Eliot, Samuel Atkins (1862-1950) 2/16/2016 Samuel Atkins Eliot II Samuel Atkins Eliot II Samuel Atkins Eliot II (August 24, 1862-October 15, 1950) was the first president of the American Unitarian Association (AUA) to be given executive power; he held this office from 1900 to 1927. In 1925 the two major American Unitarian Dictionary of organizations, the AUA and the National Unitarian & Conference of Churches (NCC), were merged Universalist under his leadership. Eliot did not SO much rise to Biography prominence as capitalize on family ties. Yet he defined his unprecedented ecclesiastical office Search the Dictionary with vision and engaged it with vigor. Eliot believed passionately in the then new theories of Alphabetical List "scientific" corporate management, parts of which are now rejected as naive. Even so, many patterns of authority instituted A-F G-N 0-Z by Eliot are still in place in today's Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Main Page The Eliot family history in America begins with John Eliot (1604-1690), About the Project first minister of the congregation in Roxbury, Massachusetts and famous Editors in history books as the "Apostle to the Indians." Eliot's paternal Contact Us grandfather, Samuel Atkins Eliot (1798-1862), a member of King's Chapel, was a reformist mayor of Boston and a co-founder of the Handel Notes for Contributors and Haydn Society. Dr. Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), the mayor's Information Form son and minister's father, was a chemist who revolutionized higher education as president of Harvard University, 1867-1909. Sam's maternal grandfather was Ephraim Peabody, a distinguished minister of King's Chapel. Sam was also related by marriage to Henry Whitney Bellows, Unitarian Universalist minister of what is now the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York Association City and organizer in 1865 of the NCC, the first organization of Unitarian Unitarian Universalist and other liberal Christian congregations. History & Heritage Society Samuel A. Eliot was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father, widowed when Sam was six years old, did not remarry until 1877. Rather General Assembly of Unitarian and Free than attending any school, Sam spent his formative years in the company Christian Churches of his father and the tightly knit Harvard faculty. Under their guidance (UK) Sam and his brother, architect Charles Eliot, were educated individually. Harvard Square Library In late adolescence Sam entered Harvard for more formal studies. Despite claims of having been an indifferent student, young Sam Eliot received his A.B. in 1884 cum laude. To recover from a serious illness, he took a postgraduate tour of the southeastern United States and the Caribbean. He entered Harvard Divinity School in 1885. In 1888, before he finished Divinity School, the AUA sent Eliot to Seattle, Washington as a missionary. Declining to settle there, despite considerable success, he returned East to complete his course work. In 1889, after graduation, Eliot married his stepsister, Frances Hopkinson. The couple had seven children. 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A member of one of 19th century New England's most accomplished families, Eliot Square Library vigorously expanded the denomination's identity through application of the then-new "scientific management." Many of Eliot's innovations in governance and patterns of authority DONATE can still be seen in today's Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Under his leadership the two major American Unitarian organizations, the AUA and the National Conference of Safe & Secure Churches (NCC), were merged in 1925, paving the way for Unitarian consolidation with the Universalist Church of America in 1961. Buy Books at Amazon and Support HSL Samuel Atkins Eliot was the third generation of his family (and the second of his name) to grasp the helm of a major institution with the intention of improving its operation. Sam's amazon paternal grandfather, the first Samuel Atkins Eliot, pursued public cultural interests ranging from membership in King's Chapel to co-founding Boston's premier choral society, the Handel and Hayden Society. A conscientious businessman, grandfather Eliot served as mayor of Boston from 1836 to 1850 (coming immediately after his own brother-in-law, Theodore Sign Up for Updates Lyman). Mayor Eliot disestablished the social network within Boston's volunteer fire departments, despite serious threats to his family, property and person. The second institution- Enter your email JOIN NOW reforming member of the lineage was Dr. Charles William Eliot, the mayor's son and Sam's father, who briefly taught college chemistry before becoming President of Harvard University. From 1869 to 1909 Charles William Eliot revolutionized modern higher education by shifting emphasis away from tradition instruction toward a system for mentored individual learning. This is now known as Ike Harvard Methodic Sam was also distantly related by marriage to the much older Henry Whitney Bellows, minister of what is now the Unitarian Church of All http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/samuel-atkins-eliot-2/ 1/10 11.53 MEMORIAL OF Samuel de Champlain WHO DISCOVERED THE ISLAND OF MT. DESERT MAINE September 5, 1604 JALUAL DE CHAMPLAIN 1512 SOLDIER SAKON AH2 ADDIDISTRATOR will are THIS STANDIT NAME PRIVATELY PRINTED 1906 Introductory Note THE Three Hundredth Anniversary of the dis- covery of the Island of Mount Desert was cele- brated at North East Harbor September 5, 1904. Subscribers to the Champlain Memorial, 1904 Addresses were made in the Union Church by Presi- dent Eliot, of Harvard University, and by Hon. Seth MRS. EDWIN H. ABBOT MRS. G. G. HAYWARD Low, late President of Columbia University. MISSES BLANCHARD R. M. HOE Shortly afterwards a number of the summer visitors MISS BLODGETT MRS. ELIJAH HUBBARD at North East Harbor and Seal Harbor contributed MRS. E. W. CLARK PRESIDENT AND MRS. SETH Low MISS FRANCES CLARK COMMANDER M. A. MILLER, U. S. N a sum sufficient for placing a moss-covered stone MISS HARRIET CLARKE MR. AND MRS. HENRY PARKMAN tablet, with suitable inscriptions, on a point of land MRS. JOSIAH P. COOKE REV. DR. F. G. PEABODY east of Seal Harbor, which affords a fine view of the GEORGE B. COOKSEY MISS PRIME coast, from the Atlantic to the