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Eliot, Samuel Aitkins

manufacturer, congressman, author, was born March 5, 1798, in Boston, Mass. He was mayor of Boston from 1837 to 1839; and a representative and senator in the legislature for three or four years. He was a representative in congress from 1850 to 1851; and was also treasurer of Harvard college for eleven years. He published Observations on the Bible for the Use of Young Persons; and Sketch of the History of Harvard College. He died Jan. 29, 1862, in Cambridge, Mass.