Eliot, SAMUEL

Eliot, SAMUEL, an American author, born in Boston in 1821, graduated at Harvard, and was professor of History and Political Science in Trinity College, Hartford, in 1856-64, being also its president in 1860-64. Between 1864 and 1874 he lectured there and at Harvard, and he afterwards filled important posts in the Boston schools. He received the degree of LL.D. from Columbia in 1863, and from Harvard in 1880. The first two parts of a History of Liberty appeared in 1847-49-53. He also published a Manual of United States History (1856; revised ed. 1873).