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From William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, Cowley Co., Part 14:
GEORGE EATON, farmer, Section 18, P. O. Maple City, was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1839, and when a child came to this country with his parents; he settled in Marion County, Mo., in 1843, and in 1845 removed to Jackson County, Mo., where his father died in 1849, of cholera; he remained with his mother until 1859, engaged in farming; he went to the Pike's Peak country in Colorado, and returned home in 1859, and remained until 1861, and then returned to Colorado, and was engaged in the business of Government transportation and remained in that business until 1867; then returning home he remained there until 1869, when he started for Southwestern Kansas, and settled on his farm of 305 acres where he now lives; engaged in farming and stock-raising; not finding wheat a remunerative crop, has confined his grain crop to corn chiefly, averaging forty bushels per acre, and of millet three tons; his neat one and one-half story farm residence is with its contents insured, and is shaded by ornamental trees and shrubs; his orchard contains 250 assorted fruit trees, various berries, etc., while his stock interest is represented by from $8,000 to $10,000 worth of cattle, horses, etc. Mr. Eaton was married in 1874, to Miss Eliza Prewitt of this county; their children are David Prewitt, aged eleven years; Mary E. Eaton, aged seven years; Anna K. Eaton, aged five years; John H. Eaton, aged three years; Samuel A. Eaton, aged four months. Mr. Eaton is now filling his third term as Trustee of this township, and has also been for three years Director, and is now Clerk of School District No. 58, and is one of the pioneer settlers and representative men of this part of the country

Living in Silver Creek Twsp. in 1883 at the time the book was published.

1860 Census, Division 35, Jackson Co., Missouri
1870 with mother, aged 29
1880 Census Silver Creek, Cowley, Kansas, farmer
1885 Census, Spring Creek, Kansas, farmer

1900 Census, Dale Township, Kay, Oklahoma Territory
George Eaton 61
Eliza Eaton 46
Anna K Eaton 28
John H Eaton 11
Samuel A Eaton 17
Lida F Eaton 15

1910 Census, Newkirk Ward 3, Kay, Oklahoma
George Eaton 70
Eliza Eaton 54
Anna Eaton 32
Lida Eaton 24

Arkansas City Traveler, Wednesday, October 31, 1883. Register of Deeds. George Eaton was elected trustee of Spring Creek Township, not because he was so distressingly popular, but to secure the defeat of a man who persisted in listing cattle held in the Indian Territory by prominent Republicans. These Republicans got tired of paying lawyers to undo the work of one crank, and out of spite they turned in and elected this George Eaton. Since then George Eaton has gone daft. Sudden local prominence hath made him mad, and he essays to ride on this little ripple across the ocean of Cowley's politics into the haven afforded by the office of register of deeds. He forgets that T. H. Soward is skimming along on a wave that will bury Eaton and his handful of votes so far out of sight that he will never be heard of more. Mark this: Geo. Eaton will not carry his own township, and Soward will beat him in the county five hundred votes. This is official.

TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 24, 1879 - FRONT PAGE.
George Eaton, who lives 60 miles south of Coffeyville, in the Cherokee Nation, had a valuable mare stolen from on the night of June the 10th last. Last Monday Judge Tibbils saw her passing through the town, and recognizing her, halted the man in possession and took the mare from him. Ample proof of the ownership and larceny was made before Esq. R. M. Ross, and the man who gave his name as D. Logan, and hails from Arkansas City, took his departure, leaving the mare with the Judge. Chautauqua Journal.