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EATON, GEO. C., farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Fort Madison; born in Worcester Co., Mass., November 9, 1805; son of Jonas and Sally Eaton, nee Powers, of New England nativity, dating back to the Mayflower; at the age of 8, his father died, and he was educated by a cousin. In 1828, he married Mary Goodrich, who was born in Worcester Co., Mass., in 1795, and died in 1832, leaving two children — Julia, born in 1829, died in 1843, and Lucian, born Sept. 24, 1831. During the late war, was Captain of a company; participated with Frank Blair in the taking of Camp Jackson, then a commissioned officer stationed at St. Louis, that being the headquarters of the department. He was an active worker in the Temperance cause; he took Gen. Grant’s deposition in the Babcock whisky case, at Washington, as counsel of the Government in a whisky case; now a prominent lawyer of St. Louis, a Register in Bankruptcy and U. S. Commissioner. Mr. Geo. Eaton afterward married Abigail Nichols, who was born in the State of New York Feb. 28, 1803; she died in January, 1860, leaving three children Mary A., born Aug. 18, 1836, a successful teacher, with an experience of thirty-two terms in school; Louisa M., born July 19, 1839, the wife of Wm. Vanhyning, of Des Moines; Helen S., born Aug. 19, 1841. Mr. E. was an Old-Line Whig, then active in original Republicanism, now a Liberal Democrat; liberal in religion; his first wife was a member of the Unitarian, and his second, of the M. E. Church. After the death of his first wife, he removed to Denmark, N. Y.; there he married his second wife; thence to St. Lawrence Co.; in 1846, to Lee Co.; remained two years in Denmark, thence to his present place of residence; has held the office of Justice of the Peace twenty years; has also been Assessor.