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Benjamin Harrison Eaton (December 15 1833 – October 29 1904) was an American politician entrepreneur and agriculturalist in the late 19th and early 20th century. Eaton was a founding officer of the Greeley Colony and was instrumental in the establishment of modern irrigation farming to Northern Colorado. A member of the Republican Party he served as the fourth Governor of Colorado from January 1885 to January 1887 with the nickname of the farmer governor.
