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Eisendrath, 4930 Pershing Ave., St. Louis, Missouri. Includes genealogical data on her family.
Cite as: Erna Rice Eisendrath Biographical Data Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A2683
Elam, Alva G. (1887- ).
Biographical Data Sheet, 1953 June 24. 1 item [formerly Alphabetical File]
Biographical data sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by Alva G. Elam, 6010
South Kingshighway Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri. Includes genealogical data on his family.
Cite as: Alva G. Elam Biographical Data Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0445
Eliot, Henry Ware (1843-1919).
Papers, 1862-1929. 12 folders (approximately 40 items)
Henry Ware Eliot was the son of William Greenleaf Eliot, the founder of Washington
University and the father of T.S. Eliot. He was a wholesale grocer, manufacturing chemist, and
president of Hydraulic-Press Brick Company. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of
Washington University and affiliated with the Academy of Science and the Missouri Botanical
Garden.
Collection includes official military papers relating to Eliot’s service in the Enrolled Missouri
Militia during the Civil War; papers concerning Mrs. Eliot's work for legislation regarding
delinquent and destitute children; three notebooks of Mrs. Eliot's poetry and family
correspondence with their sons, Henry Ware Eliot, Jr., and T.S. Eliot.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Henry Ware Eliot Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0446
Eliot, William Greenleaf (1811-1887).
Papers, 1832-1886; [1887-1961]. 2 boxes
William G. Eliot was born in 1811, and was ordained a Unitarian minister in 1834. He came
to St. Louis in the same year and resided there until his death in 1887. He married Abigail
Adams Cranch in 1837. A social reformer as well as minister, Eliot was a zealous worker in the
St. Louis cholera epidemic of 1849, a founder of the Western Sanitary Commission in St. Louis
during the Civil War, and a founder of Washington University and Mary Institute. He established
the first Unitarian church, and was an early advocate of prohibition and of women’s suffrage and
the education of women.
The collection includes manuscript and published sermons and addresses of William G. Eliot
including the following: “Loyalty and Religion” (1861); “The Lost Birthright: A Sermon for the
Young” (1863); “Emancipation in Missouri” (1863); “Steadfastness and Change: A Sermon for
the New Year” (1864); “Newsboys Home Lecture” (1871); “Mothers & Daughters” (1871);
“Confirmation” (1871); “The Heavenly Voice” (1871); “The First Stone: A Sermon for Lent”
(1871); “The Devil and the Angels” (1871); “Bread” (1871-1872); “Palm Sunday: The Sure
Triumph” (1871); “Easter Sunday” (1871); “The Sabbath Worker” (1871); “Christian Work in
the City” (1871); “Whitsuntide: Pentecost” (1871); “The Just Shall Live by Faith” (1871); “The
Fire Shall Try Every Work of What Sort It Is” (references the Chicago fire, 1871); “The Broad
Church” (1872); “Treatment of the Guilty” (1875); “Faith! Hope! Charity! A Practical Sermon”
(1876); “Religious Truth Made Vital by the Life of Jesus Christ” (1882); “The Christian Law of
Life” (1885); “Washington’s Birthday: Patriotism”; “An Address on the Life and Character of