Western Way, the REV. DR. J. S. DENNIS JAMES FORD RHODES route followed by Champlain. RT. REV. W. C. DOANE MR. AND MRS. WINTHROP SARGENT On the 18th of July, 1906, the contributors to the EDWARD K. DUNHAM, M. D. REV. DR. CORNELIUS B. SMITH fund, and a few of their friends, assembled near the PRESIDENT C. W. ELIOT RT. REV. A. MACKAY-SMITH Memorial Stone and listened to a brief recital of the WILLIAM W. FRAZIER WILLIAM W. SPENCE JAMES T. GARDINER GEORGE L. STEBBINS events connected with Champlain's voyage, by Rev. DANIEL C. GILMAN MR. AND MRS. J. G. THORP Samuel A. Eliot, D. D. The tablets were then MRS. ZABRISKIE GRAY MR. AND MRS. A. C. WHEELWRIGHT unveiled by Wright Ludington, the youngest person MRS. ROGER WOLCOTT present. President Eliot read the inscriptions, and added a few remarks upon the characteristics of Champlain. The verses which are here printed were then recited by the author of them, Rev. Professor William Adams Brown, of New York. D. C. G. Address by Reu. Sawnel A. Elint, D. D. NEW ENGLAND was called New France for Inscriptions fifty years before Captain John Smith gave it its present name. Fifteen years before the Mayflower OBVERSE. came to anchor in Plymouth Harbor its waters had IN HONOR OF been sounded and its outlines drawn by Champlain SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN and his comrades. The Pilgrims, had they known BORN IN FRANCE 1567 of it, might have bought, ere they sailed, at a little DIED AT QUEBEC 1635 shop in the Rue St. Jean de Beauvais in Paris, a A SOLDIER SAILOR EXPLORER chart of Plymouth Harbor remarkable for its AND ADMINISTRATOR accuracy and skill. Twenty-five years before John WHO GAVE THIS ISLAND ITS NAME. Winthrop and his company landed on the Peninsula REVERSE. where they planted Boston, these same Frenchmen THE SAME DAY WE PASSED ALSO NEAR had mapped the bay, described its features with sur- AN ISLAND ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE LEAGUES LONG. prising fidelity, and named its points and inlets. IT IS VERY HIGH, NOTCHED IN PLACES, The effort at French colonization in America found so AS TO APPEAR FROM THE SEA its impulse in the patriotic pride and chivalric spirit LIKE A RANGE OF SEVEN OR EIGHT MOUNTAINS of that many-sided monarch, Henry the Fourth. CLOSE TOGETHER. THE SUMMITS OF MOST OF THEM This landfall at Mount Desert, which we celebrate ARE BARE OF TREES FOR THEY ARE NOTHING BUT ROCK. I NAMED IT THE today, connects itself directly with the revocation of ISLAND OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS. the Edict of Nantes signed by Henry in 1598. That CHAMPLAIN'S JOURNAL 5 SEPT., 1604. decree meant nothing less than the speedy return of commercial prosperity to France and the possibility of carrying out the King's ambition to make France a power on the sea and to promote adventure and dis- covery and trade in distant lands. Several attempts boats from boyhood, and the sea laid a strong hold at settlement in New France were made but nothing upon his imagination. In the dedication of one of permanent was accomplished and in 1604 Henry com- his books he says "Among the most useful and missioned a Huguenot gentleman, Pierre Du Guast, excellent arts navigation has always seemed to me to Sieur de Monts to head a colony, granting to him a take the first place. In the measure that it is danger- monopoly of trade and vice-regal authority. De ous and accompanied by a thousand perils, by SO much Monts associated with himself a number of merchants is it honorable and lifted above all other arts, being in and adventurers and among them was the pilot-general no wise suitable for those who lack courage and confi- of the French navy, Samuel de Champlain. dence. By this art we acquire knowledge of various This man, whose word and valor this stone com- lands, countries, and kingdoms. By it we bring home memorates, was a true hero. Throughout a long and all sorts of riches, by it the idolatry of Paganism is adventurous career he displayed a steadfast courage, overthrown and Christianity declared in all parts of a resourceful mind, a kindly heart, an indomitable the earth. It is this art that has from my childhood patience. Though a devout Catholic he was extraordi- lured me to love it, and has caused me to expose narily tolerant in religion. Though strict in discipline myself almost all my life to the rude waves of the he was considerate, just and merciful. Though his ocean." When he enlisted in De Monts' expedition opportunities for education must have been scanty, he was about thirty-seven years old. He had already yet he wrote and drew remarkably well, and there is a made an adventurous journey to Panama and the Span- blitheness of mood about him, a friendliness of spirit, ish main, and he had just returned from a voyage to a quaintness of speech that must have made him a New France and the River St. Lawrence. rarely good comrade and an inspiring leader. De Monts sailed with his company in March, 1604, Champlain was born in 1567, in the little town of and after coasting along the shores of Nova Scotia and Brouage, on the Bay of Biscay, some twenty miles up into the Bay of Fundy, he chose as the site of the south of La Rochelle. His father was a captain in colony an island in the river which now bears the the royal navy, and one of his uncles was a pilot name which he gave to his settlement, Saint Croix. in the king's service. Champlain was familiar with There the colonists passed the summer clearing the ground, building their fort and setting up their houses, places so that from the sea it gives the appearance of and early in September, after the ship that brought a range of seven or eight mountains. The summits them had gone back to France to bring out reinforce- are all bare and rocky. The slopes are covered with ments in the succeeding spring, Champlain took twelve pines, firs, and birches. I named it Isle des Monts of the men, together with two Indians, and set out on Desert." a voyage of discovery along the coast to the westward. The next day the voyagers had a conference with They sailed in a big open boat which Champlain called some Indians who came out to meet them and who a "patache." As depicted in Champlain's drawing of agreed to guide them to the Penobscot. They sailed the St. Croix settlement this boat had a single lateen up that river to the point where Bangor now stands sail, but when the wind