Jared Eliot

Jared Eliot
Born7 November 1685 Edit this on Wikidata
Died22 April 1763 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 77)
Alma mater
OccupationMinister Edit this on Wikidata
Parent(s)
  • Rev. Joseph Eliot Edit this on Wikidata
  • Mary Eliot Edit this on Wikidata

Jared Eliot (November 7, 1685—April 22, 1763)[1] was an American colonial scientist, minister, and physician.[2] He was born in Guilford, Connecticut, but spent most of his life from 1707 until his death in Killingsworth, now called Clinton, Connecticut. He was botonist and agronomist who wrote articles on agriculture and animal husbandry as well as a geologist who wrote on the mineral qualities of Connecticut lands, winning recognition in England, where he was given a gold metal by the Royal Society of Arts and unanimously elected a member of the Royal Society.[3] He was considered "the first physician of his day in Connecticut and was the last clerical physician of eminence probably in New England."[4] He was a Yale Trustee from September 1730 until his death, the first Yale graduate to hold that office.[3]

  1. ^ Emerson, Wilimena Hannah Eliot; Eliot, Ellsworth; Eliot, George Edwin; Eliot, William Horace (1905). Genealogy of the descendants of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. [New Haven, Conn. : Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor.
  2. ^ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1885). Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: With Annals of the College History. United States: New York: Henry Holt. pp. 52–56.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ a b Dexter, 54.
  4. ^ Dexter, p. 54.