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Charles, Missouri; and documentation relating to the military career of Colonel Alton R. Easton.
Correspondents represented in this collection include Moses Austin, David Barton, Aaron Burr,
Daniel G. Bissell, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Alton R. Easton, Henry S. Geyer, Gideon
Granger, Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Lucas, James Madison, James Monroe,
William Russell, William T. Sherman, and John Smith T ("T" for Tennessee). In part photostats
and typescript copies.
Photostats of Easton letters may not be reproduced.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Cite as: Rufus Easton Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0431
Eaton, B.D.M. (1839-1919).
Papers, 1932. 2 folders (approximately 20 items)
B.D.M. Eaton was a newspaper man who came to St. Louis in 1850 and worked for several
different newspapers. He founded the Home Journal, which later was renamed the Hotel
Reporter.
Papers contain notes on St. Louis history—hotels, schools, Jefferson Barracks, road houses,
streets—1862-1863; local theatrical people, 1850-1869; Chouteau's Pond; and paper on the river
transportation problem.
Cite as: B.D.M. Eaton Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0430
Eaton, Alfred N., Family.
Papers, 1858-1911. 1 folder
Contains mostly genealogical papers of the Eaton, Dean, Flandrin, Drew, and Hollister
families. Includes plat (1858) and deeds (1858, 1922) for property at Poplar and Second Streets
in St. Louis owned by Francis Flandrin and transferred to his descendants; will of Alfred N.
Eaton (1893) and letters testamentary (1897); Eaton family correspondence (1911); and
genealogical data, including the extracts from Sarah Dean's family Bible and assorted obituaries.
Cite as: Alfred N. Eaton Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0432
Eaton, Lucien (1831-1890).
Papers, 1854-1892. 8 boxes; 45 volumes
Lucien Eaton was born September 24, 1831, in Canton, Massachusetts, and moved with his
family to Iowa while still a child. He graduated from Harvard Law School and settled in St.
Louis in 1858. He served as a sergeant in the 3rd U.S.R.C. (3 months) from May to August 1861,
and in July 1863 was commissioned captain in the 23rd Missouri Infantry and was on detached
service at St. Louis. In July 1864 he was commissioned major and judge advocate. After the
Civil War, he was appointed register in bankruptcy for the Eastern District of Missouri. He
married Emily Partridge of St. Louis in 1861, and after her death in 1872, married Hannah O.
Noyes of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1876. He had two sons, George Partridge and Frances
(Frank) H. Eaton, by his first wife; and three children, Clara, Lucien, Jr., and Theodore Eaton, by
his second wife. He died March 7, 1890, near San Antonio, Texas, and is buried in Bellefontaine
Cemetery in St. Louis.
Collection consists of the personal and business papers of Lucien Eaton, including four boxes
of family correspondence and personal papers, 1854-1891; and two boxes of records from
bankruptcy and estate cases. Also includes 37 volumes of letters received, 1858-1889; eight