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Abigail Adams Eliot was born in Dorchester and was the third child of Rev. and Mrs. Christopher Rhodes Eliot. Her father was the minister of the Meeting House Hill Church in Boston for thirteen years.
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Eliot went into social work and while serving as a home visitor in Boston she noticed too many children too young to attened school wandering the streets alone that concerned her.
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-Elizebeth Pearson asked her if she would like to direct a nursery school that the Women's Education association planned to open.
-6 months later she went to study at the rachel mcmillan nursery school and traing center.
- Eliot became concerned about Margaret McMillian's lack of contact with parents. -
Eliot took over a former nursery in Roxbury where many lower income diverse families lived. She then turned it into the ruggles street nursery school and training center. Eliot transformed surroundings, shortened hours, stopped admitting infants, and established relationships with the church, medical, dental, and other child welfare associations.
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1926- known as the leader in the "national Association for nursery schools.
1929- The forerunner of the National Association for Nursery Education.
present day- now known as the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) -
Eliot was among the first women to be awarded a doctorate
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Eliot resigned from the nursery training center.
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Eliot remained unmarried and had a long productive life. She died in concord of a heart attack at the age of 100.
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Unitarian Universalist History & Heritiage society, 1999-2015
President and fellows of Harvard college, 2015
Eric Pace, 1992
Tufts University, 2014
Publisher not identified, 2014
