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Burt Winslow Eaton PA [Parents] [scrapbook] was born 29 Sep 1854 in Gerry, Chautauqua Co, New York, USA. He died 9 Feb 1940 in 522 S. W. Third St, Rochester, Olmsted Co, Minnesota, USA and was buried 11 Feb 1941 in Oakwood Cemetery, Rochester, Olmsted Co, Minnesota, USA. Burt married Ella B. Butler on 15 Jan 1896.
Burt was employed Lawyer.
Source:
History of Olmsted County Minnesota, by Joseph Leonard, 1910, p. 331-32.
Burt Winslow Eaton, for many years one of the ablest members of the Rochester bar, was born Semptember 29, 1854, in Chautauqua county, New York.
He has made his home in Rochester practically his entire life. After graduating from the Rochester High School he read law under the direction of Charles C. Willson, was admitted to the bar, December 5, 1879, and began the practice of his profession with Frank B. Kellogg under the firm name of Kellogg & Eaton. October 1, 1887, this association was dissolved by the removal Mr. Kellogg to St. Paul, and since that time Mr. Eaton has continued the practice alone. In politics he is a Democrat, and, although he has occupied official positions, is in no sense politician. He has served as county attorney, city recorder, mayor of Rochester and his incumbency of those positions was characterized by ability and thoroughness. He ranks amoung the ablest lawyers of the State of Minnesota. Mr. Eaton is Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine and a Knight of Pythias, and is also prominently identified with other commercial and benevolent organizations of Rochester.
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