Eliot

JOHN, (čl'yöt,) an English mi ionary, E. 1604, and educated at Cambridge University. Emigrating to America in 1631, he in that country became pastor of the church at Roxbury, Ma ., and afterward became known as the Apostle of the Indians, from his mi ionary labors among the aborigines, and from his having translated the Bible into the Indian tongue. D. 1690. El'iot, SIR JOHN, an English statesman, B. of an ancient Cornish family in 1590. In 1623 he became a chief of the popular party in the House of Commons, and acquired great distinction as an orator, and as the chief impeach er of the Duke of Bucking ham, 1626. E., in the struggle for supremacy between Charles I. and the Parliament, espoused the cause of the latter, and suffered therefor. D. in the Tower of London, 1632. El'iot, SAMUEL, an American historian, B. in Boston, 1821, graduated at Harvard College, in 1839. His principal works are The Liberty of Rome, 1853; The Early Christians, 1858; and A Manual of United States History, 1856. He was appointed president of Trinity College, Hartford, in 1860. [s. 325]