. History, genealogical and biographical, of the Eaton families. s the site of the Fillmore the older maps of the county indicate that aPresident was born in this vicinity. Many occupantsof that country-side to-day have no idea that a ChiefMagistrate of the Republic here first saw the present town of Summerhill was first known asLocke and then as Plato. The signer of the Compro-mise was born in a log cabin on either January 7 orFebruary 7, 1800, authorities differing as to the father was Nathaniel Fillmore, a native of Ben-nington, Vt., who moved to the far we
. History, genealogical and biographical, of the Eaton families. s the site of the Fillmore the older maps of the county indicate that aPresident was born in this vicinity. Many occupantsof that country-side to-day have no idea that a ChiefMagistrate of the Republic here first saw the present town of Summerhill was first known asLocke and then as Plato. The signer of the Compro-mise was born in a log cabin on either January 7 orFebruary 7, 1800, authorities differing as to the father was Nathaniel Fillmore, a native of Ben-nington, Vt., who moved to the far west of CayugaCounty soon after the Revolution. A bad title caused Nathaniel Fillmore to lose theland he had bought on a military tract and he movedto the farm in Summerhill which he held when hisson Millard was born. Two years later he movedagain. At fourteen years of age the future Presidentwas apprenticed in a woolen mill at Montville, a set-tlement about four miles west of his birthplace. Theboy was bright, and Judge Walter Wood, the first 56 EATON OEXEALOGY. NEGLECTED BIRTH-PLACE OF MILLARD FILLMORE county judge of Cayuga and owner of the woolen millaided him to get a legal education. However, it issaid that Judge Wood charged him $30 to relinquishhis services in the last year of his apprenticeship. YoungFillmore slept upstairs above the little law office atMontville and pursued his studies with ardor. Inthe old cabin home the library had consisted of twobound volumes. Tradition records that Fillmore de-veloped oratorical talent at an early age and deliveredthe local Fourth of July address in the year 1818. Itwas then predicted that he would make his mark. Nathaniel Fillmore evidently thought that Mont-ville was not big enough for his brilliant son, and DESCENDANTS OF FRANCIS EATON 57 around 1821 he sold his property and moved to Auroranear Buffalo. From that point on Fillmores recordis familiar to readers of American history. The log cabin homestead fell to pieces about the
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