Sac-Floyd County IA Archives Biographies.....Eaton, Harrison 1840 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

HARRISON EATON, a highly respected citizen residing on a farm near Lake View, in
Viola township, Sac county, Iowa, dates his birth in Pike township, Wyoming
county, New York, May 11, 1840. He was the seventh-born in the family of eight
children of Amasa and Lydia (Campbell) Eaton, natives of Pennsylvania, and spent
his early boyhood days in New York. When he was about nine or ten years old the
family moved to De Kalb county, Illinois, and settled on a farm, where he grew
to manhood.

  When the war came on he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-sixth Illinois Cavalry,
and served under Captains Duncan and Shear. He participated in many of the
important engagements of the West, and was on the memorable "march to the sea."
He was honorably discharged September 23, 1864. During his service he contracted
asthma, from which disease he is still a sufferer.

  After the war Mr. Eaton returned to De Kalb county, Illinois, and remained
there until 1871. Then he moved to Floyd county, Iowa, and at that place
developed a farm. In 1888 he came to Sac county and bought an improved farm of
eighty acres in section 1 of Viola township, where he is now engaged in dairy
farming, milking an average of fifteen cows. He has a comfortable cottage home,
a story and a half, 14 x 22 feet, with an L, 12x22 feet; barn, 30x36 feet;
sheds, yards, feed lots, windmill, etc.

  Mr. Eaton was married, November 25, 1867, in De Kalb county, Illinois, to
Eliza Garbutt, who was born, reared and educated in Canada. Her parents, John
and Eleanor (Bellwood) Garbutt, natives of Yorkshire, England, were married in
Canada and died at Sycamore, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Eaton have had seven
children, viz.: Ida M., wife of Mel Wright, of Wall Lake township, Sac county,
Iowa; Albert F., also a resident of Wall Lake township; Myrtilla, Wilbert,
George K., Arthur J. and Richard.

  Mr. Eaton affiliates with the Republican party, and is a member of Gardner
Post, No. 90, G. A. R, Nora Springs, Floyd county, Iowa. He takes an active
interest in everything for the good of the township and county in which he
lives. Personally, he is a man of generous impulse, is frank and cordial in his
manner, and has made hosts of friends wherever he has lived.


Additional Comments:
Extracted From:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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