was ahead they used oars. and then passed out by Owl's Head, and continued Now let me quote Champlain's own narrative west as far as the Kennebec. Then, as their provisions Setting out from the mouth of the St. Croix and were running low, they ran back before the wind and sailing westward along the coast, we made the same arrived at St. Croix on the third of October, or just day some twenty-five leagues and passed by many a month after they set out. When we consider what islands, reefs, and rocks, which sometimes extend watchfulness is required in these days of light-houses, more than four leagues out to sea. The islands charts, buoys and beacons, to navigate among the are covered with pines, firs, and other trees of an numberless islands and sunken ledges of this ragged inferior sort. Among the islands are many fine and fog-haunted coast, what shall we say of the seaman- harbors, but undesirable for permanent settlement. ship and adventurous courage of the first pioneers. The same day (September 5, 1604) we passed The St. Croix colony did not endure, but the name near to an island some four or five leagues long, in of Champlain is writ large on this continent. For the neighborhood of which we just escaped being lost fortitude, devout serenity, and prudent zeal it would be on a rock that was just awash and which made a hole hard to match this pioneer of New France. Champlain in the bottom of our boat. From this island to the became the father of Canada and the bold explorer mainland on the north the distance is not more than of the western wilds. He planted the fleur-de-lis on ) a hundred paces. The island is high and notched in the rock of Quebec, and there on Christmas day of 181 d, striving to the last for the welfare of his Lines by Reu. William Adams Brown, D. D. glad to draw his last breath in the wilder- , as he wrote, he had "always desired to y flourish and the true religion, Catholic, In Champlain and Roman." We do well to commemo- If, from some eyrie in the distant sky, dest hero and his half-forgotten adventures Thine eagle eye, still sweeping o'er the main, asts. His heroic monument stands fitly at Upon this rock-bound coast should chance again, Which first thy searching vision did descry; t this stone will remind many a fortunate ere of the dauntless Frenchman, who first Then shall this boulder, which to-day we raise, As messenger a silent greeting bring en, looked upon this favored island and From the new friends whose later voyaging he name it bears. Has found safe haven in these quiet bays. Many fair gifts, bold courser of the seas ! Thy laughing France with lavish hand has showered Upon this daughter of the West,-undowered When first she knelt and clasped her sister's knees. One gift France held, and lightly tossed aside,- A barren isle, sea-swept and tempest-driven Its lonely hills unscaled, its rocks unriven In that far day when thou didst pass in pride. Desert the name thou gavest, great Champlain ! Desert she seemed,-this island of our love ; Yet in her dales the birches' silver grove Reared its white columns for her sylvan fane. By the bare rocks that buttress Sargent's crown The scarlet lily shamed the evening sky ; While on the bosom of the lake hard by Her snow-white sister nestled gently down. From out these mossy glades, fern-canopied, The orchid raised his purple-fringed head, And the shy twin-flower softly carpeted The silent paths thou didst disdain to tread. Desert the isle, such joys as these doth hold ! Nay, dauntless traveller, return once more ! The scenes so quickly left again explore, And thou shalt see new graces still unfold. No longer now the silent spaces yield Such song alone as woodland minstrels raise ; Here Man with Nature joins his voice in praise For wounds bound up and ancient sorrows healed. Here shalt thou see in goodly fellowship Ripe age with youth go laughing side by side Down some long alley of the woods, where hide Sweet treasures waiting for the eye and lip. Across the bosom of this sparkling sea, Through which of old thy piercing prow did glide, Thou shalt behold white canvas swell in pride, And on the breeze that blows so merrily Shalt hear anon, if such thy happy chance, Quick wit so lightly flash in quip and jest Thou shalt transfer thine East unto our West, And think thyself again at home in France. ABIGAIL, the Library Catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society Page 1 of 2 Massachusetts Historical Society ABIGAIL the Library Catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society Founded 1791 Search Headings Titles History Help ABIGAIL Home Database Name: Massachusetts Historical Society Search Request: Author = Eliot, Charles, Search Results: Displaying 1 through 10 of 14 entries. Find This: Eliot, Charles, Find Results in: Keyword Anywhere Quick Limit: None 10 records per page Submit Reset Previous Next Post Limit Sort by: OPAC Name # Headings Search Title Long Date Eliot, Samuel A. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the (Samuel Atkins), 1862- 1909 leading men in the state / Samuel Atkins Eliot editor-in-chief. [1] 1950 Library Location: printed Call Number: F70 E42 1909 Status: Not Charged Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862- Heralds of a liberal faith / Edited with an introduction by Samuel A. Eliot. 1910 (2) 1950 Library Location: reference Call Number: BX9867. Status: Not Charged Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862- Historic towns of New England / edited by Lyman P. Powell. 1898 [3] 1950 Library Location: printed Call Number: F4 P83 1898 Status: Not Charged Eliot, Samuel A. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913 by Samuel Atkins Eliot (Samuel Atkins), 1862- 1913 together with biographies of Cambridge people. [4] 1950 Library Location: printed Call Number: F74.C1 E42 Status: Not Charged Eliot, Samuel A. Memorial of John Harvard : The gift to Harvard University of Samuel James (Samuel Atkins), 1862- Bridge. Ceremonies at the unveiling of the statue, October 15, 1884 / With an 1884 [5] 1950 address by George Edward Ellis. Title has multiple holdings Eliot, Samuel A. Memorial of Samuel de Champlain : who discovered the Island of Mt. Desert, (Samuel Atkins), 1862- 1906 [6] 1950 Maine, September 5, 1604. Library Location: printed Call Number: B Champlain Status: Not Charged [7] Eliot, Samuel A. Memories and forecasts : fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of Samuel A. Eliot, (Samuel Atkins), 1862- 1939 Arlington Street Church, Boston, November 12th, 1939. 