Eliot, Jacob, 1734-1785.

ELLSWORTH ELIOT, JR. B.A. 1884

Born June 6, 1864, in New York City. Died November 2, 1945, in New York City.

Father, Ellsworth Eliot (B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; M.D. Columbia 1852), a physician in New York City; son of Wyllys and Lucy (Camp) Elliot of North Guilford, Conn.

Mother, Anna (Stone) Eliot; daughter of Joshua and Ruth Shaw (Sumner) Stone of Boston. Yale relatives include: Jared Eliot (B.A. 1706) (great-great-great-uncle); Harvey Elliot (B.A. 1805) (great-uncle).

Dr. Calliser's School, New York City. Dissertation appointment junior year; first dispute appointment Senior year; member Delta Kappa.

Attended College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1884-1887 (M.D. 1887); on surgical staff New York Hospital 1887-1889; studied in Vienna and Berlin 1889-1890; surgeon in New York City 1890-1945; lecturer in clinical surgery College of Physicians and Surgeons and gave course called "Eliot's Quiz" to medical students 1890-1913; visiting surgeon Presbyterian, Gouveneur, Lawrence, Bronxville, and White Plains hospitals, and Northeastern Dispensary, New York City, 1896-1936; surgical director Knickerbocker Hospital 1930-1936; attended Medical Officers Training Camp, Fort Riley and Camp Crane, 1917-1918; commissioned Major April 7, 1917; went overseas August 15, 1918; surgical director Evacuation Hospital No. 11, American Expeditionary Forces, in Château-Thierry, St. Mihicl, and Argonne-Meuse campaigns; consulting surgeon Tours and Orleans section; returned to the United States January 23, and discharged January 25, 1919; author: Yale in the Civil War (1932), Letters and Palters of Ezra Stiles (1933), Theodore Winthrop (1938), West Point in the Confederacy (1941), and The Patriotism of Joseph Reed (1943); contributed many articles on surgery to medical journals; chairman surgical section New York Academy of Medicine 1909-1910; president New York Surgical Society 1909-1911 and American Surgical Association 1928; member Century Association, The Pilgrims, Grolier Club, and New York Genealogical and Biographical, and Historical societies.

Married June 15, 1904, in New York City, Lucy Carter, daughter of George Harrison and Lucy Carter (Wickham) Byrd. Children: Evelyn Byrd (B.A. Vassar 1928), the wife of Dexter Clarkson Hawkins (B.A. Harvard 1920; LL.B. Columbia 1922); and Lucy Carter (B.A. Vassar 1935).

Death due to lymphosarcoma. Buried in Alder Brook Cemetery, Guilford, Conn, Survived by wife, daughters, and there grandchildren.

Dr. Eliot presented to the University Library many books and other gifts, especially manuscripts of importance in the history of Yale and the United States. In 1927 he established in memory of his father the Ellsworth Eliot fund for research and publication.

From the guide to the Jacob Eliot family papers, 1716-1945, (Manuscripts and Archives)