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William Eaton
William Eaton 1764-1811, U.S. army officer, celebrated for his exploit in the Tripolitan War, b. Woodstock, Conn. Captain Eaton was sent to Tunis as consul in 1798 and learned much about the Barbary States . When he returned to the United States in 1804, he had a scheme to win the war against Trip... Read more
John Eaton
John Eaton 1829-1906, American educator, b. Sutton, N.H., grad. Dartmouth, 1854. After serving as a school principal in Cleveland, Ohio, and as superintendent of schools in Toledo, he enrolled at Andover Theological Seminary in 1859. During the Civil War, he served as a chaplain in the Union army a... Read more
John Henry Eaton
John Henry Eaton 1790-1856, U.S. Senator (1818-29) and Secretary of War (1829-31), b. Halifax co., N.C. After being admitted to the bar, he practiced in Franklin, Tenn., and married Myra Lewis, a ward of Andrew Jackson. Eaton remained close to Jackson and completed (1817) the biography of Jackson b... Read more
John Davenport
John Davenport 1597-1670, Puritan clergyman, one of the founders of New Haven, Conn., b. Coventry, England, educated at Merton and Magdalen colleges, Oxford. Starting as a Church of England cleric, Davenport turned more and more to nonconformity. As pastor of an influential London parish he fostere... Read more
Mather Byles
Mather Byles , 1707-88, American clergyman and poet, b. Boston. Famous minister of the Hollis St. Congregational Church, Boston, from 1732, he was dismissed for his Tory sympathies after the British evacuation of Boston. From his uncle, Cotton Mather, he inherited a valuable library, to which he add... Read more
John Frederick Kensett
John Frederick Kensett , 1816-72, American landscape painter, of the Hudson River school , b. Cheshire, Conn. He began painting while working as an engraver and in 1840 went to England to study. He spent some time in Paris and in Düsseldorf before going (1845) to Rome, where he became a popula... Read more
Tripolitan War
Tripolitan War , 1800-1815, conflict between the United States and the Barbary States . Piracy had become a normal source of income in the N African Barbary States long before the United States came into existence. The new republic adopted the common European practice of paying tribute to buy immun... Read more
Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey , 1785-1859, English essayist. In 1802 he ran away from school and tramped about the country, eventually settling in London. His family soon found him and entered him (1803) in Worcester College, Oxford, where he developed a deep interest in German literature and philosophy. He lef... Read more
Kitchen Cabinet
Kitchen Cabinet in U.S. history, popular name for the group of intimate, unofficial advisers of President Jackson . Early in his administration Jackson abandoned official cabinet meetings and used heads of departments solely to execute their departmental duties, while the policies of his administr... Read more
Lansing
Lansing 1 Village (1990 pop. 28,086), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago, near the Ind. line; inc. 1893. Among the city's industries are meatpacking, food processing, and the manufacture of metal products. 2 City (1990 pop. 127,321), state capital, Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham counties, S Mic... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Eaton,"

Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome Definition Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome is an autoimmune disease that causes...and thighs. Description In order to understand Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome, it's important to have some understanding...
Dorman Bridgman Eaton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Dorman Bridgman Eaton Dorman Bridgman Eaton (1823-1899), American lawyer and author, was a strong advocate...draft on which the Civil Service Act of 1883 was based. Dorman Eaton was born in Hardwick, Vt., on June 27, 1823. After graduation...
Eaton-Lambert Syndrome
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer Eaton-Lambert syndrome Description Eaton-Lambert syndrome, also called Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS), is a rare disorder affecting the muscles and nerves. LEMS is known to be associated with small cell lung cancer. It may...
Eaton, Dorman Bridgman
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law EATON, DORMAN BRIDGMAN Dorman Bridgman Eaton was born June 27, 1823, in Hardwick, Vermont. He was a successful...doctor of laws degree from the University of Vermont in 1848, Eaton attended Harvard Law School in 1850 and was admitted to the New...