1950 http://balthazaar.masshist.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Eliot%2C%20Char 7/1/2015 ABIGAIL, the Library Catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society Page 2 of 2 Library Location: printed Call Number: Guild Library Status: Not Charged Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862- Model lodging house : the want of better accommodations for the poor than those 1852 1950 which they can generally obtain is now universally recognized [8] Library Location: printed Call Number: Bdses-Sm 1852 Dec. Status: Not Charged Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862- Mount Desert; a history / by George E. Street; edited by Samuel A. Eliot, with a 1905 [9] 1950 memorial introduction by Wilbert L. Anderson. Library Location: printed Call Number: F27.M9 S9 1905 Status: Not Charged Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862- Pioneers of religious liberty in America : being the Great and Thursday lectures delivered in Boston in nineteen hundred and three. 1903 [ 10] 1950 Library Location: serials Call Number: Coal Bin Serials Am. Unitarian Assoc. Status: Not Charged Clear Selected Retain Selected Previous Next Record Options Records Select Download Format: Full Record Format for Print/Save All on Page Selected On Page Enter your email address: Email Selected all Pages Search Headings Titles History Help Exit http://balthazaar.masshist.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Eliot%2C%20Charl.. 7/1/2015 ABIGAIL, the Library Catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society Page 1 of 2 Massachusetts Historical Society ABIGAIL the Library Catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society Founded 1791 Search Headings Titles History Help ABIGAIL Home Database Name: Massachusetts Historical Society Search Request: Author = Eliot, Charles, Search Results: Displaying 11 through 14 of 14 entries. Find This: Eliot, Charles, Find Results in: Keyword Anywhere Quick Limit: None 10 records per page Submit Reset Previous Next Post Limit Sort by: OPAC Name # Headings Search Title Long Date Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), Report upon the conditions and needs of the Indians of the northwest coast / by 1915 Samuel A. Eliot, Member Board of Indian Commissioners. [11] 1862-1950 Library Location: printed Call Number: Box-L 1915 Status: Not Charged Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), Samuel A. Eliot memorial issue. 1951 [ 12 ] 1862-1950 Library Location: printed Call Number: Box-L 1951 Status: Not Charged Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), Samuel A. Eliot papers, 1889-1955. 1889 [ 13] 1862-1950 Library Location: manuscript Call Number: Ms. N-129 Status: Not Charged Eliot, Samuel A. Sowing and the vintage. A sermon / by Samuel A. Eliot preached on the (Samuel Atkins), occasion of the unveiling of two tablets bearing the names of the ministers and the 1923 [ 14 ] 1862-1950 list of the meeting-houses, Dec. 16, 1923. Library Location: printed Call Number: Box 1923 Status: Not Charged Clear Selected Retain Selected Previous Next Record Options Records Select Download Format: Full Record Format for Print/Save All on Page Selected On Page Enter your email address: Email Selected all Pages http://balthazaar.masshist.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?ti=11,0&SC=Author&SA=Eliot%2C. 7/1/2015 HANCOCK COUNTY TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC RESERVATIONS REPORTS 1950 - 1951 AND A TRIBUTE TO SAMUEL A. ELIOT HANCOCK COUNTY TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC RESERVATIONS OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 1950 - 1951 President, Ernest T. Paine First Vice-President, Philip R. Lovell Second Vice-President, John Whitcomb Secretary and Assistant Treasurer, Gerard L. Austin Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, Albert H. Cunningham EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Officers, as above, with these Members-at-Large: Hon. John A. Peters, Donald Stuart BLACK HOUSE COMMITTEE Ernest T. Paine, Chairman Richard W. Hale, Jr., Vice-Chairman Mrs. Jacques Cornelis Mrs. Philip R. Lovell Mrs. John C. Spring Miss Adeline Wing Professor Augustin Derby Col. H. B. Hayden Charles K. Savage REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT DR. SAMUEL A. ELIOT Dr. Samuel A. Eliot was among the first to become a member of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. From that As President of the Trustees I have two things to mention time until his death in the autumn of 1950 he was closely identified that are of major interest and importance. with the organization, serving for some years as First Vice-Presi- All of us remember that in the will of the late Harold A. Pit- man, Woodlawn was designated as the recipient of a residuary dent, always giving generously of time and effort toward the bequest. The bequest has now become available and will soon be accomplishments of its aims. in hand. Amounting to one hundred thousand dollars, approxi- mately, in well-invested securities, this splendid addition to the By natural inclination it was almost inevitable that Dr. Eliot Black House Endowment will relieve us of our perennial concern should actively associate himself with the Trustees. He loved na- about making both ends meet, and enable us, without solicitation of extra funds, to maintain the House in the manner to which it ture. He was deeply spiritual. He was earnest in the desire to has been accustomed. provide for the physical and spiritual refreshment of mankind. The objective of the Trustees, that of saving for public use and One item in the call for the present meeting will thus be under- enjoyment some of the choice scenic beauty of Mount Desert Is- stood. It is necessary to amend Article XI of our By-laws in such land, provided him with a unique opportunity to translate desire manner as to provide for convenient handling of largely increased into action. He did it with enthusiasm and today stands Acadia funds, and the proposed amendment has been drawn simply to National Park, a beauty spot and pleasuring ground where many facilitate the procedure of our Investment Committee. I should explain also that another measure has been