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 EASTMAN

EASTON

Maine and New Hami>slure, 1861-63. On Jan. It), li!>6;l he was apixjinted military governor of the Cincinnati district, Ohio, and served as such until Jan. 20, 1864. He was retired from active service, Dec. 3, 1863, for disability. In 1864 he was in command of the government camp at Ehnira. N.Y., and in 186.5 of that at Fort Mifflin, Pa. lie wjuj a member of the examination board, 18«3.'>-(?6, and in conunand of the Harrod.sburg, Ky., military asylum from Dec. 16, 1866, to Sep- tember. 1867, when lie was assigned to duty in the interior dejKirtment. He was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general, U.S.A., Aug. 9, 1866, for meritorious services during the civil war. He was married in 1835 to Mary Henderson, who became a well-known author. He was elected a member of the National academy of design in 1838 and published Treatise on Topo- graphical Dratrinfj (1837). His son. Robert Lang- don (1840-6.5), was graduated at West Point,

1861, served in the army of the Potomac xmtil

1862, when he was prostrated by illness, served at the U.S. military academy as professor of drawing and of ethics. 186:3-64, and died in Wash- ington, D.C., Nov. 9, 186.5. General Eastman died in Wasliington, D.C., Aug. 31, 1875.

EASTMAN, William Reed, librarian, was bom in New York city, Oct. 19, 1835; son of Oman and Mary (Reed) Eastman; grandson of John Eastman; and a descendant of Roger East- man. He was graduated from Yale in 1854 and from the Union theological seminary. New Y'ork, 1862. He was ordained a Presliyterian minister, Oct. 12, 1802, and was chaplain of the 72d regi- ment of New Y'ork volunteers, 186.3-64. He was pastor of a Congregational church at Grantville, 3Iass., 1864-65; at Plantsville, Conn., 186.5-76, at Suffield, Conn, 1876-79, at South Framingham, Ma.ss., 1879-88, and agent of Howard university, Washington, D.C., 1888-90. In 1892 he became connected with the New Y'ork state library at Albany as assistant librarian and as inspector of public libraries under direction of the board of regents of the University of the state of New Y'ork.

EASTON, John, governor of Rhode Island, was Ixjrn in Wales in 1617; son of Gov, Nicholas Easton. He was brought to America in 16.34 and was well educated. He was attorney-general of the united governments of Portsmouth and Newport, 16.5.3-54, 16.50-.57. and 1660-63. Under the royal charter he held the same office, 1664-70, and the years 1672, 1673 and 1674. He was deputy governor of Rhode Island from May, 1674, to April, 1676, and governor, 1690-95, as successor to Gov. Henry Bull, who resigned on account of infirmities of age. He wrote The Cnusen xrhich led to Philip'x Indifin War (18.58). He died in Newi)ort. R.I., Dec. 12, 1705.

EASTON, Langdon Cheves, soldier, was born in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 10, 1814. He was gradu- ated at the U.S. military academy in 1838; was promoted 1st lieutenant of the 6th U.S. infantry, Julj' 23^ 18b9; was assistant quartermaster with the rank of captain, 1847-64; quartermaster with the rank of colonel, 1864-72, and assistant quar- termaster-general with the rank of colonel, 1872-81. His active service included the Florida, Mexican and civil wars. He was chief quarter- master of the army of the Cumberland, 1863-64; of General Sherman's army, 1864-65; of Missis- sippi and Mi.ssouri, 186.5-72, and assistant quarter- master-general in Wasliington, 1872-81. He was brevetted lieutenant -colonel, colonel and briga- dier-general for distinguished and important services in the quartermaster's department in the campaign terminating in the capture of Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 17, 1864, and major-general March 13, 1865. He was retired, Jan. 24, 1881, and died in New Y'ork city, April 29, 1884.
 * ' for meritorious services during the war,"

EASTON, Morton William, philologist, was born in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 18, 1841; son of Oliver Hastings and Eraeline Maria (Brace) Easton; grandson of Wait and Phoebe (Hastings) Easton and of Manning and Lucj' (Webster) Brace; and a descendant of Joseph Easton, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn. He was graduated at Y'ale in arts in 1863 and at Columbia in medicine in 1867, He studied for a time at the University of Vienna and received the degree of Ph.D. from Y'ale in 1872. He then went to Knoxville, Term., where he was at first professor of ancient languages and afterward professor of comparative philology and modern languages in the East Tennessee university. In 1883 he was elected professor of comparative philology in the University of Pennsylvania, serving in that capa- city, 1883-92, and as adjunct professor of Greek, 1887-92. In 1892 lie was made professor of Eng- lish and of comparative philology in that institu- tion. He is the author of articles in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Transactions of the American Philolorfical Association, the Ameri- can Journal of Philology and in the publications of the Modern Language as.sociation.

EASTON, Nicholas, governor of Rhode Island, was born in Wales in 1.593. He was a tanner by trade and on May 14, 1634, landed in New Eng- land with his two sons, Peter and John. He resided in Ipswich, Mass., for some months and in the spring of 1635 began the settlement of Agawam, afterward Newlmry, Mass. In 1638 he Imilt the first Englisli hou.se in Hampton. In that year he removed to Rhode Island and in 16.39. with his sons, h^ built the first hou.se in New]xi!-t. R.I. He was elected to several local offices. In 1647 the four towns of Rhode Island were united