Eleanor Gooderham Acheson
(1870–1958)
BIRTH
December 14, 1870
PLACE
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NAME
Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham
DEATH
July 25, 1958
PLACE
Washington, D.C.
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Edward Campion Acheson
(1858–1934)
CHILDREN
Dean Acheson
(1893-1971)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham Acheson was the mother of U.S. secretary of state Dean Acheson. She came from a Canadian family and married the Episcopal clergyman Edward Campion Acheson.
EARLY LIFE
Eleanor Gooderham Acheson led the Connecticut Episcopal diocese's Woman's Auxiliary for many years and helped host visitors to the bishop's house. The Connecticut bishop remembered her diocesan work in his 1959 address.
CAREER
DEATH
Eleanor Gooderham Acheson died on July 25, 1958. A family genealogy gives Washington, D.C., as the place of death and reports congestive and atherosclerotic heart disease; it records burial at Pine Grove Cemetery in Middletown.
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