the students completed their course of study in 1835, Eaton requested a review of their progress by the school's less-than-enthusiastic board of examiners. The eight young ladies who participated in Eaton's experiment continued their education at the Troy Female Seminary. Eaton trained a bevy of future, notable, scientists and lectured to countless later educationists. Today Amos Eaton Hall houses the mathematics department, and the Amos Eaton Professorship is a faculty endowment named at the institute. The Amos Eaton Chair was originally given by students to Amos Eaton in 1839, but was later returned to the institute by the Eaton family. Personal life Following the death of his first wife, Polly Thomas, Eaton was remarried to Sally Cady in 1803, who bore him five sons. After her death he was remarried to Anna Bradley in 1816, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. She having died, Eaton married Alice Johnson in 1827, who bore him one son, and survived him about four years. Three of his children showed a preference for natural philosophy. Hezekiah Hulbert Eaton (1809-1832) became a chemist at Transylvania University but died at the age of twenty-three. Major General Amos Beebe Eaton (1806-1877) was a U.S. Army officer interested in natural philosophy. Sara Cady Eaton (1818-1881) taught natural sciences and modern languages in a young woman's seminary at Monticello, Illinois. Eaton's grandson, Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895), professed botany at Yale College in the 1860s. Works Amos Eaton published on agriculture, botany, engineering, geology, surveying, and zoology. Art without Science (1800) Elementary Treatise on Botany (1810) Botanical Dictionary (1817) (2nd 1819, 4th ed. 1836) Manual of Botany (1817) Index to the Geology of the Northern States (1818) Geological and Agricultural Survey of the County of Albany, New York (1820) Chemical Notebook (1821) Chemical Instructor (1822) Cuvier's Grand Division (1822) Geological Nomenclature of North America (1822) Zoological Syllabus and Notebook (1822) Geological and Agricultural Survey of the District adjoining the Erie Canal (1824) Philosophical Instructor (1824) Botanical Exercises (1825) Botanical Grammar and Dictionary (1828) Geological Text-Books Prepared for Popular Lectures on North American Geology (1830) Directions for Surveying and Engineering (1838) Geological Text-Book for the Troy Class (1841) Eaton's students James Curtis Booth — chemist, melter and refiner at the U.S. Mint Ezra S. Carr — medical doctor, natural scientist George Hammell Cook — state geologist of New Jersey and vice-president of Rutgers College James Dwight Dana —