CLASS OF 1874

Edwin Gamage Eastman died June 20 at his home in Exeter, N. H., after an illness of three months.

The son of Rev. William Henry and Paulina Sibley (Winter) Eastman, he was born in Grantham, N. H., November 22, 1848, and fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa. At the end of junior year he left college, but was given his degree and en- rolled with the class in 1889.

In 1873-6 he studied law with Alonzo P. Carpenter of Bath, N. H., was admitted to the bar in 1876, and that year represented his native town in the legislature. In September, 1876, he entered the office of Gilman Marston '37 of Exeter, and in 1878 he became his partner. This relation continued until the death of the senior partner in 1890. The firm of Eastman, Young, and O'Neil was then formed, the second member being John E. Young '7B, now on the supreme bench. In 1898 this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Eastman became associated with Henry F. Hollis, now United States senator, with offices at Exeter and Concord. In 1902 the firm of Eastman, Scammon, and Gardner was formed, which continued till Mr. Eastman's death. His practice was large and lucrative, and he had unusual power with a jury.

Mr. Eastman was a state senator in 1889 and a member of the, constitutional convention of 1902. From 1883 to 1887 he was county solicitor. In 1892 he was appointed attorney general of the state, and held that office until his resignation in 1912. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican national convention, and in 1910 declined to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor.

He was director and vice-president of the Exeter Banking Company, trustee and vice-president of the Union Five Cents Savings Bank, president of the Exeter Manufacturing Company, director of the Boston and Maine Railroad Company, and trustee of Robinson Seminary.

March 12, 1877, Mr. Eastman was married to Elma E. Dodge of Newport, who died October 19, 1880, leaving one daughter. A second marriage, March 15, 1885, was to Morgie Anna Follansby of Exeter, who survives him, with a daughter and a son.