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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samuel Eliot Morison</span> American historian and military officer (1887–1976)

Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). In 1942, he was commissioned to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. Morison wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager.

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Morison is a surname found in the English-speaking world. It is a variant form of Morrison. It was one of the original ways of spelling the name of the Clan Morrison, before Morrison with two r's became popular.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samuel Eliot (historian)</span> American historian

Samuel Eliot was an American historian, educator, and statesman of Boston, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samuel A. Eliot (minister)</span> American Unitarian minister (1862–1950)

Samuel Atkins Eliot II was an American Unitarian minister. In 1898 the American Unitarian Association elected him secretary but in 1900 the position was redesignated as president and Eliot served in that office from inception to 1927, significantly expanding the association's activities and consolidating denominational power in its administration.

Samuel Atkins Eliot Jr. was an American author, born in Denver, Colorado and educated at Harvard University. He was the son of Samuel Atkins Eliot, a prominent Unitarian clergyman, and the grandson of Charles W. Eliot, a president of Harvard University. Samuel Eliot Jr. wrote books on the theatre and made many translations from the German playwright Frank Wedekind. His works include Little Theatre Classics (four volumes, ; Erdgeist ; Pandora's Box ; and Tragedies of Sex.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samuel Atkins Eliot (politician)</span> American politician

Samuel Atkins Eliot was a member of the notable Eliot family of Boston, Massachusetts, who served in political positions at the local, state and national levels.

The Eliot family is the American branch of one of several British families to hold this surname. This branch is based in Boston but originated in East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset. It is one of the Boston Brahmins, a bourgeois family whose ancestors had become wealthy and held sway over the American education system. All are the descendants of two men named Andrew Eliot, father and son, who emigrated from East Coker to Beverly, Massachusetts between 1668 and 1670. The elder Andrew served the town and colony in a number of positions and in 1692 was chosen as a juror in the Salem witch trials. His son Andrew married Mercy Shattuck in 1680 in Beverly and died by drowning after falling off a ship.

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Elliot is a personal name which can serve as either a surname or a given name. Although the given name has historically been given to males, females have increasingly been given the name as well in the United States.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samuel Eliot (banker)</span>

Samuel Eliot was an American banker and businessman from the prominent Eliot family of Boston. He served as President of Massachusetts Bank, and was a highly successful Boston merchant, owning and operating what was then the precursor to 19th- and 20th-century style department stores. At the time of his death, he had amassed one of the largest fortunes in Boston.

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Sturgis is a surname of Norman origin, shortened form of FitzTurgis "son of" "Turgis" from the Old Norse Þórgísl or Old Danish Thorgisl. It corresponds to the Nordic patronymic Þórgilsson.

Alexander Henry Stevens was an American banker.

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