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Samuel Atkins Eliot was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the third son of Samuel and Catherine (Atkins) Eliot, and a direct descendant of Andrew Eliot, who came to America from Somersetshire about 1668.
At the death of his father in the latter year, Eliot was left with a considerable fortune.
He graduated from Harvard in the class of 1817 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1820, but he was never ordained to the ministry.
He spent some time in study and then went abroad from 1823 to 1826, traveling extensively in Europe.
Eliot now entered upon a career of uninterrupted and varied usefulness as a servant of the public.
He sat for several terms in the Massachusetts General Court and was an alderman during the mayoralty of his brother-in-law, Theodore Lyman, Jr.
He was chiefly responsible for the first American performances, in Boston, of Beethoven’s symphonies.
When a riot was caused by a collision between a volunteer fire company and an Irish funeral procession, Eliot courageously marched down Broad St. at the head of one hundred militiamen.
Later, after an investigation, he disbanded all the volunteer engine companies and established a paid fire department.
He also insisted on the formation of a competent police force in the municipality.
In 1823, Eliot gave to Harvard Warden’s extensive collection of books on American history.
From 1842 to 1853 he was treasurer of Harvard College, and, while holding this position, published his Sketch of the History of Harvard College and of its Present State (1848).
Although Eliot was strongly opposed to slavery, he believed in the Compromise of 1850.
When Robert C. Winthrop was appointed to the United States Senate in 1850 as Webster’s successor, Eliot took Winthrop’s seat in Congress, serving from August 22, 1850, to March 3, 1851.
Webster looked upon the election as indicating approval of his own conduct and said of it, “From the commencement of the government, no such consequences have attended any single election, as those that flowed from Mr. Eliot’s election”.
While in the House of Representatives, Eliot voted for the compromise measures, including the Fugitive-Slave Law, and was therefore severely denounced by Abolitionists.
He defended himself ably in a letter to the Advertiser, October 29, 1850.
Four years later, though he had declined réélection to Congress, he presided over a meeting held at Faneuil Hall, Febuary 23, 1854, and again made public his convictions in a vigorous protest against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
He spent his declining years in “honorable poverty” in Cambridge, where he died in his sixty-fourth year, a poor and disappointed man.
As treasurer of the Prison Discipline Society, Eliot was assailed in 1847 by Charles Sumner (E. L. Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Simmer, vol. Ill, 1893, p. 79), but seems to have had the better of the dispute.
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president of the Academy of Music
member of the Boston School Committee
treasurer of the Prison Discipline Society
first president of Boston Provident Association and a warden of King’s Chapel
He was a high-minded and public- spirited aristocrat, whom even his enemies described as sincere.
Sumner said of him (September 2, 1850) that he was “an honest and obstinate man, ” but a more favorable verdict is that of Webster, who wrote of Eliot (September 12, 1850), “he is considered the impersonation of Boston; ever-intelligent, ever-patriotic, ever-glori- ous Boston. ”
On June 13, 1826, he married Mary Lyman, daughter of the Boston merchant, Theodore Lyman, by whom he had four daughters and one son, Charles William Eliot [q. v. f, later president of Harvard.
