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^STON HERALD 



:EI,10T— At Northeast Harbor, Maine; Julj 

 ■ JS. Graco Hopkinsor Eliot, in hpr 78tli 

 r year, wife of Charles W. Kllot ot Cam- 

 bridge. Service at Eliofs Cottage 

 I Northeiast Harbor. .July 20. at ■» P 



MRS.C.W.EUOT 

 DIES IN MAINE 



Wife of Noted Educator Was 

 long Invalid 



[' I Mrs. Charles W. EUat, wife of the 

 president-emeritus of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, died yesterday at Northeast 

 Harbor, Me. She was the second 

 wife of the noted educator. Before 

 her marriagre, which took place Oct. 

 8, 1877, she was Grace Mellen Hop- 

 kinson of Cambridge. Mrs. Eliot 

 Vtts 78 years old. 



. She was the younger daughter of 

 Jodse Thomas Hopklnion, who was the 

 ,tnt scholar in the class of 1S30, and 

 Who became first a Judge of the court 

 of common pleas and then president of 

 (he Boston and Worcester Railroad 

 tympany. 



The residence In Northeast Harbor 

 le on Mount Desert Island, and has been 

 the Bitot summer place for many years. 

 Mrs. Eliot had for many years been an 

 invalid, and for that reason rarely aip- 

 yeared In connection with the many 

 •vtnts In which her husband was so 

 prominent. 



Frealdet-emerltus Ellot Was with 

 her when the end came. The funeral 

 win be held at Northeast Harb9r on 

 ■unday at 1 P. M. 



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' tantered at the Post OHice, Boston, Uaa:, 

 <u Second Cloaa Mail Matter) 



SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1924 



WIFE OF DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT 



Before Her Marriage to the President 

 Emeritus of Harvard She Was Grace 

 Mellen Hopkinson, and Her Death Oc- 

 curred at Northeast Harbor, Me. 



Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, wife ot the 

 president emeritus of Harvard, whose 

 death at Northeast Harbor, Me.,, was an- 

 Kounced in the Transcript yesterday, had i 

 for some time been a sufferer from heart 

 disease and had required constant care ' 

 and attention. Mrs. Eliot accompanied 

 her husband on his travels ; went with i 

 him several times to Europe and went 

 around the world with him fourteen years 

 ago. "While on that trip it was largely 

 due to her care; that he survived a surgl- 

 cal^operatjon for appendicitis in Ceylon. 



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(Entered at the Pout Of^ce, Sosion, Meat.:, 

 as Second Clcss Mail Matter.) 



FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1924 



ELIOT — At Norlhea.st Harbor. Maine, July 18'. 

 Grace Hopkinson Eliot, in her 78th year, wife 

 of Charles W. Eliot of CambrldBe. Service 

 at Eliot's cottage, Northeast Harbor. July 20, 



WIFE OF PRES. EMERITUS 



CHARLES W. ELIOT DEAD 



SHE SUCCUMBS AT NORTHEAST 

 HARBOR, ME., WHERE THE FAMILY 

 HAD GONE FOLLOWING HARVARD 

 COMMENCEMENT 



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•s was received this afternoon ot 

 the death at Xortheast Harbor, Me., of 

 Mrs. Grace Mellen Hopkinson Eliot, wife 

 of Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of 

 Harvard University. Mrs. Eliot was in 

 her seventy-elg-hth year and she and Br. 

 Eliot went immediately following Mie Har- 

 vard commencement, to Northeast HarborS 

 where they long had a summer home. Mrs. 

 Eliot was a native ot Cambridge and was 

 marrJed to Dr. Eliot on Oct. 30, 1877, 

 eight years after the deatli of his first 

 wife. 



Mrs. Ellot was the younger dau^iter 

 of the late Judge Thomas Hopkinson who 

 was the first scholar In the Harvard class 

 of 1830, and for some time judge of the 

 Court of Common Pleas. 



Mrs. Ellot, before her marriage, was 

 Grace Mellen Hopkinson of Cambridge, 

 daughter of Judge Hopkinson of the Court 

 of Common Pleas and later president of 

 the Boston & Albany Railroad. She was 

 the youngest of four children, all of whom 

 she survived. She was nearly seventy- 

 eight years old. Mrs. Eliot was especially 

 fond of singing and before her marriage 

 to Dr. Ellot, Oct. 30, 1877, she sang in 

 many concerts and in church choirs in an 

 amateur way. Probably her happiest days 

 were spent at the summer home in North- 

 east Harbor, Me., where she and Dr. Eliot 

 had gone for many years. 



The funeral services will be held at the 

 Eliot cottage at Northeast Harbor Sunday 

 afternoon. Rev. Francis G. Peabody. 

 D. D., professor emeritus at Harvard, will 

 officiate. Burial Is to be in Mt. Auburn 

 cemetery at Cambridge. 



THE BOSTON HERALD ! 



" MONDAYTTiTlY 21, 1924~ | 



Mrs. Charles W. Eliot 



BAR HARBOR, Me., July 20 

 —Funeral services for Mrs. Charles W. 

 Eliot, wife of the president-eroerltus 

 of Harvard University, who died Fri- 

 day, were held this afternoon at th« 

 Eliot summer home at Northeast Har- 

 bor The Rev. Dr. Francis G. Peabody 

 of Cambridge, Mass., a life-long friend, 

 officiated. ■ 



Dr. Ellot bore the strain well. He 

 will not, however, accompany the body 

 to Mount Auburn tomorrow' for burial 

 services, but will spend the remainder 

 of the summer in Northeast Harbor. 



The burial service will be read by 

 the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. EKot of Cam- 

 bridge, a son. Ushers at today's serv- 

 ices were Dr. F. W. Peabody, J. D. 

 Greene, Theodore Eliot, William G. Rice 

 and Roger Pierce. 



