... at age 39. Eliot was born into a middle class family originally from New England. T.S. Eliot's grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot had moved to St. Louis, Missouri in order to establish a Unitarian Church there. His father Henry Ware Eliot (1843-1919) was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis; his mother Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843-1929 ... literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-catholic in religion." Death and Honors For many years Eliot had suffered from lung-related health problems caused by heavy smoking. He ...

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