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CHARLES HOMER EATON, clerk, Verona, was born in Georgetown, Pa., June 28, 1861, and is the third son of Matthias M. and Mary S. Eaton. Hugh, father of M. M. Eaton, was a farmer near East Palestine, Ohio, where the latter was born. The Eatons are of Irish extraction. Thomas S. Jones, father of Mrs. Mary S. Eaton, was a prominent citizen of Doddridge county, W. Va., where she was born. M. M. Eaton was a clergyman of the M. E. Church, and was attached successively to the Western Ohio, West Virginia and Pittsburgh conferences. He died in 1879 at the age of sixty-two, and his widow is now aged sixty-four. Their eldest son, Theodore N., is presiding elder of the Pittsburgh conference. The other children are Charles Homer, Leonidas H. (who died aged thirty-two), Antoinette I. (Marsh, died aged twenty-three), Luella C. (died aged thirteen), Osman L. and Edgar E. The first, third and fourth sons are owners of a general hardware store at Verona, which was established in January, 1886, and are doing a successful business, under the supervision of Osman. They erected the building now occupied, in April, 1888. Charles H. Eaton was educated chiefly at the public schools and the college at Scio, Ohio, and when sixteen years old took his present position with the Dexter Spring company. In 1883 he built his residence on Parker street, and two years later married Anna B., daughter of David Yarnell. She was born in Allegheny City, and has one child, Ruth. Mr. Eaton is a trustee of the M. E. Church, and is a republican.