Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Eaton, Barney Augustus ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Smith Vickery http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0005998 October 30, 2014, 10:22 pm Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897 Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson ASSEMBLY. The assembly consists of 100 members, who are chosen biennially by districts, and who receive a compensation of $500 for their term of office. The speaker is chosen by the members, and receives $500 for his services. The assembly contains 91 republicans, 8 democrats and 1 fusion. MILWAUKEE COUNTY. Third District. The towns of Franlkin, Oak Creek and Lake, and the villages of Cudahy and South Milwaukee, and the Seventeenth ward of the city of Milwaukee. BARNEY AUGUSTUS EATON (Rep.), of Milwaukee, was born October 29, 1853, in the town of Lake, Milwaukee county, and received a common school and business education in Milwaukee; has resided in Milwaukee county, excepting five years, from 1873 to 1878, when he was a resident of Georgetown, Colorado; is a farmer and small fruit grower by occupation; represented his district in the assembly in 1894; was president of the village of Cudahy in 1895-96; president of the Cudahy high school board of education in 1895, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the chairmanship of the town board of Lake in the spring of 1894; was director of the Town of Lake Fife Insurance Company sis years and served as school director twelve years; is at present vice president and director of the Milwaukee and Waukesha Electric Railway Company. Waa elected to the assembly in 1896, receiving 2,492 votes, against 1,818 for F. E. Mansfield, populist. Additional Comments: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1897/eaton1270gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb