Additional papers, 1870-1978
Related Entities
There are 5 Entities related to this resource.
Eliot (Family : Boston, Mass.)
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63w07tc (family)
The Eliot family is the American branch of one of several British families to hold this surname. This branch is based in Boston but originated in East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset. It is one of the Boston Brahmins, a bourgeois family whose ancestors had become wealthy and held sway over the American education system. All are the descendants of two men named Andrew Eliot, father and son, who emigrated from East Coker to Beverly, Massachusetts between 1668 and 1670. The elder Andrew (1627-March 1, 1703...
Eliot, Martha M. (Martha May), 1891-1978
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h816dg (person)
Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891 – February 14, 1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health, an assistant director for WHO, and an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first important research, community studies of rickets in New Haven, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico, explored issues at the heart of social medicine. Together with Edwards A. Park, her research established that public health measures (dietary supplementation with vitamin...
Eliot, Abigail Adams, 1892-1992
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s866dv (person)
Abigail Adams Eliot was born October 9, 1892, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the youngest child of Reverend Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856-1945) and Mary Jackson (May) Eliot (1859-1926). Her sister, Martha May Eliot (whose papers are in the Schlesinger Library, MC 229), was head of the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor between 1951 and 1956. Her brother, Frederick May Eliot, was head of the Unitarian Association of America starting in 1937 till his death in 1958. ...
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64r8k15 (person)
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...
Schmidt, William Morris, 1907-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gb3bkh (person)
Schmidt (University of Cincinnati, M.D. 1931) was associate professor, then head of the Department of Maternal and Child Health at Harvard School of Public Health, retiring as professor emeritus in 1973. His career included project work in nutrition in New York City, service with the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and foreign relief work during and after World War II through the U.S. Department of State and the American Joint Distribution Committee. H...
