Henry Ware ELIOT

• Birth: 25 NOV 1843, St. Louis,,MO,USA
• Death: 7 JAN 1919, St. Louis,,MO,USA

• Marriage: 27 OCT 1868, Lexington,,MA,USA

1. Ada ELIOT
2. Margaret Dawes ELIOT
3. Charlotte ELIOT
4. Marian Cushing ELIOT
5. Henry Ware Jr. ELIOT
6. Theodora Sterling ELIOT
7. Thomas Stearns ELIOT

                                                        _Samuel ELIOT ________
                            _William Greenleaf ELIOT __|
                           |                           |_Elizabeth GREENLEAF _
 _William Greenleaf ELIOT _|
|                          |                            _Thomas DAWES ________
|                          |_Margaret Greenleaf DAWES _|
|                                                      |_Margaret GREENLEAF __
|
|--Henry Ware ELIOT 
|
|                                                       _Richard CRANCH ______
|                           _William CRANCH ___________|
|                          |                           |_Mary SMITH __________
|_Abigail Adams CRANCH ____|
                           |                            _William GREENLEAF ___
                           |_Nancy GREENLEAF __________|
                                                       |_Mary BROWN __________

Notes

Educated at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (A.B. 1863). He had talent in art and in music, and was a member of the volunteer choir of the Church of the Messiah. During the Civil War, he served in the Home Guard.

Employed with Reed and Green, in the wholesale grocery business, 1864-1869; then entered into business as a manufacturing chemist, under the firm name of Eliot and Larkin. In 1874 he bacame Secretary of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, St. Louis; later was both Secretary and Treasurer, and then President and Treasurer. On his resignation at the age of 70, he was made Chairman, a position created by the Board of Directors, to retain the benefit of his judgement and experience. In this capacity he attended his office regularly till the day of his death.

Member of the Board of Directors of Washington University, 1877-1919; President of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 1902; Trustee of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1902-1903.

For over thirty years he gave efficient attention to the combined property interests of the family, declining remuneration. In hs leisure hours he compiled a record of the descendants of William Greenleaf (1724-1803) which is a source of family information.

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