taken to assist in the thousands of people find rest, relaxation and spiritual refresh- management of our enlarged resources. At the request of the Exe- ment, an everlasting memorial to Dr. Eliot and those who labored cutive Committee, distribution in kind is being made to us by with him in the pioneering work which ultimately bore such a the executors of the Pitman Estate, and, as has been stated, the splendid result. securities which will be so distributed are of high quality, but they will have to be safe-guarded and from time to time reviewed. Furthermore, our Treasurer, Mr. Cunningham, and our Investment Benjamin L. Hadley Committee, consisting of Mr. Cunningham, (ex-officio), Mr. Austin, and Mr. Whitcomb, are naturally reluctant to assume the full extent of this additional responsibility. They are willing, however, to study recommendations from investment counsel, accepting or rejecting in accordance with their best judgment the advice so ob- tained. Under these circumstances the Executive Committee has voted to continue in amended form an Agency Agreement which was arranged with the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company in 1947. By the terms of this agreement the Trust Company will furnish investment counsel at least semi-annually to the Investment Committee of the Trustees, receiving for this service 31/29 % of the income collected, or in any event a fee of not less than $200.00 are hereby tendered to Mr. Hadley for his very thorough and com- per annum. petent analysis of the problems involved in charting our future course. His findings, contained in an elaborate report, were of Concluding this whole topic I may be permitted to say that we vital assistance to the Special Committee. At our meeting a year do great honor to Mr. and Mrs. Pitman for their interest in the ago the Trustees adopted a resolution of gratitude to Mr. Charles Black House. Owing to the infirmities of age they did not come W. Eliot, 2nd for his notable contribution to the study of the same to Ellsworth during recent years. Both, however, were generous question. Friends of Woodlawn entirely apart from Mr. Pitman's magnifi- cent bequest. Mr. Pitman's intimate knowledge of the Black Summarizing a rather complex subject I may be allowed to family contributed much to our records and our traditions. As was point out that there are at least three views as to what the policy related in the Report of the Black House Committee for 1947-1948 of the Trustees ought to be. Some would say that when Acadia Mr. Pitman restored the front portico of the House after it had National Park was established the Trustees had completed their fallen into decay. Also we have in our files a remarkably accurate work and should have ceased to exist except in their function as description of the House which Mr. Pitman wrote with intellii- Trustees of the Black House. They should then have chosen a less gence, appreciation, and loving care. pretentious name and modified their organization to suit a modi- I turn now to a second important topic. Last autumn a fied purpose. This view does not take account of a fact, perhaps Special Committee on Policy was appointed to study and report on not generally known, that the Trustees still hold title to several the question of the future activity of the Trustees. Under the hundreds of acres which for technical reasons have not yet been able chairmanship of Mr. Edwin R. Smith, this committee, of which included in the Park; nor does it appreciate that there is still the other members were Mr. Benjamin L. Hadley and Mr. Charles some question whether the funds in the corporate account of the K. Savage, has studied the problems involved and reported its re- Trustees are sufficient to meet the expense that would be involved commendations to the Executive Committee. The Executive Com- in transferring our holdings on Mount Desert Island to the Gov- mittee now transmits these to the Trustees, with the suggestion ernment. In principle, however, according to this view, the policy that they be allowed to lie on the table long enough to permit of liquidation would still apply. Get rid of what you have left on their due consideration by all concerned. the Island, it would be said and confine your further efforts to Woodlawn. The recommendations are as follows: The opposite view was ably presented last August by Mr. Eliot (a) That the trustees take early steps to convey to the United in his "Challenge to the Hancock Trustees of Public Reservations." States of America for inclusion in Acadia National Park, all Mr. Eliot argued that the original purpose of the Trustees has by their remaining holdings on Mount Desert Island. no means been completely fulfilled. Accordingly, he asks for a (b) That the Trustees, as their general policy, confine future really active policy in line with the historic achievements of the land acquisitions to parcels abutting or within the present Trustees; a policy, that is, directed toward acquisition of further Park boundaries, or sufficiently near them to be of scenic areas on Mount Desert Island and in its vicinity, wherever these importance, when such acquisition has no substantial com- are important to the preservation and enhancement of scenic mercial or residential value; except that in the event an values. offer of donation of land is made to the Trustees, if such The report of the Special Committee steers a middle course. land meets the requirements of scenic importance and is of no substantial commercial or residential value, such a In effect it recommends that the Trustees liquidate their present holdings on the Island for transfer to the Park, not with the in- donation may be accepted if accompanied by sufficient funds to guarantee adequate administration and policing of tention, however, of then ceasing to exist, but with the idea of going the land so donated." on in a state of relative inactivity, except for the Black House, conscious, however, of their original aims, and maintaining a Bar- These recommendations of the Special Committee will reach kis-is-not-unwilling attitude toward eligible donations of scenic all the Trustees in the printed report of the present meeting. I areas in the Mount Desert region, or elsewhere, presumably, in wish to add that the special thanks of the Trustees are due and Hancock County. 