Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Eaton, W. 1838 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  W. EATON, M D., Hutsonville. Among the enterising [sic] practitioners of
medicine in Crawford County is Dr. Eaton, who was born in Sullivan County, Ind,
on the 22d day of February, 1838. He was raised on a farm until he was nineteen
years of age, and educated from the common schools and seminary at Sullivan. At
twenty years of age, he began teaching the common schools of his native county
during the winter months, and working on the farm in the summer. April 20, 1861,
he enlisted in the last rebellion, and served in Company I, Seventeenth Indiana
Volunteers, under command of Col. John T. Wilder, and was engaged in many
battles; the following are among the most prominent, viz.: Stone River, Hoover's
Gap, Selma, Ala., Chattanooga and Nashville. He was mustered out of service
August 19, 1865, and immediately returned to his native town and began the study
of medicine with Dr. Hinkle, with whom he had studied before entering the army.
In 1865, he entered the Rush Medical College at Chicago, and graduated in 1867.
He immediately entered upon the practice of his profession at Hutsonville, where
he has built up a largo and increasing practice. He was united in wedlock in
1867, May 7, to Miss Eliza Griffith, who has borne him four children, viz.:
Georgia, Fanny, Charley and Bethel. Capt. Charles Eaton, the father of our
subject, was a farmer, born in Kentucky, emigrated to Sullivan County, Ind., in
about 1825, where he died in 1878, aged sixty-six years. His wife and mother of
our subject was born in Kentucky, and died in Sullivan County, Ind., in 1866,
aged fifty-seven years. They had eleven children, seven of whom are now living,
viz.: James, Madison, Sarah, Lewis S., William, Robert and Charles, the latter a
physician at Annapolis. The Doctor is a member of the Esculapian Medical
Association of the Wabash Valley, and President of the Crawford County
Association. He is an Odd Fellow, Knight of Honor, and with his wife, member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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