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Eaton Rapids is named after the youngest member ever to join the U.S. Senate, John Henry Eaton. Although the Constitution requires members to be at least 30, he joined at the age of 28.
Eaton Rapids was founded in 1838 by Amos and Pierpoint Spicer, Samuel Hamlin, C. C. Darling. It became a city in 1881.
Eaton Rapids was founded in 1838 by Amos and Pierpoint Spicer, Samuel Hamlin, C. C. Darling. It became a city in 1881.
Dams. Lots of dams and bridges!
Eaton Rapids is known as the Island City--the downtown area is completely surrounded by water, which makes traveling through it a bit tricky at times when Main Street is closed for construction.
Harlow Curtice, Time Magazine's 1955 Man of the Year was from Eaton Rapids
Curtice was born near Eaton Rapids, Michigan, on August 15, 1893, the son of Marion Joel and Mary Ellen Eckhart Curtice. He obtained his early schooling at Eaton Rapids, where classmates recall him as a freckled, serious boy who — in the words of one of them — "was quiet, modest and blushed easily and often." He was graduated from high school at Eaton Rapids.
He went on to become President of General Motors in 1953, and in 1955 was selected as Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1955.html
He went on to become President of General Motors in 1953, and in 1955 was selected as Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1955.html
The VFW National Home is in Eaton Rapids
GIFT TO VETERANS' WIDOWS.; Michigan Couple Present 472-Acre Farm for a Home. December 1, 1924, Monday
JACKSON, Mich., Nov. 30. -- Gift of a 472-acre farm near Eaton Rapids, 23 miles north of this city, was accepted by a committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, who inspected the farm yesterday. The donation was made by Corey J. Spencer and his wife, of Jackson, and the farm will be used as a home for widows and orphans of veterans of the wars of this country.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60D16FF3B5D17738DDDA80894DA415B848EF1D3
JACKSON, Mich., Nov. 30. -- Gift of a 472-acre farm near Eaton Rapids, 23 miles north of this city, was accepted by a committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, who inspected the farm yesterday. The donation was made by Corey J. Spencer and his wife, of Jackson, and the farm will be used as a home for widows and orphans of veterans of the wars of this country.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60D16FF3B5D17738DDDA80894DA415B848EF1D3
