GEORGE O. EATON. was born in Warren, Knox County, Maine, May 14, 1848; was educated at the public schools of Maine, the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and the Columbia College School of Mines, New York City. Served as private in Company "I" Fifteenth Maine Volunteers, in 1864-65, and as Second and First Lieutenant in Fifth United States Cavalry, 1873-81. During his service in the Regular Army his name was, upon two different occasions, sent by President U. S. Grant to the United States Senate, calling attention to "conspicuous gallantry" in Indian fights. During the last four years of his service in the Regular Army he was also engaged in the cattle business in Wyoming. Resigning from the army in 1881, he came to Montana, where he has since followed the business of mining. He was a member of the Montana Constitutional Conventions of 1884 and 1889, and a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago, 1888. He was appointed United States Surveyor-General for Montana by President Benjamin Harrison, in September, 1889. [The Montana blue book: a biographical, historical and statistical book of reference by Journal Publishing Co., 1891 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

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