William Greenleaf ELIOT

• Birth: 5 AUG 1811, New Bedford,,MA,USA
• Death: 23 JAN 1887, Pass Christian,,MO,USA

1. Mary Rhodes ELIOT
2. William Cranch ELIOT
3. Thomas Lamb ELIOT
4. Henry Ware ELIOT
5. Elizabeth Cranch ELIOT
6. Abby Adams ELIOT
7. Margaret Dawes ELIOT
8. Frank Andrew ELIOT
9. Sarah Glasgow ELIOT
10. Christopher Rhodes ELIOT
11. William Smith ELIOT
12. Edward Cranch ELIOT
13. John ELIOT
14. Rose Greenleaf ELIOT

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                             _Samuel ELIOT ________|
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 _William Greenleaf ELIOT __|
|                           |                       _William GREENLEAF _
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|--William Greenleaf ELIOT 
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|_Margaret Greenleaf DAWES _|
                            |                       _William GREENLEAF _
                            |_Margaret GREENLEAF __|
                                                   |_Mary BROWN ________

Notes

Educated at the Friends Academy, New Bedford; at Columbian College of Washington, D.C., 1826-1830; and Harvard Divinity School, 1831-1834, (D.D. 1854); LL.D., Harvard. In 1830-31, he was employed in the Postal Department at Washington. Ordained Minister of the Unitarian Church, August 17, 1834.

Minister of the First Congregational Church (Church of the Messiah, Unitarian, now designated First Unitarian Church of St. Louis) from 1834 to 1870; and thereafter pastor emeritus. President of Board of Directors of Washington University, 1853-1887; Chancellor of Washington University, 1870-1887. From his private means he gave liberally to the building and endowment funds of Washington University.

During the Civil War, founder and member of Western Sanitary Commission, giving aid to sick and wounded of the armies. Organized the Mission Free School of the Church of the Messiah, 1856. Aided the foundation of Academy of Science of St. Louis, 1843. Member of Public School Board, 1848 (President, 1848-1849). Was largely instrumental in obtaining the first public school taxes, 1850. Aided in organization of Colored Orphans' Home, Soldiers' Orphans' Home, Memorial Home, Blind Girls' Home, Women's Christian Home, and other charities. Between 1870 and 1876 he fought effectively against commercialized vice in Missouri. An early advocate of Prohibition and Woman Suffrage.

Author of Doctrines of Christianity, Lectures to Young Men, Lectures to Young Women, (re-edited as Home and Influence), Discipline of Sorrow, and The Story of Archer Alexander.

NOTE: I have reprints of the Archer Alexander book. If interested, contact me at feliot@@his.com.

He resided in St. Louis, Missouri from 1834 to 1887.

See William Greenleaf Eliot, by Charlotte C. Eliot (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1904):

"His best monument is to be found in the many educational and philanthropic institutions of St. Louis, to which he gave the disinterested labor of his life."

Also, see William Greenleaf Eliot - Conservative Radical by Earl K. Holt, III, Minister of the First Unitarian Church of St. Louis (published by this church, 1985, St. Louis, MO) (1988)

From The Family of William Greenleaf Eliot and Abby Adams Eliot, as Chronicled by their Descendants, to 1988 by Henry Eliot Scott (1988)