The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-03-21
Hon. Jocl Eastman.

Jndge Eastman died st Centre Conway, N. H. 90
Sunday, the 10th inst, aged SO. He was born as
Salisbury, N. H., February 22, 179S.
Ebenezer Webster and Edward Eastman, whs
were selectmen Of Salisbury together during tho
Revolution, also Cousins the for ner the faith
er of Daniel Webster and the latter the grand fAlA
or of Joel lEastman.-Between the last named kinp.
men, there was a striking resemblance In face and
figure, and in their intellectual characterist cs
wide unliseness. Their lives some hat in par
allel lines shey grew up in he name neighbofhood,
both educated at Dartmouth College, studied Law
profession in heir native State and the began
aud finish his active life unter the shadow Of the
same mountains that looked down upon the other
In the beginning Of his tustriOus career.
In the Harrison campaign of 1S4o, Mr.. Eastman
accompanied Mr.. Webster in canvass NOf several
New England States, making meanwhile an abls
speech in Faneuil Hall, and to Mr.. Webster person.
ally lie indebted for his appointment as District
Attorney of New Hampshire in S4i.
With Ezekiel Webster he intimately assocIa-
ted during his short life, and he was q witness d
his sudden and untimely death. Not long since he
described the scene in the Court House at Concord;
while Mr.. Webster WAS speaking earnestly and elo-
quently without a moments warning, he fell like q
marble statue to the floor; and in the midst Of the
confusion that followed a surgeon with open lancet
10 and rushed forward, with earnest haste Jump.
ing the rail an puncturiag vein but all to pur-
pose as life had departed.
By nature, and almost instinctvely, he was a pol
ttcian and sta esman, an in the consideration and
discussion Of high national topics he found his ohsf
enjoy ment. occasionally tmpulsive ami i'm
peJuous, he was always deliberate and diglihed in
his pubic utterancss, and as orator was pJWor-
ful and comm tnding. Men OF half his ability and
opportunity have managed to secure ssats in th@
House and senate at Washington; but prefesrinK ~
he did the leisure of country lite the quiet Of home
md the cultivation of his fields to the turmoil OF
the polite Al arena, he failed TO obtain both theeo
oslnons, for which he was more than once persusd-
cd TO De candidate. 10 his town aud SJAts how
ever he render ed large service in the various Offices
he filled: as reprt sentative to the legislature dele
gale to the constitutional convention, president OF
the electoral college aud judge OF prO0a'e for term
II twelve years, and TO this may be added, eeO-d
of fidelity to his arty for forty years in their Ma
,ional Conventions; dating from the Harrison WhiK
Convention of lS40, TO the Garfield Republican
Convention of 1880.
Living on the border of two states and alwayv
loyal to his native state his social and business re-
lations however, brought him often into Maine At
the time OF his death. ne was the President of the
board of trustees OF Fryebutg Acadsmy and had
oceup ed the position for Chi " six years-ths same
institution in which Daniel Webster Vas PreceptOr
IN lSOz. Interested In the prosperity of Portland
ne Mas an arly aud liberal nL'ibutor t the p 8
y H. H. and Tor several years ono of the directors:
chosen the last tiue, but month or two ago.
Judge Eastman lived and died on the estate which
came to him by his wife not long after his settle
neat in Conway "a 1927. She was the daughter Of
hon. Richard Odell who WAS a repre-, enta,iye and
Councillor, and the sister Of Judge L ~ dell OF
portsmouIh who di at Portland u year since.
MIS-. Eastman never recovered from the loss of
tnelf only child VINO died in infancy until death
gave relief
or sturdy and vigorous stock; his mother reach
ing tue r-tnarkabie age OF one hundred ard nTe
years, Judge la tman seemed TO have tn proepece
oil life as long but after ralying slightly r. m a
severe affection of the lungs he a. length welded 70
a short aud sudden summons, apparensiy OF angina
psctors.
A nephew and adopted son. Joel Eastman Nor
rll who for sever j Years has resided with his un.
Gle, receives LIS estate by his last testament.