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John Eaton was born on December 3, 1829 at Sutton, New Hamshire, United States. He was the son of John and Janet (Andrew) Eaton.
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With thousands of ex-slaves fleeing to Union lines and the prospect of millions more to be emancipated, Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant foresaw enormous challenges ahead. What would be done with and for the freedmen? Grant turned to Colonel (later General) John Eaton to manage the gathering crisis. Eaton felt wholly inadequate to the huge task and tried to beg off, citing the resistance he knew he would encounter from many quarters, including Union officers who used free blacks as servants. Grant quietly replied, "Mr. Eaton, I have ordered you to report to me in person, and I will take care of you." This book, far too long out-of-print, details Eaton's approach to establishing policies that met the needs of freed slaves, as well as the military aims of General Grant and the governing aims of Abraham Lincoln. With personal anecdotes included from his meetings with Lincoln and Grant, you'll read stories here that you may not have read elsewhere. Eaton came to understand that the former slaves yearned desperately for their freedom, were entitled to their personhood, and he was astonished at their hunger for books and learning. He established schools and in 1863 and was an advocate of Negro suffrage. Eaton was made colonel of the 63rd Regiment of Colored Infantry. For the first time, this important work is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.
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John Eaton was born on December 3, 1829 at Sutton, New Hamshire, United States. He was the son of John and Janet (Andrew) Eaton.
He was reared on his father’s farm, supplemented his scanty schooling by home reading, and taught school until he was sent to the Thetford Academy in Vermont. He then worked his way through Dartmouth, graduating in 1854.
He went to Cleveland, Ohio, as principal of the Ward School. In 1856 he became superintendent of schools at Toledo, where he had opportunities to develop his marked administrative ability, and took a special interest in the compilation of educational statistics. He continued his earlier purpose of entering the ministry, however, and in 1859 resigned to attend Andover Theological Seminary.
Ordained in 1861, he entered the army as chaplain of the 27th Ohio Volunteers, which served first in Missouri and then in Tennessee.
In November 1862 Grant selected the young chaplain for the difficult task of caring for the negroes who flocked into the army camps.
Under Grant’s orders Eaton organized the freedmen into camps where provision was made for their physical needs and their education, and they were set to work picking cotton on abandoned plantations and cutting wood for the river steamboats.
Eaton’s jurisdiction as superintendent of freedmen was extended over the whole department of the Tennessee, including Arkansas.
He was given suitable military rank as colonel of a negro regiment in October 1863, and in March 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general. When the Freedmen’s Bureau, for which Eaton’s successful organization was an important precedent, was organized in the same month, he was appointed an assistant commissioner in charge of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and parts of Virginia.
He resigned in December and was mustered out. Aside from his personal interest in the South, Eaton felt the need for a Unionist newspaper at Memphis, his old headquarters, and in 1866-67 he edited the Memphis Post, which supported Grant for the presidency and showed its editor’s interest in education by advocating a system of free public schools. Under the school law of 1867 he was elected state superintendent for two years.
“Eaton’s system, ” however, was opposed by many who objected to spending money for this purpose, and it fell to the ground. Meanwhile he had been active in politics as an editor and as a member of the Republican state committee. Grant accordingly appointed him in 1869 to the board of visitors at West Point, and in 1870 made him Commissioner of Education.
The Bureau of Education, then three years old, was in danger of extinction from congressional neglect. It was Eaton’s task to build up the organization and to demonstrate its usefulness. Fortunately, in addition to administrative talent, he had tact and a flair for the kind of publicity needed to convince the public and Congress that his bureau was worth while. Moreover, he had the president’s cordial support.
Eaton thought it the main duty of the bureau to collect educational information and to disseminate it as widely as possible. He stood for no particular educational dogma, but tried to familiarize educators with the best practises here and abroad. Believing in federal appropriations to aid the states in developing school systems, he supported Senator Blair’s bill for federal aid.
In 1886 he resigned because of his health. Almost immediately he began another phase of his career, as a college president, at Marietta College, and then at Sheldon Jackson College at Salt Lake City (1895 - 99). He was asked to organize a public-school system in Porto Rico during the military occupation, and served until May 1, 1900, when he resigned because of serious ill health. He was prominent in various learned societies and other organizations in which he was interested.
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On September 29, 1864, he had married Alice Eugenia Shirley, the daughter of a Vicksburg Unionist.