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EATON, Benjamin Harrison, governor of
Colorado, wiis buiu m L"o.shi.K-lou county. Ohio,
Dec. 15, l»ya, sou ot Levi Eiitoii. lie wa.s gnidu-
ated from West Bethford aciideuiy in 1^')~' and
tauglit school until 1^54 when he removed to
Louisa county. Iowa. He engaged in mining in
Colorado. 15<")'J-01 ; resided in New Mexico, 18(51-
64, anil in l!S04 removed to Oreeley, Col., where
he Itecame one of the most pro-sperous fanners in
the state, winning his success chielly through a
system of irrig-ation. He served in both branches
of the st;tte legislature and was elected governor
of Colorado in November, 1854, by a majority oi
3132 votes over Alva Adams, Democrat, serving,
lSS,)-8t>.
EATON, Daniel Cady, botanist, was born in Fort tiratiot, Midi., Sept. 1~. 1834; son of Gen. Amos beebe and Elizabeth (Selden) Eaton and grand-son of Amos and Sally (Cady) Eaton. He was graduate 1 at Yale in 1857 and took a po-st- graduate course in botany at Harvard. In 18()4 he accepted the chair of botany at Yale which had been made for him, and which he filled during the rest of his life. He received the de- gree of S.B. from Harvard and that of M.A. from Yale in 1860. He prepared the part on ferns in Chapman's Flora of the Hoittlicni :'>tates (1860); and in irray's Manual (1867), published The Fauna of Xorth Anvrica (1879-80) ; and left an unpublished work on Eaton genealog}*. He also contributed numerous papers and reviews to the American Journal of Science, the Proceedings of the Ameri- can academy of arts and sciences, and other scientific i>eriodicals. He died in New Haven, Conn., June 2JJ, 1895.
EATON, Daniel Cady, educator, was born in John.stown, N.Y., June 16, 1837; sou of Daniel G. and Harriet E. (Cady) Eaton; grandson of Amos Eaton, botanist; nephew of Gen. xVmos Beebe Eaton, U.S.A.; great-grandson of Capt. Abel Elaton and of Col. James Livingston of the Revo- lutionary war; and a descendant of John Eaton of Dover, England, who came to America and settled in Dedham, Mass.. alx»ut 1636. He was graduateil at Yale in 1860 and on special exami- nation before the supreme court at Albany, N.Y^., was admitted to the Ikw in 1861. He studied at Gottingen gymna.sium in 1854, at tlie University of Berlin in 1867-68, and was admitted to the fecole des beaux arts, Paris, and to the atelier of G6rome in 1869. He was professor of the hi.story and criticism of art in Yale college, 1869-71, and of the hi.storj' of art, 1871-76. Among his publi- cations are: Intrniluction to the Study of Greek SruJpture (1879) ; The Stnrpj of the Artu of Design in Atupriran Colleges (1882); Handbook of Greek and^ Jioman Sculpture (3d ed.. 1886); Yale College in 1S90 (1800); The Laics of Pensions (1893) ; Consti- tutional Coinage (1896).
EATON, Dorman Bridgman, lawyer, was
born at llanlwick, Vt., Juiit- Jr, 1823; son of
Nathaniel and Ruth (Bridgman) Eaton. He was
graduated from the University of Vermont in
1848, and from the Harvard law school in 1850,
receiving the highest prize for a legal essay. He
prepared a supplement to Chipmans work on
contracts. In 1850 and 1851 he assisted Judge
William Kent in editing the seventh edition of
Kent's commentaries, and in 1851 became a part-
ner of Judge Kent in the practice of law. In
1866 he passed several montlis in Europe, study-
ing the sanitary laws and administration of
England. He drafted the law under which the
Metropolitan board of health for New Y'ork and
Brooklyn was organized in 1866, and in 1867
drafted the " Sanitary Code " of ordinances for
that body, of which he was the first coun.sel. He
was elected a member of the Union league club
in 1862, and was at one time one of its vice-presi-
dents. He was for several years chairman of its
committee on political reform. Upon the resig-
nation of George William Curtis in 1873 he was
appointed a member of the Civil service commis-
sion and was elected chairman of that body,
continuing in that position under Presidents
Grant, Haj'es, Garfield and Arthur. The first
Civil service reform association was formed in
1877 at Mr. Eaton's house. He visited Europe in
1875 and 1877 and made a careful study of the
civil service of England. He drafted the bill
which became the Civil service law of 1883,
under which the National civil serv'ice commission
was organized. He was a member of the first
Civil service commission appointed under this
law b}- President Arthur, in March, 1883. Hav-
ing resigned this office in November, 1885, he
was reappointed a commissioner by President
Cleveland, and served until April, 1886, when he
again resigned. He delivered the annual address
before the Y'ale law school at its 58th anniversary
in 1882. He received the degree of LL.D. from
the University of Vermont in 1874. He wrote :
Chipman on Contracts Payable in Specific Articles
(1852) ; Civil Service in Great Britain (1880) : The
Independent Movement i)i Xew York {\fi^O)\ The
Government 3Iiinicipalitics (\Hdd). and manj' pam-
phlets. He died in New York city, Dec. 23, 1899.
EATON, Edward Dwight, educator, was born at Lancaster. Wis., Jan. 12, 1851; son of Samuel W. and Catharine (Demarest) Eaton. He was graduated at Beloit college in 1872, and at Y^ile divinity school in 1875. He .studied for a year at Leipzig and Heidelberg, Germany, and in 1876 returned to America and entered tlie Congrega- tional ministPk-. He was pastor at Newton. Iowa, 1876-79. and at Oak Park. III.. 1880-86. In June, 1886. he was elected president of Beloit college, Onrinir his administration the college more than
