Editing Charles William Eliot (section)

==Personal life==
On October 27, 1858, Eliot married Ellen Derby Peabody of Salem Massachusetts (1836–1869) in Boston at [[King's Chapel]]. Ellen was the daughter of [[Ephraim Peabody]] (1807-1856) and Mary Jane Derby (1807-1892), great-great-granddaughter of [[Elias Hasket Derby]] (1739-1799), and the sister of architect [[Robert Swain Peabody]].<ref name=roths>[https://mdihistory.org/wp-content/uploads/1999-Fred-Savage_ocr.pdf ''Fred Savage, The Cottage Builder''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109194544/https://mdihistory.org/wp-content/uploads/1999-Fred-Savage_ocr.pdf |date=November 9, 2021 }} – Jaylene B. Roths, p.40</ref> They had four sons, one of whom, [[Charles Eliot (landscape architect)|Charles Eliot]] (November 1, 1859 – March 25, 1897) became an important [[landscape architect]], responsible for Boston's public park system. He married Mary Yale Pitkin, granddaughter of Rev. [[Cyrus Yale]], members of the [[Yale (surname)|Yale family]] of [[Yale|Yale University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/yalegenealogyhis00yale/page/468/mode/2up?view=theater|title=Yale genealogy and history of Wales. The British kings and princes. Life of Owen Glyndwr. Biographies of Governor Elihu Yale|date=1908|publisher=Milburn and Scott company|website=Archive.org|pages=312–313-468-469|author=Rodney Horace Yale}}</ref> Another son, [[Samuel A. Eliot (minister)|Samuel Atkins Eliot II]] (August 24, 1862 – October 15, 1950) became a [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] minister who was the longest-serving president of the [[American Unitarian Association]] (1900–1927) and was the first president granted executive authority of that organization.
[[File:Blueberry Ledge 1884 – Peabody and Stearns.jpg|thumb|236x236px|"Blueberry Ledge" – Eliot's cottage in Northeast Harbor, designed by [[Peabody & Stearns]]]]
The [[Nobel Prize]]-winning poet [[T.S. Eliot]] was a cousin and attended Harvard from 1906 through 1909, completing his elective undergraduate courses in three instead of the normal four years, which were the last three years of Charles' presidency.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bush|first=Ronald|title=T. S. Eliot's Life and Career|url=http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/life.htm|publisher=Modern American Poetry|access-date=March 14, 2012|archive-date=June 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627110130/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/life.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

After Ellen Derby Peabody died at the age of 33 of [[tuberculosis]], Eliot married a second wife in 1877, Grace Mellen Hopkinson (1846–1924). This second marriage did not produce any children. Grace was a close relative of Frances Stone Hopkinson, wife of Samuel Atkins Eliot II, Charles's son.

Eliot retired in 1909, having served 40 years as president, the longest term in the university's history, and was honored as Harvard's first president emeritus. He lived another 17 years, dying in [[Northeast Harbor, Maine]], in 1926, and was interred in [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].