Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-01-30
The MEN OF VERMONT
rs, HORACE EATON.

the youngest man. that ever filled that oil
flee, being some two months younger than
Governor Paine was at the date OF his
election. He was born at Barnard, m the
County Of Windsor and State OF YER
mont, on the twenty-second day of june
1904, and graduated at Middlebury Col
lege in 1925.
Immediately after graduating at that
College, he took charge and was Precep-
tor of the Addison County Grammar
School for about a year. During his con-
nection with this school he commenced the
study of Medicine, >under the direction OF
Jonathan Adams Allen, NJ. d., an able
and learned practitioner OF Middlebury,
who was, also, at that time, Lecturer OF
Chemistry in Middlebury College He
terminated his connection with the Gram
mar School in 1926, and continued the
study of his profession with E. Eaton, M.
D., of Enosburgh, in Franklin County
He subsequently attended medical lectures
at the Vermont Academy of Medicine at
Castleton, where he graduated, receiving
the degree of Doctor Of Medicine, in
1928.
He then commenced the practice OF his
profession at Enosburgh, and remained
there, in active practice, except when en-
gagged in the discharge of the duties of the
several political offices to which he was
elected, till 1S4S, when he removed to
Middlebury.
In 1929, having resided in Enosburgh
but a single year, he was elected to repre-
sent that town in the General Assembly
of Vermont, and was reelected in 1880,
and again in 1885 and 1885. In 1887
he was elected to the Senate from Frank
lin County, and was again elected in 1889,
| and remained Senator from that COun
! tv till his election to the office of Lieuten-
ant Governor in 1843. At the opening
| Cf the session of the Senate in 1S41, he
was elected President, pro tempore, OF the
Senate, ga post for which few medical
men have either experience or especial
claims"
In the Constitutional Convention of
1843 he was an active member, being the
delegate from the town of Enosburgh, and
was several times called upon 10 preside
over their deliberations, as Chairman of
the Committee Of the Whole, to which
the several amendments Of the Coustitu-
ton had been referred.
lie was LIEUTENANT Governor under
the administration of Governor Mattocks
and Shade, and, as such, was the Presiding
Officer of the Senate. How well he dis
charged the delicate and arduous duties of
that station, may be seen by the following
extract from the Journal
"Mr. j. Barrett (of Woodstock) pre-
scented the following resolution which was
read: . ... .........
Resolred, That the accompanying pa
| per, Signed by every member OF the Sen
ate, and by the Secretary and Assistant
/ Secretary of the Senate, as expressive of
their sentiments towards the Hon. Hon
| ACE EATON, president of the Senate, be
read, a I'd th-,eupon be subject to the Or
der of the Senate. 49,. .,..
| Whereupon the PAPER accompanying
said resolution, and mentioned therein, was
I read and unanimously adopted, and is as
follows:
The undersigned, members of the Sen
ate of Vermont, avail themselves of the
near approach of the period when the re-
lations which have subsisted between them
and the Hon. HORACE EATON, during the
present session of the Legislature, will be
severed, TO express TO him, in some de-
gree, the feeling of respect, admiration and
confidence which his course as their Pre-
siding Officer has excited. They are
8. sensible that this proceeding is unusual ;
but so also are, in their opinion, the excel
lencies of the officer, as a slight tribute to
whom it is intended. They therefore de-
sire, in this permanent form, TO subscribe
this testimonial of their high appreciation
of the unassuming dignity, the unwearied
fidelity to his trust, the entire impartiality,
and the uniform and unceasing kindness
which have distinguished the course Of
the Honorable Horace EATON, as Pres
idtnt of the Senate, and which have made
delightful and easy the labors and duties
of the session." a aga +
During his last year, as Lieutenant
Governor, in 1S45, he was elected State
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