Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Eastman, Dr. Henry March 16, 1826 - ????
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Marta Burns marta43@juno.com September 21, 2024, 12:09 pm

Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 546
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Dr Henry Eastman is a son of Nehemiah Eastman and Anstriss B Woodbury
Eastman and was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, March 16, 1826.
    His grandfather, Ebenezer Eastman of Scotch Irish extraction, was a son
of one of the pioneer settlers of New Hampshire and served as a captain
at Bunker Hill in the War of the Revolution, shortly after which he was
accidentally killed.  Hon Nehemiah Eastman, son of Ebenezer and the father
of Dr Henry Eastman, was born in New Hampshire, was a prominent lawyer of
that State and was elected by the whigs to Congress in 1826 where he
served his constituents most creditably.  
    His son, George N Eastman, is also a prominent lawyer of New Hampshire,
and served for several years in the legislature of that State.  
    Nehemiah Eastman married Miss Anstriss B Woodbury, a daughter of  Peter
Woodbury, a prominent merchant of Francestown, New Hampshire, whose
father, James T Woodbury, was a native of England and an officer under
General Wolfe at the capture of Quebec.  One of her brothers was Levi
Woodbury, a distinguished statesman and jurist of national reputation,
and at one time secretary of the navy under President Van Buren, and was
afterwards appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States by President James K Polk, and died while on the bench.
    Dr Henry Eastman was educated in the common schools and at the Gilmanton
Academy of New Hampshire.  Read Medicine and graduated from Jefferson
Medical College in 1847.  Shortly after graduating he came to Merrittstown
and entered upon the practice of his profession.  His expectation was to
remain only a short time but his practice became so extensive and
lucrative that he finally abandoned the idea of removal, and has since
continued at Merrittstown, successfully in the practice of medicine.  He
is one of the most widely known physicians in the county.
    In 1853 he married Miss Mary E Porter, daughter of Moses B Porter and
Mary Wilson Porter, whose ancestors were among the early settlers of the
county.  
    They have had seven children: Anstriss W Eastman married to A R Struble,
a prosperous farmer of Luzerne township; Thomas N Eastman, a practicing
physician of Merrittstown and a graduate of Washington and Jefferson
College, read medicine and graduated at Jefferson Medical College; Anna M
Eastman married to Dr J S Hackney of Uniontown; Martha J Eastman, dead;
Henry Eastman, Ellen M Eastman and Nora Blanche Eastman.  
    Dr and Mrs Eastman are both respected members of the Dunlap's Creek
Presbyterian church.  

Additional Comments:
Originally submitted 2000.

This file has been created by a form at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pafiles/

File size: 3.2 Kb