 William Greenleaf Eliot co-founded Washington University in St. Louis in 1853, and Thomas H. Eliot was chancellor of that institution from 1962 to 1971.William Greenleaf Eliot's son Thomas Lamb Eliot went further west and was a seminal figure in the founding of Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1911.The poet T. S. Eliot moved to England and his ashes were interred in East Coker, England.