During the Grover Cleveland Presidency, he served as a United States Consul in Canada.
In 1841, he left school to become an apprentice to George H. Hazleton, brother of another Flint Mayor, Porter Hazelton.
[3] Eddy was in the lumbering business with Artemus Thayer operating a planing mill.
Soon afterwards, his son Arthur Jerome Eddy managed and edited the Democrat.
His son married Lulu Orrell, the granddaughter of Henry H. Crapo, a Governor of Michigan.