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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 184 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tates (1860); and in irray's Manual (1867), published The Fauna of Xorth Anvrica (1879-80) ; and left an unpublished work on Eaton genealog}*.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