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EASTMAN


EASTMAN


was ordainod a deacon and suljmoquontly a priest. Ue was assistant minister in Clirist eliurcli, New- York, l{:*.i"2-27, and rector of the Church of the Ascension. iy27-l".2. He was elected assistant bishop of Miissiichusetts and consecrated, Dec. 21), 1H42, the diocese at that time inchiding also Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Islaml. Early in 1843 he succeeded the )it. Rev. Alexander Viets Griswold as bishop. Bishop Eastburn's brother, James Wallis (born Sept. 2G, 1797, died Dec. 2. ISI'.t), was graduated from Columbia in 181(5. was ordained a Protestant Episcopal clergy- man. Oct. 20. 1S18, and was the author of " O Holy. Holy. Holy Lord! " and other poems and hymns. Bishop Ejistburn bequetithed his prop- erty to charitable and religious organizations. He published: l-'our Lertuirs on IJehreir, Latin and Enijli.th Ptnlnj (18'2."j); Esxays and Dissertatio)is on Bihlind Littrature {\S2Si) \ Lrctures on the Epistles t» the rhillij'idHs (1833); an edition of Thornton's Family Praijer (1836); and Oration at the Semi- Cmtennial Anniversary of Columbia College (1837). He die.l in Boston, Mass., Sept. 11, 1872.

EASTMAN, Austin Vitruvius, lawyer, was born in Broome county, X.Y.. Aug. 27, 1839; son of Natiianiel Webster and Mary (Stebbins) East- man; and descendant of Roger Eastman, who came to New England in 1638. He was fitted for college at Aurora academy, entered Hamilton in 186it, enlisted in Companj' H, l.st N.Y. volunteers, and served as lieutenant in the civil war until wounded at the battle of Chantilly. He was grad- uated from Albanj' law school, 1865, and became prominent in the legal profession in Iowa and in St. Paul, Minn. He was married in October, 186."3, to Mary Scoville, great-granddaughter of Capt. Reuben Ballon of Cumberland, R.I. As attorney and general manager for several large English .syndicates, he bore an active part in developing the resources of the northwest and southwest during the last quarter of the nine- teenth century. He became interested in pro- moting southern indu-stries and in 1899 was head of the Xortli American land and timber companj^, Lake Charles, La.

EASTMAN, Charles Rochester, paleontolo- g^.st, was born in Cedar Rapiils, Iowa, June 3, 1868; son of Austin V. and Mary (Scoville) East- man; grand.son of Nathaniel Weljster Eastman; and a descendant of Rt)ger Eastman, who came to New England in 1638. He was graduated from Harvard in 1890, A.M., 1891. He studied natural science at Harvard, Johns Hopkins imi- versity and abroad, receiving the degree of Ph. D. from Munich in 1894. He served for a time on the United States and the Iowa State geological surveys, tauglit geology and paleontology at Harvard university and Radcliffe college from 1804. and was placed in charge of vertebrate


paleontology in the Agassiz museum at Harvard college. He was married in 1S!)2 to Caroline A., daughter of Alvan Q. Clark, the well-known as- tronomer and telescope maker. He is the author of various papers on fossil vertebrates, especially (islies, and editor of the English translation of Von Zittel's Paleontolofjy.

EASTMAN, Elaine Goodale, educator, was born in:\It. Wasliington, Mass., Oct. 9, 1863; daugliter of Henry Sterling and Dora Hill (Read) Goodale; granddaughter of Chester Goodale; and a descendant of Robert Goodale of Salem, Mass. (1632). She was taught at home chiefly by her mother, and about 1873 began to write poems for a small paper established by herself and her sister, Dora Read, for the entertainment of the family. Elaine was the editor and copied the compositions of various members of the family. A selection from this pajier was pub- lished in the *S'^ Xirholas magazine for December, 1877. She taught in the Hampton institute, and edited the Indian department of the Southern Worknianin 1883. She became an instructor in an Indian school in Dakota, in November, 1886. and in 1890 was made inspector of Indian schools of Soutli Dakota. At Pine Ridge agency she met Charles Alexander Eastman, a graduate of Cornell and a Sioux physician whom she married June 18, 1891, and together they returned to their work among the Indians. They afterward made tiieir home in Washington, D.C. She contributed to various periodicals articles on the Indian question, and with her sister jniblished four volun)es of poems: Ajyple Blossoms (1878); In Berkshire With the WildFloivers{\S7dy, All Round the Yecir{\8S0); Verses from Ski/ Farm (1880). She is also the author of Journal of a Farmers Daughter (1881),

EASTMAN, George, inventor, was born in WaterviUe. N.Y., July 12, 1854; son of George W. and Maria (Kilbourne) Ea.stman. As an amateur photographer, he invented dry plates and began to manufacture them for sale in 1880; later he in- vented the kodak camera, and organized the East- man Kodak Company, of Rochester, N.Y., of wliit-li he is treasurer and general manager.

EASTMAN, Harvey Qridley, educator, was born in ]\Iarsliall, N.Y., Nov. 16, 1832. He estab- lislied a commercial school in St. Louis, Mo., in 1855, which was successful. In 1859 he re- moved to Poughkeepsie. N.Y., where he ojiened a similar school and at the end of one year he occupied as college buildings two churches and a large hall, and at the end of the third year had five large buildings known as the Eastman na- tional business college and employed over sixty instructors. His system was that of actual business and he maintained well-organized banks, commercial houses and exchanges and u.sed all the parai)hernalia of well-conducted busi-