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Henry Ware Eliot was born on 25 November 1843 in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri. [1] He was the son of Abigail Adams (Cranch) and William Greenleaf Eliot, a prominent St. Louis Unitarian minister who was a co-founder of Washington University. Eliot graduated from Washington University, A.B. 1863.
Eliot once said that his America ended in 1829; until then the country seemed like ‘a family extension’. What exactly that date meant to him must be a guess. It was then that the civilised elite of the Eastern seaboard lost its power with the inauguration of the uncultivated Andrew Jackson, who had defeated the sixth President, John Quincy Adams (related to the Eliots) in the election of 1828.
Lot Essay. T.S. Eliot's father, Henry Ware Eliot was educated at Washington University, St Louis and had successful career becoming the Treasurer and President of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company. He married Charlotte Champe Stearns in 1868. T.S. Eliot was the youngest of their seven children. View All.
It had been built at the instigation of the poet’s father, Henry Ware Eliot Snr, on land he had purchased near to the shore at Eastern Point. For almost two decades, from childhood to adolescence, it was the setting for one half of Eliot’s youth – on the shingled verandah, among the rockpools, in the woods, at sea, a landscape to which again and again his poetic imagination returned.
Dear Eliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother) as curator of Eliotana;e9 Emily: I received today your welcome letter, and the box of MSS, etc., on which I am grieved to see that you had to pay over $2.00 postage.
A família Eliot sempre foi reconhecida por sua participação no universo cultural. Os pais de Thomas, Henry Ware Eliot, industrial, e Charlotte Chauncey Stearns, de família afortunada, integrante da aristocracia mercantil de Boston, detentora de preciosa cultura no campo humanístico, com alguns dons literários, tiveram sete filhos, dos quais o poeta é o caçula.