27/7/2010 A ribute I o Samuel Atkins Eliot I I he Cambridge Historical Society TheCAMBRIDGEHISTORICALSOCIETY HOME EVENTS ONLINE RESOURCES PUBLICATIONS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE HOOPER-LEE-NICHOLS HOUSE GET INVOLVED GIVE ABOUT US A Tribute To Samuel Atkins Eliot Search Submitted by Ken2 on Tue, 02/11/2014 - 12:35pm Search this site: Search Author: Lois Lilley Howe Volume: 34 Donate Pages: 125-126 Years: 1951 We are funded 100% by individual donations and local corporate support. Please demonstrate your Copyright: 1954 commitment to Cambridge History and donate today! Publishers: Cambridge Historical Society Donate ATRIBUTE TO SAMUEL ATKINS ELIOT VISA BANK BY LOIS LILLEY HOWE 2 Read January 30, 1951 THE Reverend Samuel Atkins Eliot was born here in Cambridge in 1862. He was graduated from Newsletter Harvard College in 1884 and after three years of attendance at the Divinity School, received the degree of A.M. in 1889. He was granted an honorary S.T.D. in 1925. Our fall newsletter is on its After holding pastorates in Denver, Colorado, and in Brooklyn, New York, he returned to Boston way to you! in 1898 to be Secretary and later President of the American Unitarian Association. In this position he showed great initiative as well as exceptional financial and organizing ability. When he resigned after Thank you to our generous sponsors: twenty-seven years' service, he left the Association far stronger in financial resources and in the equipment of a fine new building and far more efficient in its service to the Unitarian churches than it Cambridge Savings Bank had even been before. In 1927 he returned with enthusiasm to the exercise of his chosen profession, that of the ministry. He became minister, later minister-emeritus of the Arlington Street Church in Boston. There he won Hammond Residential Meat Cripto the affectionate admiration of the members of what he termed the church he "had the honor to serve." In spite of his many associations with Boston, he will always be identified with Cambridge, the NINTH ART PRESSO city of his birth. Here he spent the greater part of his life. Here was the background of his extremely happy marriage, lasting more than sixty years and with seven children and many grandchildren and Check out our last newsletter great grandchildren to "rise up and call him blessed." (The 110th Anniversary Issue) He not only took his part in many vicgroups in Boston and in Cambridge, but he was a member of an enormous number of important national and international organizations. He was no superficial Contact Us! "joiner," satisfied with paying an annual fee, but an interested working member, traveling far and wide to gain and give information, help, and counsel wherever they were needed. The Cambridge Historical Society None of these organizations will miss him more personally than this Society, which he joined in its Hooper-Lee-Nichols House first year, 1905. In 1911 he became a member of the Council and in 1934, a Vice-President. 159 Brattle Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 617-547-4252 125 info@cambridgehistory.org Our members will always remember the papers he read, in which the interest of his Thank You Sponsors information was enhanced by his distinguished and dignified presence, his beautiful voice, and his subtle and delightful humor. Within recent years he had given us recollections of his boyhood and of Our Spring Benefit Sponsors the remarkable group of scholars gathered by his father into the Harvard faculty; he revealed his include: many connections with the Oregon territory in a paper on Nat Wyeth; he gave us a glimpse of his deep love of music in his talk on "Musical Memories of Cambridge"; and he showed his charming sense of fun in "Information Please," a quiz on Cambridge history at Mrs. Tudor's in 1939. Hammond Residential The Council, at whose meetings he was a constant attendant, will miss his wise and precious advice and his genial and entertaining companionship. To us he could never seem old. It does not seem possible that when he died on October 15, 1950, he was in his eighty-ninth year. Thus we shall always remember him - serene, urbane, dignified, yet forever youthful in spirit and friendliness. http://www.cambridgehistory.org/content/tribute-samuel-atkins-eliot 1/2 Va may for new page Champlain Society with added material my curwa for his draft SAE Book by SAE-1931 In the spring of 1880 by brother, Charles Eliot, who was then a sophomore in Harvard College, had R good idea, Hav- ing good ideas and working then out in practice became a habit of his, with results that have contributed to the welfaro and happiness of thousands of his fellor-countrymen. This time be invented what we now c&ll a "Field Expedition* of College Stu- dents. kany young men are doing such things nowadays but fifty years ago it was 8 novelty. Charles invited to his room in Graya Hall a well chosen group of ten or a Cozen classmates and fellow students and proposed to ther to club together and undertake to put into practice during the summer vacation some of the things they had been studying in class-room and laboratory. Why not select some particular region and put in the summer studying its geological formations, its flora and fauna, its birds and fishes, its trees and shrubs? There would be a happy combination of work and play; sea and land; tramping, sailing and reading. It hac- pened that my father and mother, President and Mrs. Eliot, were, planning to spend the summer in Durope, and so we boys ( by brother was twenty and I seventeen) had at our disposal the equipment which had been used by the family for several summers. This con- sisted of eight wall tents with the necessary furnishings, and a sloop yacht, the Sunshine, forty-three feet over all and with accomodations for four in the cabin and two in the forecastle. We boys had been accustoned to handling this boat and to the ways of camp life - in those days also something of a novelty. For eight summers we had camped out, often on Calf Island in upper From papar on Champlain Soe - used Un W.W. Vaushan's book prepared SHE m Oct1931 mdih 8. Arch 2 Frenchmans Bay, and we had cruised 7 the New England coast from-New London to Grand Kanan. Charles' proposal was enthusiastically received and the *Champlain Society" was organized. The members, with the excep- tion of two entering freshmen, were all Barvard undergraduates more or less interested in