Routt County CO Archives Biographies.....Eaton, Ervin Daniel July 10, 1863 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Although of prime New England ancestry, his father, Sylvester Eaton, having

been born in Maine, and his mother, whose maiden name was Jennie (Gibson)

Leighton, in Vermont, Ervin D. Eaton, of Routt county, is wholly a product of

the West.  He was born at Utica, Winona county, Minnesota, on July 10, 1863, and

moved with his parents to Kansas in his boyhood.  He secured his education in

the common schools and at the Davis City, Nebraska, high school.  His parents

were farmers, and the father was a pronounced Republican in political faith.  He

died in Minnesota in 1865.  There were three children in the family, one of

whom, Marguerite, died in 1874.  The other two, both sons, John A. and Ervin D.,

are living.  The latter remained at home working in the interest of his parents

until 1881, his later years before this date being passed as bill clerk for A.B.

Sims & Company, wholesale merchants at Atchison, Kansas.  In 1881 he came to

Colorado and located at Saguache, where he worked on ranches for wages until the

fall of that year, when he returned to Kansas, remaining two years. In 1883 he

again became a resident of this state, locating on a ranch in the vicinity of

Delta, where he continued to live until the spring of 1885, when he disposed of

his interests there and turned his attention to merchandising at Newcastle,

Garfield county, in partnership with M.C. Van de Venter, they having the

distinction of building the first store at that town.  The partnership lasted

two years, and at the end of that period Mr. Eaton sold out and moved to Aspen,

where he followed mining until the summer of 1887, when he again returned to

Kansas.  He remained in that state until 1893, clerking in a store at Corning. 

He then once more came to Colorado and took up a homestead three miles and a

half southwest of Yampa, Routt county.  This he improved and then leased it to a

tenant, himself in 1898 becoming manager in the mercantile establishment of H.J.

Hemage at Yampa.  He also served as postmaster at Yampa in 1899, 1900 and 1901.

 At the end of his term as postmaster he started a mercantile enterprise of his

own which he conducted until December, 1902, when he sold the business to accept

the office of clerk and recorder for the county, a position which he is still

filling, and to which he was elected as a Republican.  He is still interested in

ranching, however, and owns one hundred and sixty acres of superior land, all of

which is arable and under an advanced state of cultivation.  In the spirit of

improvement which has done so much for the locality in which his property is he

has been active and zealous, helping to build the Roaring Fork ditch and other

works of the kind, applying to local affairs for the general good the same

energy and intelligence which he has used so effectively in advancing his own

interests.  He started in life without money and has made his way unassisted

through his own efforts and capacity to consequence and comfort, holding firmly

every foot of ground he has gained and as well keeping his place among the

highest in the regard and good will of his fellow men.  Fraternally he is

connected with the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World.

 On June 6, 1888, he united in wedlock with Miss Ida V. Neiman, a native of

Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania.  They have had four children, one of whom died in

infancy, and Arthur C., Edith G. and Jessie L. are living.  Capable in business

and popular in public life, Mr. Eaton is easily one of the best citizens of the

county.

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905



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