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| | Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA USA |
 | | Eaton was born on June 8, 1787, in a home on what would become Eaton Square, the son of Percival Eaton, the owner of a popular grocery and general store, as well as Eaton Tavern. |
 | | Ebenezer Eaton not only owned and ran Eaton Hall, where everything from dances and Fourth of July parties to meetings of the local Union Lodge of Masons brought virtually everyone in town through his doors, but also served both his community and the state in a variety of public offices. |
 | | Eaton, a crusty Yankee to his dying day, represented a Dorchester that bloomed in the early days of the American Republic and came of age in the ensuing eras of the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War. |
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