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See also:EATON, DORMAN See also:BRIDGMAN (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. 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: EATON, DORMAN BRIDGMAN (1823-1899)
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