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HENRY JAMES EATON
was the son of James and Elizabeth (Caulkins)
Eaton. He was born Oct. 28, 1828, in Berlin Township,
Delaware Co., Ohio. James Eaton was for many years
surveyor of Delaware County and the early records of the county are
replete with his doings. He was very careful and particular
about his surveys and marking his corners, and his son, the subject of
this sketch, must have inherited much of his father's carefulness and
particularity. The family lived on a farm near Cheshire, in
Berlin Township, at the date of the son's birth. Henry J.
Eaton received his early education in the public schools of his
native township. The family removed to Delaware in the year 1844
and Henry J. soon entered the Ohio Weslyan University, from
which he graduated in the year 1849. He studied law with
Thomas W. Powell and was admitted to the Bar in the year 1853.
He began the practice in the city of Delaware and soon formed a
partnership with Colonel William P. Reid, for the practice of
law, which continued until the year 1866, when Mr. Eaton, owing
to failing health, was obliged to withdraw from the practice.
His health having improved, he again opened an office in the Reid and
Powell Block, where he continued his practice for many years. A
few years before his death he gave up his office, yet he continued his
practice up to a short time before his death. His clients went
to his home and met and consulted him there. Mr. Eaton
never aspired to become a trial lawyer and he seldom argued a case to
a jury, yet he was one of the most careful and technical lawyers at
the Delaware County Bar. He prepared his cases with the greatest
care and his opponent before the court never knew when he was to meet
some technical question which might put him out of the case.
Mr. Eaton never aspired to hold office; in fact,
he never held an elective office during the long period he practiced
law. Up to the summer of the year 1903, his many clients
continued to see him at his home, and he continued to see and meet
them in this quiet, easy way. He died September, A. D., 1903. |
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DR. J. EDWARDS is of
Welsh parentage. He took advantage of every opportunity, and
graduated from Starling Medical College, very young. He began
the practice at his old home, Delhi, or Radnor, and is now attending
to the afflicted. |
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