Eaton, Arthmus 1813 - 1862

EATON

Posted By: Janice Sowers (email)
Date: 4/17/2005 at 13:52:57

Source: New Oregon Plain Dealer Mar. 21, 1862, Reprinted in Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Nov. 18, 1902, LP, C7

DIED--At Eatonville, Howard county Iowa, February 22nd, 1862, Arthmus Eaton, aged forty eight years and six months.

The deceased was a native of the State of Mass. At an early age he emigrated to the State of N. Y., where his parents still reside. From the State of New York he emigrated to western Pa., where he settled near Spring Creek on the big Brokenstraw and for a time followed the lumbering business. Meeting with reverses from becoming surety upon bank paper with others engaged in the same occupation, he settled up his business honorably, and removed to Beloit, Wis., from whence he removed to Iowa in the early part of 1857. He then settled in this County, bought the farm upon which he resided up to the time of his death, laid out the town of Eatonville, and mainly by his individual exertions procured the establishment of the Eatonville P. O., procured the laying out and opening of roads, and much to his credit had laid in his village one of the first school houses erected in the county. In his death the county lose one of its best most honorable enterprising and energetic citizens; the family of the deceased a kind and attentive husband and an affectionate father.