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EATON. EATON. 195 Mr. Dyer has been selectman, overseer of the poor, assessor, member of the school board, and justice of the peace; he has been a member of the parish committee of the Congregational church in Truro for several years. He has been moderator of the town meetings for more than twenty-five years. At twelve years of age he went to sea, and at twenty-four commanded a vessel, and at one time was in the employ of the United States Government, as contractor for removing rock from Wellfleet harbor, and building a dike at Beach point.

Mr. Dyer, during his long and honorable career, has always contributed to those movements tending to improve and enlarge the usefulness of his native town, and is justly held in high repute by his fellow-townsmen.

EATON, CHESTER W., son of Lilley and Eliza (Nichols) Eaton, was born in South Reading (now Wakefield), Middlesex county, January 13, 1839.

His father, Hon. Lilley Eaton, was the historian of the towns of Reading and Wakefield.

He was an attendant at the district schools and high school of his native place; fitted for the Chandler scientific department of Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1859. He then studied for the legal profession at the Harvard law school.

He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1864, and immediately commenced the practice of the law in South Reading. In 1868 he opened another law office in Boston, still retaining that in South Reading. In 1880 he added the business of publisher and editor of the "Wakefield Citizen and Banner." To this was joined a real estate business, in 1886.

Mr. Eaton was married in Rye, N. H., May 14, 1868, to Emma C, daughter of Rev. Giles and Elizabeth (Thompson) Leach. Of this union were three children: Richard Gardner, Theodore, and Emma Florence Eaton.

Mr. Eaton has held the following offices: town clerk, town collector, member of the school board, trustee of the public library, justice of the peace and notary public (twenty-five years), trial justice, and treasurer of the Wakefield Savings Bank.

During the war of the rebellion he served as a private in the 50th Massachusetts regiment, engaging in the campaign ending in the surrender of Port Hudson, La.

EATON, EVERETT J., son of William and Sally (Johnson) Eaton, was born in Needham, Norfolk county, December 23, 1837.

He obtained his education in the common schools of his native town. After leaving school he worked a year in a provision store in Boston.

Two years he was in the employ of his brother as assistant at the post-office and station of the Charles River Branch Railroad, and afterwards six years in the express, freight and livery business. He then, in 1S64, went into the livery and express business for himself, and has continued in the express business between Needham and Boston up to the present time.

He is an active man of affairs, and is not confined in his operations to this business alone. He is a well-known auctioneer, and constantly interested in some progressive movement promising to benefit his town and county. He is a member of the