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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