August Eloot was born on 30 September 1874, in Hillegem, East Flanders, Belgium. He died on 8 June 1887, in his hometown, at the age of 12.
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English and Scottish: variant of Elliott .
History: Andrew Eliot, a shoemaker of East Coker, Somerset, England, who emigrated to Boston, MA, in 1670, was the founder of a distinguished American family which included the poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), who was born in St. Louis, MO. The earliest Eliot recorded in North America was John Eliot (1604–90), a Puritan missionary known as the ‘Indian Apostle’, who was born in Hertfordshire and sailed to Boston in 1631. He later settled in Roxbury, MA.
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