William Greenleaf Eliot

Background

Eliot, William Greenleaf was born on October 13, 1866 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Review Thomas L. (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws, Little D.) and Henrietta R. (Mack) E.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Washington University, 1888, Doctor of Laws, 1932. Harvard Divinity School, 1889-1891. Doctor of Divinity, Meadville Theological School, 1925.

Doctor of Letters, Reed College, 1944.

Career

Was pastor successively Seattle, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Superintendent American Unitarian Association in Pacific North.W., 1901-1906. Minister Church of Our Father, Portland, Oregon, 1906-1934, now emeritus.

Director congresses and conferences Lewis and Clark Exposition, 1905.

Regent Reed College, 1926-1944, honorary trustee, since 1944.

Achievements

• William Greenleaf Eliot has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Phi Beta Kappa. Club: City.

Connections

Married Minna Sessinghaus, 1894 (died 1944). Children: Clara Eliot (Mistress R. B. Raup), William G. III, Mistress Ruth Eliot Prentiss, Theodore South. Ordained to the ministry, 1894.

Father:

Review Thomas L. Eliot

Spouse:

Minna Sessinghaus

child:

William G. III Eliot

child:

Mistress Ruth Eliot Prentiss Eliot

child:

Clara Eliot Eliot (Mistress R. B. Raup)

child:

1894 Eliot

child:

Theodore South. Ordained to the ministry Eliot