| LC control no. | no2014092227 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Eliot, Samuel, 1739-1820 |
| Variant(s) | Elliot, Samuel, 1739-1820 |
| Located | Boston (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1739 |
| Death date | 1820 |
| Field of activity | Banks and banking |
| Affiliation | Harvard University |
| Profession or occupation | Merchants Bankers |
| Found in | Exercise book and poems of Samuel Eliot, 1753 Museum at Mass General, via WWW, June 17, 2014 (Samuel Eliot, 1739-1820; self-made man who was a benefactor of the Massachusetts General Hospital; son of a bookseller and the nephew of a clergyman; a prominent Boston merchant; for several years he was president of the Bank of Massachusetts; his son, Samuel Atkins Eliot, served four terms as the mayor of Boston; anonymously donated $20,000 to Harvard to found a professorship of Greek literature; the name of the donor was not discovered until his death, when the chair was named the Eliot Professorship of Greek Literature) Worcester, N. Abraham and Lot, 1812: inscr. (Saml. Elliot, Esq. Boston) |
| Associated language | eng |
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