Charles Aubrey Eaton (1868 - 1953)

Born 29 Mar 1868 in Pugwash, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Winifred (Parlin) Eaton — married 26 Jun 1895 (to 1948) in Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 23 Jan 1953 at age 84 in Washington, D.C.

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Biography

Charles was born on Mar 29, 1868 to Stephen Eaton and Mary Desiah Parker in Pugwash, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. He married Mary Parlin of Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts in 1895, and the couple had six children (see below).

Children were born in Toronto, Ontario, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, Cleveland, Ohio and New Jersey. Charles's duties as a pastor required him to live in Massachusetts and Ohio before settling in New Jersey to serve as pastor at Madison Avenue Baptist Church in NYC.

Children born to Charles Eaton and Mary Parlin:

• Marion Aubrey 1896-1990
• Margaret Evelyn 1897-1940
• Frances Winnifred 1899-1961
• Charles Aubrey Jr. 1901-1983
• Mary Rose 1904-1984
• Catherine Starr 1910

Charles moved his family to North Plainfield, Somerset, New Jersey, in 1908, to a part of the borough that became Watchung, Somerset, New Jersey in 1926. He built a home there and also owned a dairy farm (Sunbright Farms).

In 1924, Charles was elected to represent New Jersey in the U. S. House of Representatives. He represented the states's 4th District (1925-1933) and, as a result of redistricting, the state's 5th District (1933-1953).

He was one of the signers of the original United Nations Charter, June 26, 1945, in San Francisco.

He died in Washington, D. C., on January 23, 1953. He is buried at Hillside Cemetery, Scotch Plains, Union, New Jersey.

Sources

• Vital Statistics of Nova Scotia 1763-1957
• Marriage - June 26, 1895 at Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts - record #220, Film #1651244, Digital Folder #5332371, Image #00307
• Vital Records of New Jersey
• Find a Grave Memorial #4260
• hhennigar.ca 0person ID I51561 Family F6400
• The Eaton Family pg. 87
• Descendants of John Whitman, Charles Henry Famam page 786
• The Eaton Family, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton page 140
• Eaton, Charles E., The Nova Scotia Eatons: 1760-1975, self-published, 1979
• "Charles Aubrey Eaton," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Aubrey_Eaton, accessed 2 September 2020
• Converse, Philip E. & Eaton, William H., An Eight-Generation Genealogy of the Eatons of Salisbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, Willow Bend Books, 2004