Rev. S. W. Eaton From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 888 - 889.

LANCASTER

REV. S. W. EATON, Pastor of Congregational Church; is a native of Framingham, Middlesex Co., Mass., and was born Dec. 25, 1820; he grew up to manhood in that State. After receiving his preparatory education, he entered Yale College and graduated in Class of 1842; pursued his theological studies in Yale Theological Seminary and in Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and was ordained Jan. 28, 1848. He came West to Wisconsin in 1846 (while it was yet a Territory in October, 1846), and accepted a call to become Pastor of the Congregational Church of Lancaster, Jan. 1, 1847, and since then, for a period of over one-third of a century, he has served as the faithful, acceptable Pastor of this church. In 1856, he took a vacation on account of ill health and went abroad, spending a part of the year in Europe. In 1862, he was Chaplain of the 7th W. V. I., and remained in the service three years until the close of the war, and was at Appomattox Court House at the final surrender. During his absence, the church had no settled Pastor; in fact, Dr. Eaton was the first Pastor of the church and its only one, and this church was his first charge and his only one; and there are very few churches in this country where the relations between Pastor and people have been so pleasant and undisturbed for so great a length of time. On the 20th of May, 1847, Dr. Eaton was united in marriage to Miss Catharine E. Demorest, a native of the city of New York. They have four sons, James Demorest, Pastor Congregational Church, Bound Book, N. J.; Edward Dwight, Pastor Congregational Church, Oak Park, Ill.; Samuel Lewis, physician; Charles Woodhull, physician, Des Moines, Iowa.

 


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