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Portrait of Henry Ware Eliot by Abbott Handerson Thayer. Henry Ware Eliot (November 25, 1843 – January 7, 1919) was an American industrialist and philanthropist who lived in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the father of poet T. S. Eliot.
The poet’s father, Henry Ware Eliot (‘Hal’) was the son of the Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot (1811–87) and Abby Adams Cranch (1817–1908). Born on 25 November 1843, he was educated at Washington University, St Louis.
Jul 8, 2020 · Henry Ware Eliot and T. S. Eliot on a boat trip, Gloucester 1895. The house built by Eliot’s father, named ‘The Downs’, was completed in 1896. It is described in America as a ‘cottage’, but is a far cry from the small, low-ceilinged house you might expect to find in England.
T.S. Eliot's father, Henry Ware Eliot was educated at Washington University, St Louis and had successful career becoming the Treasurer and President of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company. He married Charlotte Champe Stearns in 1868.
Questions of marriage dominated the lives of both brothers: at least where they approached Vivien, Henry was nearest to Eliot’s heart. If Henry was critical of their marriage – at times suspicious, even distrustful of Vivien – he was also sympathetic and patient with its discords.
Henry Ware Eliot Jr. was a writer, archeologist, brother of poet T.S. Eliot, and the collector of the nucleus of the Eliot Collection at Harvard University. The collection consists of 27 letters, 1934-1935 and 1944-1947, from Henry Ware Eliot Jr. to writers Henry B. Harvey and his wife Dorothy Dudley Harvey, and six miscellaneous items.
Letters of the American writer Henry Ware Eliot, Jr. to his mother and other relatives, and portraits of the American poet T.S. Eliot.
