Personal Life
On 27 October 1858, Eliot married Ellen Derby Peabody (1836–1869) in Boston. They had four sons, one of whom, Charles Eliot (November 1, 1859-March 25, 1897) was an important landscape architect, responsible for the public park system in Boston. Another son, Samuel Atkins Eliot II (August 24, 1862- October 15, 1950) was a Unitarian minister who became the first and longest-serving president of the American Unitarian Association (1900–1927). The Nobel Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot was a cousin and attended Harvard from 1906 through 1909, graduating in three instead of the normal four years, which were the last three years of Charles' presidency.
After Ellen Derby Peabody died at the age of 33 of tuberculosis, Eliot married a second wife in 1877, Grace Mellen Hopkinson (1846–1924). This second marriage did not produce any children. Grace was a close relative of Frances Stone Hopkinson, wife of Samuel Atkins Eliot II, his son.
Though he retired from Harvard's presidency in 1909, Eliot lived until 1926. He is interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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