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A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and its People, Vol. III
by Alvah L. Sawyer
Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago - 1911

        [1386-1387]

        FRANK J. EATON. - One of the popular and progressive business
      men of the Upper Peninsula is Frank J. Eaton, who is general super-
      intendent of the three well equipped sole leather plants of the
      American Hide and Leather Company, and who is also vice-president of
      thePeoples' State Bank of Munising, which city with its fine harbor
      and thriving industries, is one of the important municipalities of
      northern Michigan.
        MR. EATON was born in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the
      25th of June, 1878, and is a son of BARNEY A. and CATHERINE (QUENTIN)
      EATON, the former of whom was born in Milwaukee county, Wisconsin,
      and the latter in Germany. They now reside at Cudahy, a thriving
      industrial town of Wisconsin, and the father is one of its most
      honored and influential citizens, being at the present time mayor of
      his home city and an ex-member of the state senate. He has been an
      influential factor in public affairs in Wisconsin for many years and
      has served as a member of its legislature for more than a decade. He
      is a stanch Republican in his political proclivities and is identi-
      fied with various fraternal and civic organizations of a represent-
      ative character. Of the six children five are now living and the
      subject of this sketch is the eldest child. MR. EATON, Sr., is
      engaged in the real estate business and is also the owner of fine
      farming properties in his home county.
        FRANK J. EATON is indebted to the public schools of the city of
      Milwaukee for his early educational training, which included a course
      in the high school, and he then entered the University of Wisconsin,
      in the city of Madison, from which fine institution he was graduated
      as a member of the class of 1904, with the degree of Bachelor of
      Arts. After leaving the University he assumed the position of chemist
      for the Pfister & Vogel Leather Company, of Milwaukee, and there
      gained practical experience in the tanning of sole and harness
      leathers. He was finally made assistant superintendent of the plant
      and held this position until 1907, when he went to Manistee, Michi-
      gan, and became general superintendent of the plant of the American
      Hide & Leather Company. This incumbency he retained until April,
      1909, when he took up his residence in Munising, where he assumed the
      general superintendence of the local plant of the Munising Leather
      Company, besides which he has charge of the plants at Manistee, this
      state, and Merrill, Wisconsin. The concern with which he is thus
      identified represents one of the important industrial enterprises of
      the Upper Peninsula and he is known as a capable executive and as a
      broad-minded and progressive business man. In 1910 he became one of
      the organizers of the Peoples' State Bank of Munising and he has been
      vice president of the same from the time of its organization.
        In politics MR. EATON is found aligned as a stalwart supporter of
      the cause of the Republican party and in the time-honored Masonic
      fraternity he has attained to the thirty-second degree of the Ancient
      Accepted Scottish Rite, in which his affiliation is with the Wiscon-
      sin Sovereign Consistory, the Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, in
      the city of Milwaukee. There also he is identified with Tripoli
      Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and
      in the York Rite of the fraternity his affiliations are still re-
      tained in the city of Milwaukee, where he holds membership in
      Damascus Lodge, No. 290, Free & Accepted Masons; Calumet Chapter, No.
      73, Royal Arch Masons; Wisconsin Council, No. 1, Royal & Select
      Masters; and Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 24, Knights Templar. He is also
      identified with the Alpha Chi Sigma College fraternity and his reli-
      gious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. MR. EATON is a
      bachelor.

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