CLASS OF 1883
Dr. Oliver Davis Eastman died at his home in Woodsville, N. H., March 27, 1922, of cancer, after a long illness.
The son of Oliver and Emily (Eastman) Davis, was born in Sonora, Cal., July 8, 1858. He came to Newbury, Vt., at the age of five years, and made his home with his maternal grandparents, taking their name. He attended Newbury Seminary, and studied medicine with Dr. Henry P. Watson (D. M. C. '67) of North Haverhill, N. H., and at Dartmouth.
In November, 1882, he began practice at Piermont, N. H., removing to Woodsville in 1886. Health began to fail him about five years before his death, and he went to Muskegon, Mich., and entered upon lighter duties in the office of his son, Dr. Burns Eastman. About eight months after his arrival there his son entered military service, and he was left to carry on the work alone, which he did until February, 1920, when he was obliged to give up work and return to Woodsville.
December 14, 1882, he was married to Addie D. K. Davis of Haverhill, N. H., who survives him. Five sons were born to them, of whom four survive, three of them being physicians .