what was then called "Natural History. The choice of a region for our study was not difficult. Mt. Desert Island offered a detached field of about the right size and of ex- coptional interest alike from historic, scenic and scientific points of view. It was a splendic playground and was just coming into fame as a summer resort so that the problems of transporta- tion and supplies were not insoluble. Koreover, the camp equip- ment was in storage at the head of Frenchmans Bay. The Sunshine sailed from Boston on June 29th, $80, with Charles Eliot in command, four members of the Society, mostly land. lubbers, in the cabin, and Orrin Donnell, seaman, and William Breyant, steward, in the forecastle. They had been in the yacht the preceding summer and knew our ways. William was a cheery French Canadian hailing from Cape Breton. The last I knew of him he was mate of a vessel out of Arichat. Orrin was a boy from Waukeag Neck up Frenchmans Bay. In age he was between by brother and myself. He lived aboard the yacht when William came ashore to be camp cook. Orrin Donnell has been associated with our family ever since, more than fifty years. He mar. ried a daughter of John Gilley, settled on the place, has been a selectman of Ut. Desert and a good citizen and loyal friend. Charles did not know just where he would pitch the mdihs. Archives Camp but expected to find a suitable and central place somewhere betwoon Otter Creok and Seawall Point. So, after picking up the camp equipment at a house on Waukeag Neck he cruised along that shore and up into Somes Sound and anchored in what we now call Basgatt's Cove on the eastern shore. There, above the gravel bank was a bit of open meadow with a good spring at the back and just to the north the brook which is the outlet of Hadlock Pond fell with a little raterfall into the Cove. Mr. Asa Smalledge, who lived in the nearest house, not only was willing to let the campers occupy the field but also agreed to supply the camp with milk, eggs and chickens. So on July 5th, the Camp, known as Camp Pemetic, was pitched, the parlor tent in the centre facing the cliff of Dog Mountain, the five sleep- ing tents on either side and the kitchen and pontry tents at the back near the spring. The Campers came for different periods - some for all summer, some for a month or more. There were no trails or paths in those days, so exploration of the interior meant a lot of hard scrambling; but the yacht code frequent ex-- cursions into all the coves and corners of the island coast. Stores, meat and supplies had to be purchased at Southwest Har- bor and one also had to go there to find a doctor, a telegraph office and a steamboat connection. The summer produced a geolog- ical survey and map of the island, lists of the birds and fishes, the trees, flowers and marine invertebrates, and a meteorological record kept at five points on the island. The Champlain Society's Camp was probably the first appearance of summer visitors on the shores between the Sound and Schooner Head. A number of these pioneers, cost of whom attained mains. Archi in after years to positions of influence in their om communi- ties, remained attached to Ut. Desert. Edwnrd L. Rand contin- ued to come hither for many summers. From the original lists made by Rand and his aggociates was expanded the woll known "Flora of Ut. Desortn and Rand FBS our pioneer trail and map maker. His love of the island is commonorated on a tablet on the Jordans Pond-Seal Harbor Trail. Barry L. Rand has long been & cottager at Southwest Narbor. Goorge and William Dunbar in- terested their father, Professor Charles F. Tunbar, and he later bought the northern end of Bear Island and built the house which is now the summer home of his grandchildren. William C. Lane was a regular summer visitor, betaking himself in Inter years chiefly to Islesford. OR Charlos Eliot, when our parents returned from Europe, told his father that if he wanted to find a place for a permanent summer home he had better look along the shore between Somes Sound and Seal Harbor. That advice was taken. Prosident and Yrs. Fliot went to Northeast Harbor in October, 1880, got a horse and buggy at Doncon Kimball's and drove along the rough shore road, getting out from time to time to survey possible sites. The result of that visit was the choice and purchase of the ridge running from the sea a mile inland to the referred to anceotial" top of the Asticou Hill and the building of the house which, with the house built that same winter (1880-81) by Bishop Doane near the present Kimball house and the lodge built on the Asticou Road by Lir. J. A. Curtis, now a part of the house of Mr. R. B. Pohbins, were the first cottages in the region of Northeast Harbor. At that time Northeast Harbor was a very different mains Richire 5 place from the busy, modern tom of today. Everything was prim- itivo, There was no steamboat connection, no telephone, no electric light. Fater camo from individual rells. Bousehold- ers, including summer residents, cut and stored their own sup- plies of wood and 1co. You drove to Bar Harbor to mail your letter, to send a telegram or to get a doctor or a prescription. You sailed or rowed to Southwest Harbor for ment and grocerios save for what could be bought from an itinerant butcher who drove a cart along the road after he had killed a lamb or pig. Trans- portation about the island was costly by water, in row bonts and dorios and small sailing craft. There were only a few roads and thoy were rough, steep and narror. The "twenty-two mile drive" from Bar Harbor out by the Engle Lake Road and round by the Sound, Seal Harbor and Otter Creek, was an all day excursion. There were only & few houses along that route and no village center. At the head of Fortheast Harbor lived two families, the Savages and the Roberts. [The Roberts' house has disappear- ed. The Savage house is now the cottage across the road east of the Asticou Inn. On the east sice of the harbor Captain 9. C. shallucds Swith lived in a dwelling which is now part of Lrs. F. W. Pea- body's house and on the rest side of the harbor lived the Frazier faxily. Where is now the village street of Northeast Harbor there was not a house, just a narror ribbon road running through the thick woods and leading to Deacon Kimball's house and to the store which stood on the beach of the little cove at the entrance of the harbor. This store still had 8 trade with the coasters and fishermen who came in for shelter. I have seen mains. Aranya floots of fifty or sixty sail lying in Northeast Harbor. From the corner at Kimball's the almost untravelled road ran as far as Mr. Corson's house - opposite what is now the golf course. 