Barney Augustus Eaton Explained

Barney Augustus Eaton
State:Wisconsin
State Senate:Wisconsin
District:7th
Term Start:1899
Term End:1907
Succeeded:George E. Page
Office2:Wisconsin State Assembly
Term Start2:1895
Term End2:1898
Party:Republican
Birth Date:29 October 1853
Birth Place:Lake, Wisconsin
Death Place:Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Barney Augustus Eaton (1853–1936) was a politician in Wisconsin.

Biography

Eaton was born on October 29, 1853, in the town of Lake, Wisconsin.[1] He would become a fruit farmer.

Political career

Eaton was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1895 to 1898, and later the Wisconsin State Senate from 1899 to 1907. Additionally, he had been president of the village of Cudahy, Wisconsin, from 1895 to 1896, and president of the Cudahy School Board in 1895. He also served as the director of the Lake Fire Insurance Company for six years. He was a Republican.[2]

He died on January 8, 1936, in Milwaukee.[3] He is buried in Forest Home Cemetery, in Milwaukee.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Eaton, Barney Augustus . USGenWeb Archives . 2011-10-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120421042612/http://files.usgwarchives.org/wi/history/bluebook/1905/bios/eaton364nbs.txt . 2012-04-21 .
  2. Book: Wisconsin Blue Book. 1903. 1,078.
  3. 'Funeral Rites Tomorrow For Barney Frank-First President of Cudahy Served in Legislature,' Milwaukee Sentinel, January 9, 1936, pg. 1