History of Boerne, (Kendall County) Texas United States of America

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Lucien Eaton, lawyer, was born in Denmark, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1831. He was graduated from Iowa college in 1855 and from Harvard law school in 1857, being admitted to the bar of Massachusetts the same year. He removed to St. Louis, Mo., in 1858 and began practice. Early in 1861 he entered the Union army and was commissioned captain in 1863. On July 25, 1864, he was appointed judge advocate for the department of Missouri, with the rank of major, acting as a court of appeal from the decisions of the various military courts and commissions, having headquarters at St. Louis, Mo. In 1867 he was appointed register in bankruptcy for the eastern federal judicial district of Missouri, and held the position for many years. He was police commissioner for St. Louis county, 1866-90, and United States commissioner, 1863-90. On Jan. 2, 1875, he was made special U.S. commissioner of Alabama claims. He was admitted to practice in the United States supreme court, Feb. 26, 1875, and in 1876 was retained as one of the counsel for the government in the whiskey ring trials. He edited and managed the Southern Law Review, which later absorbed the Western Jurist and the American Law Review, taking the name of the latter. He received the degree of A.M. from the University of Iowa in 1865. He died at Boerne, Texas, March 7, 1890.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Boerne, (Kendall County) Texas

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