His family was involved in politics, with his father serving as Roxbury's first town moderator and brother Daniel Adams Eames also holding political office in Roxbury before moving to Saugus.
[2] In 1809, Eames constructed a fulling mill below the Sluice Pond Dam in Lynn, Massachusetts.
He sold the mill in 1815 to silk dyers Andrew and John Hall of Malden, Massachusetts.
[3] In 1811, Eames' brother Joseph started a Morocco leather manufacturing business on the Saugus River.
[4] From 1815 to 1822, Eames leased the grist and saw mills previously owned by Benjamin Sweetser to manufacture dyewoods, principally camwood.