Rachel Caroline Eaton

Rachel Eaton attended tribal schools and Cherokee Female Seminary in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She graduated Seminary in 1887, but during her senior year the building burned down. For college, Rachel attended Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, then went on to the University of Chicago, where she got her Ph.D.^[3] Her dissertation, John Ross and The Cherokee Indians, was published in 1921, as a Cherokee history book.

Rachel taught in public schools of Cherokee nation, Cherokee Female Seminary (the new building built after the fire), Lake Erie College in Painsville, Ohio, and the Industrial Institute and College of Columbus, Mississippi. She also was the Dean of Women at Trinity University in Waxahachie, Texas. In 1920, Rachel was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Rogers County, Oklahoma, for 2 consecutive years. In 1936, she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame as one of Oklahoma's outstanding women. Rachel died September 20, 1938, in Claremore, Oklahoma, after a long battle with breast cancer.