He was a distinguished student of the classics and began his academic career at Illinois College in Jacksonville before joining the faculty at Washington University as an instructor in Latin and Greek in 1907. Ten years later he was named Collier Professor of Greek and, after briefly resigning in 1918 to become assistant librarian of […]

He began his professional career as a general practice lawyer in Kansas City before initiating a 30-year career in public life, serving as first assistant city counselor in Kansas City and continuing on to become prosecuting attorney for Jackson County, attorney general of Missouri and, in 1909 at age 36, governor of Missouri. A progressive […]

After a brief stint at the Academy of Olivet College in Michigan, he transferred to Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, where he developed a love for the classics and began a career that led him to become one of the nation’s most distinguished scholars of Greek. A gifted educator and noted orator, upon graduation from […]

After graduating from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) in 1887 with a degree in classics, he accepted a tutorship at the college and taught Greek and Latin while pursuing graduate studies in history and economics. He left the college after one year to become superintendent of the Spartanburg, South Carolina, city […]

He was born in Maine in 1847 and graduated from West Point in 1870 as a second lieutenant in the Army. After his military service he began a career as a civil engineer and served for four years as professor of mechanical engineering at Maine State College. He also held faculty positions at Imperial University […]

His great-grandfather was the minister in Boston’s Old North Church who was once offered the presidency of Harvard. His father was a merchant and ship owner who later became chief examiner of the Post Office in Washington, D.C. Eliot entered Harvard Divinity School in 1831 where he developed his religious belief in a form of […]

Early in life he exhibited a knack for mathematics and all things mechanical, and he attended Yale University, where his father wished for him to study for a career in business. Entering Yale at age 16, he graduated in 1840 with high honors and soon after began his scholarly career by assisting a professor at […]

Nevertheless, he was able to prepare himself for college and entered Yale University in 1836. There he became known for his superior scholarship, independence of character, and originality of thought and expression. He took prizes in mathematics and classics, served as editor of Yale’s famous literary magazine, and graduated sixth in a class of 100. […]