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c THE MMVgR HATIOIOL BANK Denver, Colorado f, E. McClintock Executive Vic© President May 14, Horn John K. McKee Board of Governors Federal Reserve Sjystem Washington, D« C. Dear Johns Roblin Davis has just told me that jjrf paif JfafrpnT of Baton, Colorado, has been suggested for a Director of th© Denver Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City* c Mr. Eaton is about fori#-~fiv® years old, a graduate of the University of Illinois, and for the past fifteen years has been the operating head of the Eaton Investment Company, which farms approximately 2000 acres of our good Colorado irrigated land, I believe you met Mr. Eaton in Denver one time, and may reaember from RFC days that he took over the management of th© family holding company at a time when its affairs were somewhat involved, and has since made quite an outstanding success of the operation* Combined with its farming operations, the company feeds approximately 30,000 head of sheep and 1000 head of cattle each year* Mr* Eaton has teen a Director of the Denver Joint Stock Land Bank for the past seven years, and I have had an opportunity to judge his abilities intimately • I consider him a man of excellent character and ability, unusually well qualified for a Director from a standpoint of general business, and particularly as a representative of agriculture and the livestock industry, and feel certain that if he is selected, he will prove to be a credit to the System, With personal regards and all good wishes, I remain, as ever, Sincerely yours, (Signed) T. E. McClintock Vice President
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