for Children (1879); Stories from the
Arahian Nights (1879); Selections from American
Authors (1879); Life and Times of Savonarola; and
Trn7\x\ations from thj' Spanish of Zorilla. He died
at Beverly Farms, IMass., Sept. 14, 1898.
ELIOT, Samuel Atkins, representative, was
born in Boston. Mass., March 5, 1798; the third
son of Samuel and Catharine (Atkins) Eliot. His
first American ancestor, Andrew Eliot, immi-
grated from England to America in 1668. He
was graduated at Harvard college in 1817 and
from the divinity school in 1820. He did not
enter the ministry, but gave his time chiefly to
various forms of gratuitous public service. He
gave to Harvard college in 1823 "Warden's exten-
sive collection of books on American history,
consisting of nearly twelve hundred volumes,
besides maps, charts and prints at a cost of
upwards of five thousand dollars." He was man-
ager, treasurer, vice-president and president of the
Prison discipline society, first president of the Bos-
ton provident association, and first pi'esident of
the Boston academy of music, under whose aus-
pices Beethoven symphonies were performed for
the first time in the United States. He was elected
a representative in the state legislature in 1834
and a state senator in 1843. He was mayor of
Boston, 1837-39; a representative in the 31st con-
gress, having been elected to fill the unexpired
term of Robert C. Winthrop appointed U.S. sena-
tor, serving from Aug. 22, 1850, to March 4, 1851,
and declining to be a candidate for re-election.
He organized the first paid fire department for
the citj^ of Boston and the first day police. He
was treasurer of Harvard college, 1842-53, and a
fellow of the American academy of arts and
sciences. He was married, Jime 13, 1826, to
Mary, daughter of Theodore Lyman of Boston.
He published: Sketches of the Histoid of Harvard
College and Its Present Condition (1848) and Ser-
mons of Dr. Francis W. P. dreeniriood loith a
Memoir (1844). He also wrote a memoir of the
Rev. Ephraim Peabod3^ which was published in a
volume of Dr. Peabody's sermons, and jjrinted
for his own children and the Sunday school a
limited edition of Observations on the Bible for the
Use of Young Persons (1842). He was a contrib-
utor to the North American Review and to the
Christian Examiner. He died in Cambridge,
Mass., Jan. 29, 1862.
ELIOT, Thomas Dawes, representative, was born in Boston, Mass., March 20, 1808; son of
William Greenleaf and (Dawes) Eliot;
grandson of Judge Thomas Dawes (1 757-1825), and brother of the Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot. He was graduated from the Columbian college, D.C., in 1825, and studied law under his uncle. Judge William Cranch (1769-1855). He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1831 and practised in New Bedford, Mass. He served in the state legislature, and in 1854 was elected as a Whig a representative in the 33d congress to fill tlie imexpired term of Zeno Scudder, serving 1854-55. He was also a representative in the 36th, 37th,.38th, 39th and 40th
