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Eastman, Helen, educator, artist, author, 22, 1863, in South Newbury,

was born March

In 1886-93 she and has since She is the author and Their Common

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was a teacher of paintbeen a nature student. of New England Ferns Allies.

Eastman, Ira A., lawyer, jurist, congressHe man, was born in New Hampshire. served in the New Hampshire state legislature; and was speaker of the house in 183739. He was register of probate; in 1844-59 was a judge of the circuit and the supreme courts; and in 1839-43 he was a representative from New Hampshire to the twentyHe sixth and twenty-seventh congresses. died in New Hampshire. Eastman, John Robie, astronomer, was born July 29, 1836, in Andover, N.H. In 1865 he was appointed professor of mathematics in the United States navy, with the relative rank of commander; and assigned to astronomical work in the United States He has acobservatory in Washington. companied various astronomical expeditions throughout the United States; and in 1870 was sent to Sicily, to observe the total eclipse of the sun. His most important work was the preparation of the Second Washington

Star Catalogue, containing the re-

of more than seventy-five thousand observations; about one -quarter of which were made by himself. He was retired from service United States navy in 1898 with the rank of captain. sults

Eastman, Julia Arabella, educator, author, was born July 17, 1837, in Fulton, N.Y. She is a Massachusetts teacher; and was the founder of the Dana hall school at Wellesley, Mass. She is the author of Short Comings and Long Goings; Young Rick; Kitty Kent's Trouble; and other juvenile tales. Eastman, Linda Anne, educator, librarian, was bom in 1867 in Oberlin, Ohio. In 187585 she was educated in the Cleveland public In 1885-93 she was a teacher in schools. the public schools of West Cleveland and aeveland, Ohio. In 1892-95 she was assistant in the Oeveland public library; in 18951905 she was assistant librarian and cataloguer in the Dayton public library of Ohio; and since 1896 has been vice-librarian in the Cleveland public library. Since 1905 she has also been an Instructor in the library school of the Western reserve university. She was a charter member and in 1903-04 was president of the Ohio library association. LitIn 1901 she was literary editor of the tle Chronicle.

Eastman, Macarthur Eastman, capitalist, was born June 8, 1810, in Gilmanton. He

mto introduced the patent spinning jenny England; sold patent of breech-loadmg canconnon to British government in 1856; and States tracted for firearms to the United diand other governments. He planned the

rect ocean cable, laid in 1874. 3, 1877, in Manchester, N.H.

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Eastman, Mrs. Mary Henderson,

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teur, author, was born in 1818 in Warrenton, Va. She is the author of Romance of Indian Life; Dacotah, or Life and Legends

of the Sioux; American Aboriginal Portfolio; Chicora and other Regions of the Conquerors and the Conquered; Tales of Fashionable Life; and Aunt Phillis's Cabin, a reply to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Eastman, Nehemiah, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1785 in Strafford county, N.H. He was a state senator in 1820-25; and in 1825-27 he was a representative from New Hampshire to the nineteenth congress. He died Jan. 11, 1850, in

Farmington, N.H. Eastman, Oman, clergyman, was born March 27, 1796, in Amherst, Mass. He was in the service of the American tract society in Boston in 1825-28. In 1828 he was transferred to New York, first as general agent for the Mississippi valley, and in 1832-70 as He died April 24, 1874, finance secretary. in New York City. Eastman, Philip, lawyer, jurist, author, was bom Feb. 5, 1799, in Chatham, N.H. He served as a commissioner to locate claims of settlers on the northeastern boundary of Maine. He published General Statutes of Maine in 1840; and a Digest of the

First

Twenty-Six Volumes

Reports in 1849. Saco, Maine.

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Maine Law

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Eastman, Samuel Coffin, lawyer, statesman, author, was bom July 11, 1837, in He was educated at the Concord, N.H. at Concord schools Rockingham academy; in 1857 he graduated with the degree of M.A. from the Brown university and was for a time assistant



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he graduated in law with the degree of LL.B. from Harvard law school. Since that time he has practiced law in Concord, N.H. and has made a specialty of insurance and corporation law. In 1895 he organized the Concord mutual fire insurance company, of which he has since been president. For the past ten years he has been president of the New Hampshire savings bank of Concord; and is a director In 1883 and in in various corporations. 1893 he was a representative in the New and was Hampshire state legislature; speaker of the house in 1883. He has been recording secretary and president of the New Hampshire historical society; and was a delegate to the universal congress of lawyers and jurists at St. Louis in 1904. He was part owner of the Monitor and the old