"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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EATON W. PAXSON was born in Warren County, Ohio, January 13, 1854. His
parents, William and Margaret (Shrack) Paxson, native of Virginia and
Pennsylvania respectively, and of Scotch, Irish and German extraction, were
married in Warren County, Ohio, in 1853. Thence, three years later, they
removed to Green Township, Morgan Co., Ind., and located on a farm of 160
acres, to which the father added 122 acres before his death, which occurred
June 26, 1883. The mother is now living on the home farm, seventy-two years
of age. Eaton W. Paxson is the elder of two sons, and was reared in Green
Township, Morgan County, where he received a good education. When twenty
years of age, he began teaching school. His first two years he taught in
Green Township. He then entered Valparaiso Normal College, and three years
later graduated. His is also a graduate of the commercial course there.
After this time until June, 1881, he farmed and taught school. He was then
elected County Superintendent on the Democratic ticket, and in 1883, having
faithfully served his term of office, he was re-elected and at present is in
discharge of the duties devolving upon him. Mr. Paxson is a member of the
A. F. & A. M., of the I. O. O. F. and also of the Encampment. In September,
1875, he was united in marriage to Mary E. Koons, a native of Morgan County,
and a daughter of James and Rebecca Koons, respected pioneers of Morgan County.
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