'Along this road were the homes of Snalledges, Gilpatrics, Fen- nellys, Whi tmores and Manchesters. Mrs. Gilpatric kept the Post Office in the house still standing at the head of Gilpat- ric's Cove and Hr. Corson drove twico a reck to Somesville to fetch and carry the mail. / One lived on friendly and neighborly tarms with these good people, as, Nao glad to say, I continue to do. The family (1) Me John P. stayced at the Evereit Kennallis for several AUTHORIS and the future Mrs Eliot : recalls that: Talk with THE Syt21.51 out. may X. One summer day in 1882 ( the the camp at Postcon) an elegant horse and carriage drove in to the collage where the Hophmans were staying (next the old Schary) in nouthlast Hantor - and 1 hed in a closet. my aister beolie saw who was coming and was all anticipation Sam came in and asked "Where's fancy he had an enrand To do in Bar Harbo (a whole day's drive for the cy ?" ~ no answer - and started To explain to mother that 1 was our n the closet. 1 that was when he was in college and round tup) and wanted permission to take me. By that time 7 was eleven?)" Cailly Cillin WAR criticual through the 1887 hut after 1883 the Eliot trip report then vacalions at the 'Ancestial instead in Camp. mdins. Archives Sam was responsible fr the miteorological record. Runted sheets headed n Cham plain Sourty Meterological Department were prepared with columns for reending "date, time, Ther. Raim, wind der. + Veloc fog ana dep and weather, and these sheets were filled by obseviers- Camp Pemetic - Samuel a Elest N.E. Herbor Charleall Eler goose Cave Mra Livit Bar Island Pnyo Green mountain A.S. Brewer Schooner Head Hon. g.s. Hale. Areport with alaby itc gin the missing inks describes the methods used (from 1 Deno die Buchan and Sir Henry James) and the madequate instruments available to life ipins recaicher He venture. on a "general summer weather which the summer creitor at mr Decent may expect It gird," and hejer Unit "bot nummer's observations -- wedbo friend When limited foundation for future He prilicul ungel an investigation parts Nitte fuhts the island your Cenul ( I house Jogo, always the that Washington tain jerature was in one of the wavinist spots or the coost) and the surface which sea to writer 1 to determine) the hect in O: d. wind at go NN bathing : He particularly Iss alu 0.00 guage should he obtaired. Camp Pemetic on the Sound was used again in the summer a new site - Camp asticon - at the head 7 north East Harher - of 1881 for the activities of the Streety and during 1882 and 1883 was occupied.) inte Was It each all between cruses VII we Surcess i: with partic main 5. Archive Champlain Society Records. Camp Log with Photos 1881 Champlain Society Meeting Record and Yacht's Log 1881 Champlain Society Records Camp Asticou Log 1882 Champlain Society Records Camp Asticou Log 1882 Champlain Society Report of the Secretary for 1882-1883. Champlain Society Meeting g Records 1882-1883 Champlain Society Meeting Records 1883-1886 Champlain Society Records Camp Log 1884 Champlain Society Report of the Secretary for 1886-1887 Champlain Society Records 1886-1887 Log of the Sunshine 1881 Typed transcript of log of Sunshine 1871 Typed transcript of log of Sunshine 1880 Champlain Society Historical Notes Submitted by Charles Eliot Champlain Society Meteorological Reports submitted to Samuel A. Eliot Champlain Society Meteorological Reports submitted to Samuel A. Eliot 1879 Champlain Society Report of the Ichthylogical Department 1880 Historical Note No. VI Historical Note No. VII Historical Note No. VIII Report of Marine Invertebrate of Mount Desert, ME Charles W. Townsend 1880 Information about Samuel de Champlain Compiled/Written 1882 Charles Eliot's notes on the Early explorers of the New England Coast Mount Desert: A History by George E. Street Folder Marked, "Mt. Desert Book 2nd Edition." Folder marked, "Noted from S.A. Eliot's Lectures on " Folder marked, "Sundry Mt. Desert and Champlain Society Pictures and Photographs". Does not contain photographs. Large envelope containing copies of letters and papers of the Eliot Family Map of Mt. Desert Island, Maine Compiled by Edward L. Rand and Herbert Jaques. 1896. 6 Photocopies of articles and information related to the Hayseeders Ball. Mount Desert: 200 Years a supplement to the Bar Harbor Times Acadia National Park Celebrates 75 Years published by the Bar Harbor Times Photographs Champlain Society 1880 seated on fence. Orrin Donnell holding oar at left. Champlain Society members in the parlor tent Champlain Society Reunion 1882 - copy marked 1881 Champlain Society Visitors at Camp Pemetic on Somes Sound 1881- 2 copies Champlain Society group at Hadlock Pond Brook summer 1881 - 1 - 8x10.1-5x7 Champlain Society Camp on Somes Sound - 2-8x - 10. 1 - 5 X 7 and 1 modern print Champlain Society Group at Camp Pemetic 1880. Champlain Society Group at Camp Pemetic 1880 outside of tent. Orrin Donnel and young Michael Goriansky Visitors at Camp Pemetic on Somes Sound 1880 Material mauns I mailed to Theodore L. Eliot 12/30/74 Records of Chamblam Society - Blue Brok Size - Secretary's Report for 1882-83 - Edward Rand for 1886.87 Marine Invertenates - 1880 . Charleaw Townsend Ichthyolocial Rebt. 1880 w Edward L. Rand Geology of mr. Desunt- Samuel de Chamblain - 1882 Charles Elist Historical Notes - Nas I-VIII Charles Eliet Bound Volume 230 do Charles Elur's Notes on early exblorers the new ineland Coast - 1881.83 - with summary Explorers of the new England Coast- - SAE - 1898 Captain John Smith. sar. 1898 Champlain greater. SAE. 1931 with added material by cur 23 1952 Castine Lecture SaE, 1895 Notes for Champlain Lecture sae 1898 with list of 77 slides. a thick folder of "Misc. Notes used t unused - 2ndEdit on of "History of mr. Desurt with drafts source materials etc. Photoeraphs Chamalaur Soe. Camb Pennetic 1880-81 5 large + 1 medium mounted on heavy cardboard. all duplicates of copies in Camhudge Study . Mab of mr Desert 1896 - by Rand Rased on his Champlain are investigations t map of Hora. Copy of 1904 - first Edition "mr Desert attrituted to Street hir by SAE.