John Henry Eaton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition John Henry Eaton 1790-1856, U.S. Senator (1818...Myra Lewis, a ward of Andrew Jackson. Eaton remained close to Jackson and completed...elected (1821, 1826) to the Senate, Eaton resigned in 1829 to enter the cabinet...
William Eaton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition William Eaton 1764-1811, U.S. army officer, celebrated...Tripolitan War, b. Woodstock, Conn. Captain Eaton was sent to Tunis as consul in 1798 and...allowed him to try his plan. In Egypt, Eaton persuaded the claimant to undertake the...
Theophilus Eaton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Theophilus Eaton 1590-1658, Puritan leader in Connecticut, one of the founders of New...there, and the next spring settlers came, and New Haven was founded. Eaton was the governor and a leading figure of the New Haven colony until his...
Eaton, Walter Prichard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Eaton, Walter Prichard (1878–1957), critic and author. Born in...Yale. Although he consistently argued for a progressive, serious drama, Eaton's views were fundamentally conservative, and he welcomed much that now...
Reuben Eaton Fenton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Reuben Eaton Fenton 1819-85, U.S. politician, b. Carroll, N.Y. He was elected to the New York assembly in 1849 and to Congress in...
Long Eaton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Long Eaton town (1991 pop. 42,285), Derbyshire, central England. A number of products are manufactured, including synthetics, electrical equipment, and railroad carriages.

Dictionary entries related to "Eaton,"

Eaton Affair
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History EATON AFFAIR EATON AFFAIR. In April 1828 John B. Timberlake, a U.S. Navy purser, committed...because his wife, Margaret, was having an affair with Senator John Henry Eaton, a boarder at her father's Washington, D.C., inn. When Margaret...
Eaton, Amos
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Eaton, Amos (b . Chatham, New York, 17 May...applied education . The son of a farmer, Abel Eaton, of old New England stock, Amos was born...surveying. Even in those early years, however, Eaton gave evidence of an interest in popular science...
Hodgkinson, Eaton
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Hodgkinson, Eaton ( b. Anderton, near Great Budworth, Cheshire, England, 26 February...long biographical article, see Robert Rawson, “ Memoir of Eaton Hodgkinson, ” in Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical...
Fitch, Asa
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...School in nearby Troy, headed by Amos Eaton. The school had an all-science curriculum...admitted as a participant in another of Eaton ’ s experiments in scientific...zeal for natural history acquired under Eaton ’ s inspiration. He retired...
Hall, James, Jr.
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...of Stephen van Rensselaer and with Amos Eaton as director. Students lectured while teachers...under the able, heterodox tutelage of Eaton and came into contact with Ebenezer Emmons...and marital estrangement. Persuaded by Eaton and prodded by DeWitt Clinton, the New...
Contraband, Slaves as
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of destitute blacks during his Tennessee and Mississippi campaign, he appointed the chaplain John Eaton to assume charge of the contrabands. Eaton and other superintendents of contrabands established contraband camps throughout the occupied South...
Mineralogy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...lecturer, rather than as a researcher. Among his students, Amos Eaton, Charles Upham Shepard, and Dana became important in the further...afforded public platforms from which such men as Silliman and Eaton and, later, Louis Agassiz spread scientific ideas. The Academy...
Magnet Schools
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...that should be used for systemwide improvements. BIBLIOGRAPHY Eaton, Susan E., and Elizabeth Crutcher. "Magnets, Media, and...v. Board of Education." Edited by Gary Orfield and Susan Eaton. New York: New Press, 1996. Metz, Mary Heywood. Different...
Emmons, Ebenezer
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...principal objective of American geologists from Maclure and Eaton through Edward Hitchcock and David Dale Owen. By 1842 the Transition...history. In 1826 he was studying geology and assisting Amos Eaton at the newly organized Rensselaer School (now Rensselaer Polytechnic...
