C.D. Eliot
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
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C.D. Eliot, County Assessor of Cascade County Montana was 
born in Auburn Maine July 2, 1855.

Andrew Eliot, the progenitor of the Eliots of New England, 
emigrated from England to this country in 1679 and settled 
at Beverly Massachusetts where he was a prominent citizen and 
where he died at the ripe old age of eighty years. He left a 
large family. The Eliot of New Hampshire, Maine and New York 
all sprang from him. C.D. Eliot's great-grandfather, John 
Eliot, was a soldier in the Revolution, fought in the battle 
of Bunker Hill and 
rendered the cause of independence his faithful service 
until the close of the war. He lived to be ninety one years 
of age. He had a family of twelve children, of whom John 
Eliot, our subject's father was the second. John Eliot was 
born in Nottingham Massachusetts October 5, 1801, was 
educated at Westbrook, and at the troy Theological
Seminary, New York and married Arabella Berry, a native 
of Lisbon Maine by whom he had five children, three of 
whom are living. His father being a member of the 
Congregational Church he was reared in that faith and 
educated for the ministry. During the early part of his 
life he was a missionary in western New York and the last 
twenty years of his life were spent as pastor of the 
Rumford Point Congregational Church in Maine. He died in 
1879 in the seventy-eighth year of his age. His wife died 
in 1889, at the age of sixty-six.

Charles Dwight Eliot, the third born in his father's 
family, was reared in his native state and was educated 
at Kent's Hill Wesleyan Seminary. In 1874 after leaving 
college he went to Boston and from that time until 1884 he 
was bookkeeper for the Barstow Stove Company. In 1884 he 
came to Belt Montana and engaged in the sheep business 
which he has since successfully carried on. Since coming 
to this state he has from time to time made investments 
in real estate and sheep.

Like his father and grandfather before him, Mr. Eliot is a 
member of the Congregational Church which he joined at 
Rumford Point and where his membership still remained. 
Recently he has become identified with the Sons of the 
Revolution in Cascade County. 


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