_William Greenleaf ELIOT _
_Thomas Lamb ELIOT _______|
| |_Abigail Adams CRANCH ____
_William Greenleaf ELIOT _____|
| | _Samuel Ely MACK _________
| |_Henrietta Robins MACK ___|
| |_Rebecca Amelia ROBINS ___
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|--William Greenleaf ELIOT
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| _Theodore SESSINGHAUS ____|
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|_Minna Charlotte SESSINGHAUS _|
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|_Bertha Charlotte KAYSER _|
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Educated in public schools of Portland, Oregon, and Reed College (A.B. 1919); graduate student in Economics at Harvard University, 1919-1922 (A.M. 1920); Assistant in Economics, Harvard University, 1921-1922; Instructor in Economics, Wesleyan University, 1922-1924; research study, Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, 1924-1925.
Economist with United States Bureau of Public Roads, Washington, D.C., 1925-1945, Highway Engineer with same agency, 1945-1965. Consultant with International Road Federation, 1965-1971. Secretary, Joint Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 1946-1966.
Technical advisor to North American Representative, United Nations Group of Experts on Road Signs and Signals, 1950-1957; member U.S. delegation, Seventh Pan American Road Congress, Panama, 1957; advisor to Technical Committee on Traffic and Safety, Pan American Highway "Congresses, Mexico city, 1966.
In World War I, was Second Lieutenant with the S.A.T.C. at Washington State College, after training at the Presidio of San Francisco.
Contributing author, Traffic Engineering Handbook, 1950. Contributor to various technical publications.
Member, Board of Trustees, All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C., 1938-1941, and 1962-1965. Chairman, 1939-1941.
Life Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers.
From The Family of William Greenleaf Eliot and Abby Adams Eliot, as Chronicled by their Descendants, to 1988 by Henry Eliot Scott (1988)