_William Greenleaf ELIOT __
_William Greenleaf ELIOT _|
| |_Margaret Greenleaf DAWES _
_Thomas Lamb ELIOT _____|
| | _William CRANCH ___________
| |_Abigail Adams CRANCH ____|
| |_Nancy GREENLEAF __________
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|--Thomas Dawes ELIOT
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| _Samuel Ely MACK _________|
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|_Henrietta Robins MACK _|
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|_Rebecca Amelia ROBINS ___|
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Educated at Portland Academy, and at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (A.B. 1910); New York School of Philanthropy, Bureau of Social Research; University of Pennsylvania (M.A. 1912); Columbia University (Ph.D. 1914); Phi Delta Theta, Alpha Kappa Delta, Alpha Pi Zeta.
Field Secretary Oregon Social Hygiene Society, 1913-1914; Pacific States Secretary, American Social Hygience Association, 1914-1916; Assistant Professor of Politics and Social Science, State College of Washington, 1916-1917; organizer in War Camp Community Service, 1919; Captain in U.S. Sanitary Corps, 1917-1919; Associate Professor of Socioligy, Northwestern University, 1919-1924; Professor of Sociology there, 1924-1954; Research Professor (Northwestern) on leave, 1952-1954; Fullbright Research Professor to Norway, 1950-1951 to study problems and programs affecting family life since World War II; Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 1954-1955; Visiting Professor, Grinnell College, 1956; State University of Iowa, 1956-1957; Louisiana State University, 1958-1959.
President of Social Service Club of Chicage, 1924; member of Executive Committee, American Sociological Society, 1926-1928 and 1952-1953; Chairman, Section on Sociology and Psychiatry, of same, 1931-1932; Acting Professor of Sociology, Pomona College, California, 1928-1929; Acting Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, 1919-1930; President, Illinois Society for Personality Study, 1948-1949; Vice-President, Midwest Sociological Society, 1949-1950, President, 1951-1952; Executive Committee, American Civil Liberties Union (Chicago Branch) 1942-1952; Delegate to International Society of Criminology (Paris, 1950); sometime lecturer at University of Oregon, University of California, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, University of North Dakota, College of North Dakota, University of Oslo, University of Stockholm, and elsewhere in Norway, Sweden and in Finland, National College of Education, Presbyterian Hospital, Illinois Masonic Hospital, New York School of Social Work; speaker before International Sociological Association, Zurich, 1950 (Program Committee).
Member (in addition to those listed above, of which he has been an executive): American Sociological Society (Life); American Association of University Professors (Life); American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Association of Social Workers; National Conference of Social Work; Chicago Academy of Criminology; National Committee for Mental Hygiene, International Sociological Association; International Society for Criminology; Midwest Sociological Society (Hon.); Fellow of the American Sociological Association; Executive Committee, Citizens; Committee on the Juvenile Court, 1938-1942; member-at-large of the Winnetka (Illinois) Community House Council (1935-1939); member-at-large of the Winnetka Congregational Church, 1938-1940; member of 57th Street Meeting, Society of Friends (where?), and of the American Friends Service Committee. Was member of the National Advisory Couoncil of the Unitarian Layman's League, and of the Unitarian Fellowship of Beloit, Wisconsin.
Author of The Juvenile Court and the Community (Macmillan, 1913); Outlines of Social Economy (Edwards, 1929); American Standards and Planes of Living (Ginn & Co., 1931); Social Controls, to have been published after 1952; Norway's Families (with Arthur Hilman) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1960).
From The Family of William Greenleaf Eliot and Abby Adams Eliot, as Chronicled by their Descendants, to 1988 by Henry Eliot Scott (1988)