Benjamin Harrison Eaton: Difference between revisions

Eaton was born in [[Coshocton, Ohio]], the second of eight children born to Hannah (née Smith) and Levi Eaton. HeHis maternal grandmother was Mary (née Yarnall) Smith, whose great grandfather, Francis Yarnall, emigrated to the Penn Colony in 1683.

Eaton went to school in [[West Bedford, Ohio]] and taught school there as well. In 1854, at the age of 21, he moved to [[Louisa County, Iowa]], where he taught school for two years. He returned to Ohio in 1856 where he married Delilah Wolf. His wife died in 1857 after giving birth to a son, Aaron James Eaton.