DORMAN See also:BRIDGMAN See also:EATON (1823-1899)
, See also:American lawyer, was See also:born at Hardwick, See also:Vermont, on the 27th of See also:June 1823
.
He graduated at the university of Vermont in 1848 and at the Harvard See also:Law School in 185o, and in the latter See also:year was admitted to the See also:bar in New See also:York See also:city
.
There he became associated in practice with See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Kent, the son of the See also:great See also:chancellor, an edition of whose Commentaries he assisted in editing
.
See also:Eaton See also:early became interested in municipal and See also:civil service reform
.
He was conspicuous in the fight against See also:Tweed and his followers, by one of whom he was assaulted; he required a See also:long See also:period of See also:rest, and went to See also:Europe, where he studied the workings of the civil service in various countries
.
From 1873 to 1875 he was a member of the first See also:United States Civil Service See also:Commission
.
In 1877, at the See also:request of See also:President See also:Hayes, he made a careful study of the See also:British civil service, and three years later published Civil Service in Great See also:Britain
.
He drafted the See also:Pendleton Civil Service See also:Act of 1883, and later became a member of the new commission established by it
.
He resigned in 1885, but was almost immediately reappointed by President See also:Cleveland; and served until 1886, editing the 3rd and 4th Reports of the commission
.
He was an organizer (1878) of the first society for the furtherance of civil service reform in New York, of the
See also:National Civil Service Reform Association, and of the National See also:Conference of the Unitarian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church (1865)
.
He died in New York city on the 23rd of See also:December 1899, leaving $roo,000 each to Harvard and See also:Columbia See also:universities for the establishments of professorships in See also:government
.
He was a legal writer and editor, and a frequent contributor to the leading reviews
.
In addition to the See also:works mentioned he published Should See also:Judges be Elected
?
(1873), The See also:Independent See also:Movement in New York (188o), See also:Term and See also:Tenure of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office (1882), The Spoils See also:System and Civil Service Reform (1882), Problems of See also:Police Legislation (1895) and The Government of Municipalities (1899)
.
See the privately printed memorial See also:volume, Dorman B
.
Eaton, 1823—1899 (New York, 1900)
.
End of Article: