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Person · 1850-1929

Adoniram Judson Eaton was born on October 16, 1850, in Granville Centre, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.

He was an educator. He attended Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S. (B.A., 1873 and M.A., 1877) and continued his studies at Harvard (B.A., 1876), Yale, and Leipzig (Ph.D., 1885). He became Headmaster of Amherst Academy, Mass. (1877-1879) and later Principal of Woonsocket High School, Providence, R.I. In 1886, he was appointed Associate Professor of Classics at McGill University. He was a member of the American Oriental Society and the American Philological Association. He edited several textbooks for colleges and schools and was a frequent contributor to educational journals.

In 1879, he married Adelia Woodman (1851–1926). He died on August 1, 1929, in Montreal, Quebec.

Eaton, John, 1829-1906
Person · 1829-1906

John Henry Eaton was born on December 5, 1829, in Sutton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.

He was an educator and Civil War veteran. He graduated from Dartmouth College, N. H. in 1854. Then he studied at Andover Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1862 to the Presbyterian ministry. He received his M.A. and L. LD degrees from Rutgers University, New Jersey. Eaton taught school in Cleveland and in Toledo (1856-1859). In 1861, he entered the American Civil War as a chaplain of the 27th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1862, he was appointed superintendent of freedmen and in 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant appointed him the Superintendent of Negro Affairs for the Department of Tennessee, where Eaton supervised the establishment of 74 schools. In 1866, he was nominated by President Andrew Johnson and confirmed by the US Senate for the appointment of a brevet brigadier general of volunteers. General Eaton left the military and eventually returned to his career in education and became editor of the Memphis Daily Post. He was then appointed US Commissioner of Education in 1870 and served in the Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C. From 1886 to 1891, Eaton was president of Marietta College, and, in 1895, he was appointed president of Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska. In 1898, he became inspector of education in Puerto Rico and played a role in the centralization of its educational system. He was also the president of Westminster College in Salt Lake City and served as Councillor of the American Public Health Association, Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and president of the Association of Social Science. He wrote a history of Thetford Academy, "Mormons of Today", "The Freedmen in the War", "Schools of Tennessee" and several reports, addresses, and magazine articles.

In 1864, he married Alice Eugenia Shirley (1844–1927). He died on February 8, 1906, in Washington, D.C. and is buried at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Ebaugh, Franklin G., 1921
n80147139 · Person · 1921-1990

Dr. Franklin G. Ebaugh (1921-1990) was a graduate of Dartmouth College (1944) and earned his medical degree from Cornell Medical College in 1946. Ebaugh was a colonel in the Army Reserves and became Chief of Staff at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Palo Alto, California in 1972. Previous to that, Ebaugh was Associate Dean for Veterans Affairs and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School, Dean of the University of Utah School of Medicine (1970), and Dean of the Boston University School of Medicine (1964).