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EATON, John, educator, was born in Sutton. N.H.. Dec. "), lS-29; son of John and Janet Collins (.Vndrews)?:;iton. He was graduated at Dart- mouth in isr>4; was u teacher at Cleveland. Ohio. lS.")|-."»r.; and superintendent of schools, Toledo, l,s.")tw»9. lie studied at Andover theological seminary, 1859-61; was ordained, and became ciiaplain of the 27th Ohio volun- teers in 1861. During his military service he was twice prison- /y- M, er, served as brigade

sanitary inspector, and in November, 1862, was appointed by General Grant su- perintendent of the ""I'- colored people coming

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^p;A^:?^-?^y C^-iii^iye-r'<-" continued this super- vision by order of the .secretary of war. His enlarged territory em- braced all military posts from Cairo to Paducah, south to Natchez and up the White and Arkan- .siis rivers, and he continued until the end of the war protecting health, enforcing order and industry and establishing schools. In October, 1863, he was commissioned colonel and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general and became assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's bureau. In 1866 he estalilished and edited The Memphis (Tenn.) Vui^l. He was state .superintendent of schools of Tennessee, 1867-69, and commissioner of the United States bureau of education from 1870 to 1886, wlien he resigned. The bureau, during liis administration, acquired a consider- able mu.seum, a library of 18,000 volumes, em- ployed thirty -eight clerks and assistants, and its publications and influence were recognized in all civilized lands. He represented the interior de[>artnient in the Government exhibit at the Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876 and had chief charge of the etlucational exhibit at New Orleans in 1885, especially promoting the exinbition of the educjition of the United States in the inter- national exfKjsitions at Vienna and Paris. In 1885 he was president of the international con- gres.s of education at New Orleans and also vice- president of a similar congress at Havre, France. He was president of Marietta college, Ohio, as 8Uccps,sor to President Andrews, 1886-91. He resip^ed in 1891 and in 1806 was elected president of Sheldon Jackson college. Salt T.«ike City, Utah. He was elected a member of the Loyal Legion and

of various sjinitary. liisloricai, scientilic, educa- tional and cliarily btianls and a-ssociations; was vice-president of the American association for the advancement of science; president of the American social science association; honorary member of the French ministry of public instruc- tion, and member of the Japanese society of savants for the promotion of education. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Rutgers col- lege in 1872 and that of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1876.

EATON, John Henry, senator, was born in Halifax county, N.C.. 1787. He practised law in Nashville, Tenn., and became a successful politi- cian. He was elected U.S. senator in 1818 to suc- ceed George Washington Campbell, who had re- signed to become U.S. minister to Russia. He served out Senator Campbell's term and in 1821 was re-elected and again in 1827, resigning in 1829 to accept the portfolio of war in President Jackson's cabinet. In 1831 he resigned with the other members of Jackson's cabinet on account of the " Eaton social scandal," in which his wife. Marga- ret L. O'Neill Timberlake, was the central figure. In 1834 he was appointed by President Jackson governor of the territory of Florida, resigning in 1836 to accept the mission to Spain, to which posi- tion he was appointed by President Van Buren. He resigned in 1840 and returned to Washington. He wrote Life of Andreio Jackson (1818). He died in Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 1856.

EATON, Joseph Haywood, educator, was born in Berlin, Delaware county, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1812. He was a brother of Prof. George W. Eaton. He attended Georgetown college, Ky., for a time, and was graduated from Hamilton literary and theological institution in 1837. He taught school in Davidson county and at Fayette- ville, Tenn., 1837^1; was professor in the new Baptist institution at Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1841- 47, and on its organization as Union university he was made its president, serving 1847-59. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1843 and was pastor at Murfreesboro, 1843-59. He received the honorary degree of LL. D. He died in Mur- freesboro, Tenn., Jan. 12, 1859.

EATON, Joseph Oriel, i)ainter, was born in Licking county, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1829. He was educated in art in New York city and becan-.e especially well-known as a portrait painter. He was elected an associate National academician and a member of other art organizations. His paintings include: Landscape Vieio on the Ilrnhon (1868); Mi>rnl Instrnctinn (1869); Portrait of li. S. friffiird (1869); Portrait of the Pev. George 11. Ilep- tnorth (1870); Damiinr/ Mnternity (1870); The Lost Chapter (1871): Little Nell and Her Grand fiOier f 1ft71): The Greek Water-Carrier (1872); and many portr-.its. He died in Y^onkers, N.Y^, Feb. 7, 1875.