Eliot (Charles W. Jr.) is born in Cambridge.

The son of the Harvard president Charles and Ellen(Peabody) Eliot, Charles Eliot Jr. graduates from Harvard College, trains under Frederick Law Olmsted, and opens his own office on Park Street in 1886. He becomes one of the most noted landscape architects and critics in the U.S. and once maintains, “For crowded populations to live in health and happiness, they must have space for air, for light, for exercise, for rest, and for the enjoyment of the peaceful harmony of nature which, because of the noisy ugliness of the town, is so refreshing to the tired souls of the townspeople.” Eliot proposes creation of a Boston metropolitan park system in 1892.* He dies in Boston on March 25, 1897.