1840 and later a judge. His step-brother John M. Gilman was a lawyer and politician in St. Paul, Minnesota; another step-brother, Marcus D. Gilman, a Chicago merchant and politician. Eaton married Annie S. Foster in 1856; they had no children. References New York (state) lawyers 1823 births 1899 deaths University of Vermont alumni Harvard Law School alumni People from Caledonia County, Vermont Writers from New York City Lawyers from New York City 19th-century American lawyers Civil service reform in the United States