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J. P. EATON, proprietor of livery establishment, Sewickley, is a native of this county. His parents, George and Sarah Eaton, who were Americans, of Scotch and German descent, settled in this county, near Clinton, about the beginning of this century. George Eaton’s name and the date of 1812 appear on his old barn. He died aged ninety-four years; his wife when aged eighty-three. They reared a family of eight children. Of these, Capt. Eaton was born in this county, near Clinton, and went on the river at an early age, “keelboating” for many years on the Ohio between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Subsequently he became a pilot, and later captain, and the owner of many boats, among them the Rambler, one of the oldest towboats of the Monongahela river. In 1859 he had his hand injured, and in 1860 he was elected prothonotary of Allegheny county by the republican party. After serving three years creditably he retired to his farm near Mansfield. Subsequently he engaged in the livery business, keeping stables in New Castle and Sewickley. He died in Allegheny, aged eighty-two years; his wife, nee Sarah Hood, died young, leaving eight children, who all attained maturity. J. P. Eaton, the subject proper of this memoir, was reared in this county, and at the age of fourteen years he went on the river, following it till 1868, when he embarked in commerce. In 1872 he commenced his present; livery business in Sewickley.