T. S. Eliot in St. Louis

Goodness, how I pored over his poetry at one time in my life!  Poet, essayist, and playwright T. S. Eliot was born in St. Louis on September 26, 1888. Where did he go to high school? LOL. The answer to that famous, judgmental local question, is that he attended Smith Academy, a downtown school that operated in 1879-1917. (Soon after it closed, community leaders established the St. Louis Country Day School, part of a movement to have schools in rural areas.) Eliot studied poetry at Smith Academy. I read somewhere else that there was a Prufrock Furniture Co. in St. Louis in around 1900, perhaps a source of that surname for his famous poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

Here is Smith Academy: https://www.builtstlouis.net/blewett01.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawFlfQJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHX7lu_m66sLW4k__N310lI2vLuw8s9cN85_47x5kskDWfKsEa0lTqbNEQw_aem_rCXdqFuXG-g2sltKnX9_Pg

Here is the Prufrock company: http://postcardparadise.blogspot.com/2010/01/prufrock-litton-st-louis-missouri.html