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Rh of the diocese. On his death he bequeathed his property to domestic missions in Massachusetts, to the endowment of the Protestant Episcopal theo- logical school at Cambridge, and to the American Bible society. He edited, with notes, Thornton's " Family Prayer" (New York, 1836), and published " B\)ur Lectures on Hebrew, Latin, and English Poetry," delivered before the New York Athenteum (1825) : part of a volume of " Essays and Disserta- tions on Biblical Literature " (1829) ; " Lectures on the Epistles to the Philippians" (1883); and "Ora- tion at the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of Colum- bia, College" (1837).

KASTiMAN, Charles Gamage, poet, b. in Prye- burg. Me., 1 June, 181G ; d. in Burlington, Vt., in 18C1. He early went with his parents to Bar- nard, Vt., was educated at Royalton academy, Windsor, and at Burlington, and was graduated at the Universi- ty of Vermont in 1837. While a student he wrote editorials for the Burling- ton " Sentinel." He founded the " Lamoille Riv- er Express " at Johnson, Vt.. in 1838, established the "Spirit of the Age " at Wood- stock, Vt., in 1840, and pur- chased the "Ver- mont Patriot " and removed to Montpelier in 1846. He was postmaster at Wood- stock and Montpelier for several years, and a mem- ber of the state senate in 18ol-'2. He published a volume of poems delineating the rural life of New England, marked by a high degree of meti'ical finish (Montpelier, 1848). was a contributor of poetry to reviews and magazines, and read poems at the LFniversity of Vermont and at Dartmouth and other colleges.

EASTMAN, Harvey Gridley, educator, b. in Marshall, Oneida co., N. Y., 16 "Nov., 1832 ; d. in Denver, Col., 13 July. 1878. He opened a commer- cial school in St. Louis in 1855, and four yeai's later the Eastman national business college at Pough- keepsie, N. Y. Beginning with one pupil, the col- lege in 3. short time included 1,600 students, occu- pied five large buildings, and employed more than sixty instructors. In 1871, and again in 1873, Mr. Eastman was elected to the New York assembly, and he also served three terms as mayor of Pough- keepsie. Many public improvements in that city were due to his energy and liberality.

EASTMAN, John Robie, astronomer, b. in Andover, N. H., 29 July, 1836. He was graduated at the Chandler scientific department of Dart- mouth in 1862, and in 1877 received the degree of Ph. D. from that college. In February, 1865, he was appointed professor of mathematics in the U. S. navy, with the relative rank of commander, and assigned to astronomical work in the U. S. ob- servatory in Washington. He has accompanied various astronomical expeditions throughout the United States, and in 1870 was sent to Syracuse, Sicily, to observe the total eclipse of the sun that took place on 22 Dec. of that year. Besides being a member of various scientific societies, he has since 1879 been a fellow of the American associa- tion for the advancement of science, and was its general secretary in 1883. The results of his as- tronomical investigations have appeared in the yearly volumes of the U. S. naval observatory, which from 1872 till 1882 were edited by him.

EASTMAN, Julia Arabella, author, b. in Ful- ton, N. Y., 17 July, 1837. She became a successful teacher, and, with her sister, Sarah, opened in 1880 the Dana Hall preparatory school for students en- tering Wellesley college. She has published ju- venile story-books, among them " Short Comings, and Long Goings" (Boston, 1869); " Beulah Rom- ney " (1871) ; and " Young Rick " (1875) ; also many articles and short poems in newspapers.

EASTMAN, Macarthur Eastman, capitalist, b. in Gilmanton, N. H., 8 June, 1810; d. in Man- chester, N. H., 3 Sept., 1877. While engaged in the manufacture of woollen goods at Roxbury, Mass., he acquired an interest in a patent spinning- jenny, which he introduced into England, and in 1856, after the beginning of the Crimean war, he secured the patent of a breech-loading cannon and sold it to the British government. At the begin- ning of the civil war he contracted for the manu- facture of a large number of carbines, and subse- quently furnished fire-arms to the United States and foreign governments. In 1869 he planned the direct ocean cable, an enterprise which required a capital of $6,500,000 in gold, and which was met from the first by a powerful corporate opposition. He secured the needed legislation after nearly five years of effort, and the cable was laid, the Ameri- can end being landed at Rye Beach in July, 1874

EASTMAN, Oman, clergyman, b. in Amherst, Mass., 27 March, 1796: d. in New York city, 24 April, 1874. He was graduated at Yale in 1821. After completing his theological studies at Andover in 1824, he was for a year an agent of the Ameri- can board of commissioners for foreign missions, and then entered the service of the American tract society in Boston, where he remained from 1825 to 1828. In the latter year he was transferj-cd to New York, first as general agent for tlie Mississippi val- ley, and from 1832 as finance secretary, which office he continued to fill till he retired in 1870.

EASTMAN, Philip, jurist, b. in Chatham, N. H., in February, 1799 ; d. in Saco, Me., 7 Aug., 1869. Pie was graduated at Bowdoin in 1820, studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Paris, Me., in 1823. He practised law at North Yarmouth, Me., in 1823- '36; at Harrison, Me., in 1836-'47; and at Saco in 1847-'69. He was a member of the Maine senate in 1840-'2, a commissioner to locate the claims of settlers on the noi'theastern boundary of Maine under the Washington treaty in 1842-'3, and for five years subsequently commissioner lor Cumber- land county. He published " General Statutes of Maine," as chairman of a legislative committee for that purpose (1840), and a digest of the first twenty- six volumes of the " Maine Law Reports " (1849).

EASTMAN, Sanford, physician, b. in Lodi, Seneca co., N. Y.. in 1821 ; d. in Riverside, San Bernardino co., Cal., 8 Jan., 1874. He was graduated at Amherst in 1841, spent a few years in teaching and agricultural pursuits, then studied medicine, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Buffalo in February, 1851. He began to practise in Buffalo, and was in 1858 appointed to the professorship of anatomy in the university, to which was added in 1867 that of clinical surgery, which position he resigned in 1870. He was health-officer of the city in 1861-'7. and in 1871 a member of the Board of state charities. Later in the same year he removed to California.