Author: Eaton, Theophilus
Biography:
EATON, Theophilus (c 1786-1820: Greenberg)
As a printer in Oxford NY, he went into debt over a failed newspaper, The President, in 1808 and moved to New York City with his wife and child to try to recover financially. He joined the Typographical Society and participated in a strike in 1809, in which he appears to have argued successfully for compromises that brought the strike to an end. In 1811, nevertheless, he was obliged to file as an insolvent debtor in order to avoid prison. Eaton published two books centred on the city, Review of New York and the Compass Table, or Topographical Gazeteer (1813), but neither did very well. After the birth of another child, the family left New York. Eaton died of tuberculosis in Bethlehem NY, in the home of a relative. (Joshua Greenberg, Advocating the Man [2008]) HJ
Other Names:
- Th. Eaton