Samuel Atkins Eliot
Samuel Atkins Eliot, A.M., D.D. (August 24, 1862 – October 15, 1950) was an American Unitarian clergyman, son of Charles W. Eliot and grandson of Samuel Atkins Eliot, the politician. For more on his lineage see the Eliot family.
He was born at Cambridge, Mass., and graduated from Harvard in 1884. He held pastorates at Denver, Colo. and Brooklyn, N. Y., and served from 1900-1927 as the president of the American Unitarian Association. He wrote A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913 (1913).
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