Hitchcock, Edward
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...ending his brief career in astronomy. An encounter with Amos Eaton at Amherst, sometime during Hitchcock ’ s Deerfield...lithologies. As early as 1824 he had provided an appendix to Eaton ’ s A Geological and Agricultural Survey of the District...

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Eaton Vance Funds Declares Dividends and Capital Gains.
Business Wire; 12/20/2005; 700+ words ; ...Eaton Vance Tax- Managed Growth Fund 1.0 Quarterly...12/20/05 12/21/05 12/22/05 Eaton Vance Large-Cap Capital Core Fund Class...12/20/05 12/21/05 12/22/05 Eaton Vance Large-Cap Capital Core Fund Class...
Eaton Vance Closed-End Municipal Bond Funds Fund Data Now Available.
PR Newswire; 5/4/2009; 700+ words ; ...BOSTON, May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eaton Vance Management today disclosed certain data for the Eaton Vance closed-end municipal bond funds...contact your financial adviser. In addition, Eaton Vance Management will make available periodic...
Eaton Vance Closed-End Fund Quarterly Data Now Available.
Business Wire; 5/29/2003; 700+ words ; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2003 Eaton Vance Management announced today that quarterly...2003. The information is available on Eaton Vance's web site at www.eatonvance...information, call (800) 225-6265. -0- Eaton Vance Municipal Bond Funds Eaton Vance...
Eaton Vance Closed-End Fund Quarterly Data Now Availalbe.
Business Wire; 8/21/2003; 577 words ; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2003 Eaton Vance Management announced that quarterly...2003. The information is available on Eaton Vance's web site at www.eatonvance...information, call (800) 225-6265. Eaton Vance Municipal Bond Funds Eaton Vance...
Eaton Vance Insured Municipal Bond Funds Declare Monthly Distributions.
PR Newswire; 1/30/2009; 700+ words ; ...Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eaton Vance Management, the Boston-based...increase in the monthly distribution for Eaton Vance Insured Municipal Bond Fund II (NYSE Alternext US: EIV), Eaton Vance Insured California Municipal Bond...
Eaton Vance Funds Declare Income and Capital Gains.
Business Wire; 12/23/2004; 700+ words ; ...Reinvestment Payable Fund Type Rate Date Date Date Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Growth Fund 1.0 Income...12/23/04 12/27/04 12/28/04 Eaton Vance Large-Cap Core Capital Fund Gain...12/23/04 12/27/04 12/28/04 Eaton Vance Large-Cap Core Capital Fund Gain...
Eaton Vance Sees Significant Growth in Managed Account Distribution Adds Strategies to Nine Partner Platforms; Increases AUM by 16% in First Half of Calendar Year 2006.(Calendar)
Business Wire; 8/28/2006; 700+ words ; BOSTON -- Eaton Vance Corp. announced today that the Eaton Vance Managed Accounts group has significantly expanded distribution of Eaton Vance portfolios and those of Eaton Vance subsidiaries across key partner platforms over the past 18 months...
Eaton Vance Closed-End Municipal Bond Funds; Fund Data Now Available.
Business Wire; 7/25/2006; 700+ words ; BOSTON -- Eaton Vance Management today disclosed certain data for the Eaton Vance closed-end municipal bond funds (the "Funds...and /or market factors. The Funds are managed by Eaton Vance Management. Eaton Vance and its affiliates had...
Eaton Vance Closed-End Municipal Bond Funds.
PR Newswire; 7/21/2009; 700+ words ; ...July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eaton Vance Management today disclosed certain data for the Eaton Vance closed-end municipal bond funds...contact your financial adviser. In addition, Eaton Vance Management will make available periodic...
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trusts Declare Monthly Distributions.
PR Newswire; 12/31/2009; 592 words ; ...31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eaton Vance Management, the Boston-based...Annualized Fund Per Share Market Price Yield Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (NYSE: EVN) $0.075833 $11.57 7.87% Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust...