Jackson-Clinton County IA Archives Biographies.....Eaton, William 
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Source: History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1910
Author: J. W. Ellis

WILLIAM EATON.

The name of Eaton is an old and familiar one in agricultural circles in Jackson 
county, its members being identified therewith since 1846. William Eaton was 
born on the farm on which he now makes his home, January 30, 1864, a son of 
Miles Eaton. The father is a native of Cortland county, New York, born on the 
17th of September, 1827, and was a lad of nine years when he removed to the 
west, locating in Illinois. He was there reared to the age of nineteen years 
and then, in 1846, came to Jackson county, Iowa. For a year thereafter he made 
his home with a brother-in-law, Lyman Bates, and subsequently entered eighty 
acres of land from the government. This tract is located in Maquoketa township 
and from that date to the present has been the home of the family. Miles Eaton 
at once located on his newly acquired possessions and immediately began to 
improve and develop the place. In due time he had his land divided into fields 
of convenient size and from the well cultivated soil reaped abundant harvests. 
Mr. Eaton was married after coming to Jackson county, the lady of his choice 
being Miss Adeline Taylor, who was born in Warren county, New York, October 26, 
1829. On this farm they reared their family and here the wife and mother passed 
away in 1904, at the age of seventy-five. The father still survives and is now 
eighty-two years old. He still makes his home on the farm, which is being 
operated by his two sons William and Myron. In his family were six children, 
namely: Myron, Lucy and William, all at home; Emma, the wife of Louis 
Riedinger, of Maquoketa township; Alvira, the deceased wife of Otto Romer; and 
Miles Kemp, who wedded Miss Mary Kramer and is engaged in farming in Clinton 
county, Iowa.
William Eaton, the immediate subject of this review, spent the period of his 
boyhood and youth in much the usual manner of farm lads of the period, 
assisting in the work of the fields from the time he was able to handle a plow 
during the spring and summer seasons, while in the winter months he pursued his 
studies in the district schools. He remained under the parental roof until he 
was twenty years of age, and then, wishing to establish a home and engage in 
business on his own account, made the first step in this direction by his 
marriage to Miss Lottie Tubbs, in 1884. He took his bride to a farm belonging 
to a brother in Jackson county and there they began their domestic life, making 
their home thereon for seven years. In the meantime, Mr. Eaton had accumulated 
some money, which he invested in sixty-seven acres of land in Clinton county, 
this state. He then took up his abode on this place, and it was there that 
there that the wife passed away on the 3d of January, 1899, at a comparatively 
early age. She was a daughter of Harris Tubbs, a farmer of Jackson county, and 
by her marriage became the mother of five children, who are left to mourn her 
loss. These are: Blanche, the wife of Charles Small, a resident of Maquoketa; 
Glen A., at home; Frank C., who is now in Montana; Beulah Myrtle, who lives 
with an aunt in Cookston, Minnesota; and Clarence K., at home.
Subsequent to the death of the wife and mother, Mr. Eaton with his children, 
returned to the home of his father in Jackson county, and since that time has 
been engaged in operating the homestead property. Although Mr. Eaton lives in a 
township which is largely democratic, he is a republican and his popularity is 
manifest by his election to public office, for like his father, he has for many 
years been a school director and in November, 1908, was elected trustee of the 
township. The family is one of prominence in both business and social circles 
and the work of agricultural development and improvement which was begun by the 
father in Jackson county more than six decades ago is still continued by the 
sons, who are enterprising and progressive farmers, now operating four hundred 
and eighty acres of land. Their methods, too, are most honorable so that their 
splendid success is well deserved.
J. W. Ellis, History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1910

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