Spouse:
Rosalia Elvira Mosher (married on November 11, 1866)
Children:
Five children: Hortense R., Marcus Phillip, Frances E., Gertrude, and Calvin Eaton
Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature:
He came to Minnesota in 1859.
He was the first doctor in Fillmore County. (Minnesota Medicine, March 1946-March 1948)
He was an amateur geologist and several fossils (a gastropod and a trilobite) were named in his honor by the Official Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota in the 1890s.
He was a member of several fraternal organizations including the Masons, Oddfellows, and Elks.
He died in Austin, Minnesota.
Religion, family information, birth place, exact birth and death dates, death place, and several biographical details were provided by a relative.