Charles Eliot Norton
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Charles Eliot Norton was an American author, social critic, and Harvard professor of art based in New England. He was a progressive social reformer and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporari
Charles Eliot Norton, 1903
Grave of Charles Eliot Norton
Charles William Eliot
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Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was president of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909, the longest term of any Harvard president. A member of the prominent Eliot family of Boston, h
Charles Eliot Norton
…a Unitarian theologian, and Dexter professor of sacred literature at Harvard; his mother was Catherine Eliot, a daughter of the merchant Samuel Eliot. Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard, was his cousin. Norton graduated from Harvard in 1846, where he was a member of the Hasty Pudding, and started in business with…
Eliot, c. 1904
Eliot around the time of his arrival at MIT
With Booker Washington and other dignitaries
"Blueberry Ledge" – Eliot's cottage in Northeast Harbor, designed by Peabody & Stearns