- Henry Ware Eliot
Henry Ware Eliot (
November 25 ,1843 –January 7 ,1919 ) was an Americanindustrialist andphilanthropist who lived inSt. Louis ,Missouri .He was the son of Abigail Adams (Cranch) and
William Greenleaf Eliot , a prominent St. Louis minister and a co-founder ofWashington University . On October 27, 1868 atLexington, Massachusetts Eliot marriedCharlotte Champe Stearns . They were the parents of two sons and five daughters: Ada Sheffield; Margaret Dawes Eliot; Charlotte Smith; Marian Cushing Eliot; Henry Ware Eliot, Jr.; Theodora Sterling Eliot and Thomas Stearns Eliot (the poetT. S. Eliot ).He was graduated from the Washington University, A.B. 1863. First employed by Reed and Green, in the wholesale grocery business, then a partner in the firm of Eliot and Larkin as manufacturing chemists. In 1874 he became Secretary of the
Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis, later serving in all offices including President until his retirement at age 70 when he was made Chairman to retain the benefit of his judgment and experience. He was on the Board of Directors of Washington University, 1877-1919; President of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 1902; Trustee of theMissouri Botanical Garden , 1902-1903. He compiled a record of the descendants of William Greenleaf (1724-1803) in later life.External links
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