Congregational clergyman, Civil War chaplain, b. Framingham, Mass. He attended Leicester, Mass., Academy, and graduated from Yale College (1842) and Yale Divinity School (1845). He was ordained in the Congregational Church and came to Wisconsin as an American Home Missionary in 1846. He was pastor at Lancaster (1846-1886), and served as moderator of the Presbyterian and Congregational Convention of Wisconsin (1854). During the Civil War he served as chaplain of the 7th Wisconsin Volunteers (1862-1865). He was a trustee of Beloit College (1866-1889), and acted in an advisory capacity to that school until his death. Leaving Wisconsin in 1886, he was pastor in Roscoe, Ill. (1886-1902). Eaton was a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1881-1899). E. D. Eaton, Two Wis. Pioneers (Cambridge, Mass.) 1933); Hist. of Grant Co. (Chicago, 1881); S. W. Eaton MSS in Yale Univ. library; E. D. Eaton Papers.Learn More
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