Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Eaton, Robert 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Robert Eaton, one of the leading farmers of Jackson township, was born on the 
2d of November, 1858, in Kendall county, Illinois, and was a child of four 
years when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Will county, the 
family locating in Jackson township in 1862. His father, Daniel Eaton, was 
born in Craigh Warren in the north of Ireland, September 26, 1828, his parents 
having removed to that country from Scotland a few years prior to his birth. 
In the family were five sons. On attaining his majority, Daniel Eaton was 
united in marriage to Miss Mary McClintock and seven years later they came to 
the new world, locating first in Kendall county, Illinois, where they made 
their home until coming to Will county in 1862. Unto them were born ten 
children, seven sons and three daughters, of whom two sons and the three 
daughters still survive, namely: Daniel, a resident of Joliet; Robert, of this 
review; Mrs. G. J. Eib, of Jackson; Mrs. Anna Jacobson, also of Jackson; and 
Mrs. Mary Ralf, of Cedar Falls, Iowa. At the father's death, which occurred 
December 7, 1906, he had eighteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 
Throughout his active business life he continued to engage in agricultural 
pursuits and met with fair success, so that he was able to leave his widow in 
comfortable circumstances. He was an earnest and consistent member of the 
Central Presbyterian church of Joliet and his upright, honorable life won for 
him the respect and confidence of all with whom he came in contact either in 
business or social relations. Robert Eaton grew to manhood upon the home farm 
and has always followed the occupation to which he was reared, being now the 
owner of a well improved farm of eighty acres on section 9, Jackson township. 
In connection with general farming he makes a specialty of the raising of full 
blooded Poland China hogs, Percheron horses and shorthorn cattle. On the 3d of 
February, 1882, Mr. Eaton married Miss Julia E. Young, of Jackson township, 
who is the tenth in order of birth in a family of thirteen children, her 
parents being Sheldon and Eliza (Haugham) Young. She has four sisters and one 
brother still living, namely: Mrs. Lena Williams, a resident of Oklahoma; Mrs. 
L. H. Eib, of Joliet; Mrs. Emma Palmer, of Jackson township; Mrs. Mattie 
Pierce, of Chicago; and Walter H. Young, of Southington, Connecticut. The 
father of this family was born in New York state in 1820 and in 1838 came to 
Jackson township, Will county, Illinois, where he followed farming until his 
death, which occurred July 17, 1900. His wife died on the 28th of June, 1886. 
Mr. and Mrs. Eaton have four children: John R., Ernest L., Harry L., and 
Robert Young, all at home. On attaining his majority Mr. Eaton affiliated with 
the republican party, which he continued to support until the fall of 1906, 
when he became a prohibitionist and on that ticket ran for state senator. 
Although defeated ot the polls he received the largest vote the prohibition 
party ever polled in Will county. Both he and his wife are active members of 
the Central Presbyterian church of Joliet, and he is a prominent and 
influential member of several social organizations, having been an 
officeholder in the Illinois State Grange for fifteen years. He also belongs 
to the Court of Honor and Knights of the Globe and is now serving as president 
of the Will County Farmers Institute. He is a genial, broadminded man whom it 
is a pleasure to meet, and he has a host of friends throughout this section of 
the state. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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