Charlotte Champe STEARNS

• Birth: 22 OCT 1843, Baltimore,,MD,USA
• Death: 10 SEP 1929, Cambridge,,MA,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

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Educated at Miss Prescott's school, Boston, and at a private school in Sandwich, Massachusetts; graduated from the regular and advanced courses of the State Normal School of Framingham, Massachusetts.

Taught in a private school at West Chester, Pennsylvania; in one at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and for two years in a Quaker family. Then taught at Antioch College, Ohio; Framingham Normal School, and St. Louis Normal School.

Secretary, Mission Free School of the Church of the Messiah for many years. As chairman of the legislative committee of the Humanity Club of St. Louis, she took a leading part in obtaining the passage in 1901 of the Probation Law, and in 1903 of the Juvenile Court Law. She also worked for a special house of detention for juveniles, finally established in 1906.

Charter member of Wednesday Club of St. Louis. Also charter member of Missouri Society of the Colonial Dames of America, serving successively as Secretary, Vice-President, and President. Was chairman of a committee for a Washington University scholarship which obligated the beneficiary to do certain patriotic work. Her lecture, "The Romantic History of the Pilgrim Fathers" was given at ten public schools. In 1917-1918 she was chairman of the War Work committee of the Colonial Dames which contributed knotted garments and sold Liberty Bonds.

Author of William Greenleaf Eliot (1904), and Savonarola; a Dramatic Poem (with introduction by T.S. Eliot). In the "Christian Register" were published her Easter Songs, her Poems on the Apostles, and other poems. For the fiftieth anniversary of the Church of the Messiah in 1884, she wrote a hymn.

After the death of her husband, she resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she died in 1929.

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