Thomas Lamb ELIOT

• Birth: 13 OCT 1841, St. Louis,,MO,USA
• Death: 26 APR 1936, Portland,,OR,USA

• Marriage: 28 NOV 1865

1. William Greenleaf ELIOT
2. Mary Ely ELIOT
3. Dorothea Dix ELIOT
4. Ellen Smith ELIOT
5. Grace Cranch ELIOT
6. Henrietta Mack ELIOT
7. Samuel Ely ELIOT
8. Thomas Dawes ELIOT

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

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Educated at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, A.B. 1862; A.M. 1866; LL.D. 1912. Phi Beta Kappa, 1914; Harvard Divinity School, graduated 1865; Harvard University, S.T.D., 1889; Reed College, Portland, Oregon, Litt.D. 1916.

Minister-at-large, Mission Free School, St. Louis, Missouri, 1962-1864; Tutor and Assistant Instructor in Greek and Latin, Smith Academy, St. Louis, Missouri, 1962-1864. Enlisted member of Halleck Guard, Seventh Regiment, Missouri State Militia, 1862.

Associate Pastor, Church of the Messiah, St. Louis, Missouri, 1865-1867. Pastor, First Unitarian Society, Portland, Oregon, 1867-1893; Pastor Emeritus, 1893-1936. Director, American Unitarian Association, 1890-1899; Commissioner to Japan, 1903. Member, Pacific Unitarian Conference, 1885-1892. Trustee, Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry, 1906-1918.

County Superintendent of Schools, Multnomah County, Oregon, 1872-1876; Board of Park Commissioners, Portland, Oregon, 1900-1906. Trustee, Children's Home, 1887-1923; Secretary, 1887-1905, President, 1905-1916; President, Oregon Humane Society, 1882-1905; Trustee, and Honorary Trustee, Boys' and Girls" Aid Society, 1902l-1936; Director, City Board of Charities, Portland, 1890-1900, Vice-President, 1895; President, Oregon State Conference of Charities and Corrections, 1902-1912; Secretary, Ladies' Relief Society, Portland, 1900-1901, President, 1901-1916; Prisoners' Aid Society, member of the Board, 1903-1919; Trustee, Portland Art Association, 1892-1917, Vice-President, 1898-1916, President, 1916-1917; Director Portland Library Association, 1896-1916, Vice-President, 1900-1916; Trustee, Reed Institute, 1904-1925, President of the Board, 1904-1920.

Publications: many reprints of articles in newspapers; also sundry addresses or sermons, of which the most important was Is not this Joseph's Son?, and The Radical Difference between Liberal Christianity and Orthodoxy, both published as tracts by the American Unitarian Association. See Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1841-1936 by Earl M. Wilbur, published in Portland, Oregon, 1937.

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