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reigning: l>ey reached liini. Ilamet then re- tired to Syracuse, and Jussiif Camnialli retained the custody of Haniefs wife and cliiidren. The action of Consul-K^neral Lear was diaracterized by Eaton as treacliery to liis government and a l>etnjyal of her interests. On his return to the United States Consul Eiiton was well received by the jieople. President Jefferson mentioned him houonibly in his message to congress, but that body refused him compensjition for his pecuniary losses or such recognition of his services as he ileemed his action warranted. The state of Massa- chusetts, however, granted him 10,000 acres of land and for securing the release of the Danish captives, the king of Denmark i)resented him with a gold box. Aaron Burr while planning his s<iuthwestern empire endeavored to enlist General Eaton in the scheme and in the trial of Burr at Richmond, Va., Eaton was a princiiml witness against him. He afterward represented Brimfield in the Massaclmsetts legislature. He attained the rank of brigadier-general in the U.S. army. For a fuller account .see Life of Gen- eral Eaton by Festus Foster (1813) and a memoir by C. C. Fulton in Sparks's American Biographies. He died in Brimfield, Mass., June 1, 1811

EATON, William Hadley, clergyman, was born at Goffstowu, N.H., Sept. 4, 1818; son of David and Betsey (Hadlej-) Eaton; and a descend- ant in the seventh generation from John Eaton who emigrated from England to America about 1G:34 and settled at Salisburj-, Mass. He was prepared for college at the New Hampshire liter- ary institution at New Hampton, was graduated from Brown university in 1845, and from the Newton theological institution in 1848. He was licensed to preach in the same year and on Aug. 10, 1849, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Second Baptist church at Salem, Mass. He resigned his pastorate in 18o4 and for two years was agent for the academy at New London, N.H., afterward Colby academy, raising $100,000 for the institution. He was pastor at Nashua, N.H., 18."»6-70; was financial agent of the Newton theo- logical institution, 1870-71, raising for it §200,000; was ixistor at Keene, N.H., 1871-89, and at Nashua, N.H., 1889-96. He was a tru.stee of Colby academy, 1800-91; of Newton theological institution, 1808-88; and of Brown university, 187.->-90. Brown university confeiTed upon liim the degree of D.D, in 1807. He published: Our Fathers' God Our God (I860); TTie Baptist Church of Keene, N.U., its Conflict and its Victory (1886); Memorial of the Jiev. E. E. Cummings (1886); and left unfinished a genealogical work, lite Descend- ants of John and Anne Eaton, 1640-lSf/O. He also contributed valuable historical, genealogical and biographical sketches to current periodicals. He died at Nashua, N.H., June 10, 1896.

EATON, William Wallace, .senator, was born in Tolland, Conn., Oct. 11, 1816. He was edu- cated in liis native town, studied law in the oHice of Judge Waldo and was admitted to the Tolland county bar in 1837. He established a law business in Tolland, spent several years in Columbia, S.C, and retvirning to Connecticut re- sumed his practice and represented his native town in the state legislature, 1847 and 1848. He was a Democratic state senator in 1850, removed to Hartford in 1852 and represented the city in the state legislature 1853, 1863, 1868, 1870, 1871, 1873 and 1874, serving as speaker in 1853 and in 1873. He was a judge of the Hartford city court, city recorder for four years and clerk of the courts for many years. He was elected to the United States senate as successor to William A. Buckingham for the term beginning March 4, 1875, and on the death of Senator Buckingham, Feb. 3, 1875, he was appointed to fill the vacancy, thus serving in the senate from February, 1875, to March 3, 1881. In the senate he opposed the ap- pointment of an electoral commission to de- termine the presidential contest of 1876-77; was chairman of the committee on foreign affairs; favored a tariff commission and introduced a bill to effect its appointment. He was a representa- tive in the 48th congress, 1883-85, having been elected as a Democrat in a strongly Republican district. He retired from public life in 1885 and died in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 21, 1898.

EATON, Wyatt, painter, was born in Phillips- burg, Quebec, Canada, May 6, 1849. In 1867 he became a i:)upil at the National academy of de- sign in New York cit}', and later studied under Joseph O. Eaton. In 1872 he went abroad, study- ing first with Whistler in London, and later with Gerome and Millet. In 1876 he returned to New York city and opened a studio, teaching also in the Cooper institute. He founded and was for a time president and secretary of the Society of American artists. He was be.st known as a jiortrait painter. His works include: Jiererie (1875); Harvesters at i?M«(1876); Boy WhUtJiny; Grandmother and Child (1880); and jjortraits of Bryant, AVIiittier, Holmes, Longfellow and Emer- son. He died in Newport, R.I., June 7, 1896.

EBERHARD, Ernst, musician, was born in Hanover, Germany, May 30, 1839; .son of Cantor Carl Pliilip Eberliard. His father was an organist of some note and the son received from him his fir.st instructions in music. At a very early age he acquired facility in playing on several in- struments and V)y 1849 he could take his fatlier's place at the organ. He attended a Latin school in his native city and studied organ under Carl Lalimeyer, piano and counterpoint imder the court organist, Henry Enckhausen, and orches- tration under Henry Marschner. He removed to