Abigail Adams Eliot

Abigail Adams Eliot
Born(1892-10-09)October 9, 1892
Dorchester, Boston, U.S.
DiedOctober 29, 1992(1992-10-29) (aged 100)
Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materRadcliffe College
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Known forEarly childhood education
PartnerAnna E. Holman

Abigail Adams Eliot (October 9, 1892 – October 29, 1992) was an American educator and a leading authority on early childhood education. She was a founding member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, supervised the Federal Emergency Relief Administration's nursery school program in New England in the 1930s, and co-founded the Eliot Community Mental Health Center in Concord, Massachusetts. The Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study at Tufts University is named for Eliot and her colleague, Elizabeth W. Pearson.

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