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Easton, Nicholas – Eaton, Isaac

Easton, Nicholas

governor Rhode Island, was born in 1593 Rhode Island. He was governor of the united colonies of Rhode Island and ProVidence in 1650-52. He died Aug. 15, 1675, in Newport, R. I.

Easton, Rufus

jurist, congressman.

He was appointed United States judge for the territory of Louisiana in 1805; and was elected a delegate to congress from Missouri territory from 1814 to 1816.

Eaton, Amos

scientist, author, was born May 17, 1776, in Chatham, N. Y. He was a prominent scientist whose writings include Index to Geology of the Northern States; Natural History of New York; Geological Survey of the Erie Canal District; Philosophical Instructor; and Manual of Botany of North America. He died May 6, 1842, in Chatham, N. Y.

Eaton, Asa

clergyman, author, was born July 25, 1778, in Plaistow. He was rector of Trinity church, Bridgewater, Mass.; and wrote History of Christ Church, Boston. He died March 24, 1858, in Boston, Mass.

Eaton, Benjamin H

farmer, manufacturer, governor, was born Dec. 15, 1833, in West Bedford, Ohio. He served as justice of the peace, county commissioner, and as representative and senator in the territorial legislature; and in 1884 was elected governor of the state of Colorado.

Eaton, Charles Henry

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 15, 1852, in Beverly, Mass. He attended Dean academy, Tufts' college, and Tufts' Divinity school. He has attained success as a universalist clergyman, and has filled pastorates in St. Paul's church of Palmer, Mass.; and in the Church of the Divine Paternity of New York city. He has written extensively on reform and social economics.

Eaton, Cyrus

educator, author, poet, was born Feb. 11, 1784, in Framingham, Mass. He was an educator of Maine who was totally blind for the last thirty years of his life; and for five years was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature. He was the author of Annals of Warren, Maine; Woman, a poem; and History of Thomaston, Maine. He died Jan. 21, 1875, in Warren, Maine.

Eaton, Daniel Cady

educator, author, was born Sept. 12, 1834, in Fort Gratiot, Mich. He was a professor of botany at Yale university; and the author of The Ferns of North America; and Ferns of the Southwest. He died in 1895.

Eaton, Daniel Cady

educator, author, was born June 16, 1837, in Johnstown, N. Y. He was a professor of the history of art at Yale university in 1869- 76; and the author of Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture.

Eaton, Dorman Bridgman

jurist, author, was born June 27, 1823, in Hardwick, Vt. He is a jurist of New York city, prominent in civil service reform, who has published Civil Service in Great Britain, and edited the seventh edition of Kent's Commentaries.

Eaton, Horace

educator, governor, was born June 22, 1804, in Barnard, Vt.

He was for some years a member of the legislature; lieutenant-governor from 1843 to 1846; superintendent of public schools from 1845 to 1850; governor of the state from 1846 to 1849; and was a member of the constitutional convention in 1848. He died July 4, 1855, in Middlebury.

Eaton, Isaac

educator, was born in 1724, in Montgomery, Pa. He was for twenty-six years pastor of the baptist church in Hopewell, N. J., and was the first teacher among American baptists to open a school for the education of young men for the ministry. He died July 4, 1772.