- John Eaton (General)
John Eaton (1829-1906) was a US Commissioner of Education and a brevet brigadier general during the American Civil War.
Biography
He was born at
Thetford, Vermont . He graduated fromDartmouth College in 1854, studied atAndover Theological Seminary , and was ordained in 1862 to thePresbyterian ministry.He served in the US Army during the
American Civil War . In November 1863,Ulysses S. Grant appointed him as the Superintendent of Negro Affairs for the Department of Tennessee; there he supervised the establishment of 74 schools. In 1863, he was made colonel of the Sixty-third Regiment of Colored Infantry, and, in 1865, he was advanced to brevet brigadier general.He edited the Memphis "Post" in 1866-1867. He was appointed United States
Commissioner of Education in 1870 and served with great efficiency in the Bureau of Education. Commissioner Eaton also reorganized the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.In 1886-1891, he was president of
Marietta College , and, in 1895, he was appointed president ofSheldon Jackson College in Salt Lake City,Utah . In 1898, he became inspector of education inPuerto Rico and played a role in the centralization of its educational system. His educational writings dealt largely with the education offreedmen . He wrote a history ofThetford Academy .ee also
* List of American Civil War generals
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NAME= Eaton General), John
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Union Army General
DATE OF BIRTH= 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH=Thetford, Vermont
DATE OF DEATH= 1906
PLACE OF DEATH=Washington, D.C.
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