The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-06
DEATH OF DIR. EASTMAN
HE PASSED AWAY AT JIPSON PLACE,
HIS COUNTRY HOME.
For Years He Had Been Widely
known as n Physician ard Sur
Reon-FamiIy Connections.

DR.. Joseph Eastman died last evening at
$50 o'clock at his country home, Jipson
Place, on Pennsylvania street, four miles
north of the city. His wife, his daughter,
Mrs Frank Day, and his sons Drs
Thomas and j. Rilus Eastman, were with
him and ne talked nationally to them short
ly before his death. The cause of death
was cancer of the liver. Less than a year
ago he consulted some of his friends
among the city's physicians in reference to
the partial exhaustion with which he had
been troubled. 1t was evident that the seat
of the trouble was the liver, and he de-
cided to take a rest. He spent the sum-
mer at Kagawong, Manitoulin islands,
Ontario. When he took up his work again
in the fall he became fatigued easily, and
a few months ago. in company with DR.. ].
Rilus Eastman, he went TO Florida, hoping
that the climate there would better his con-
! dition. He returned home, on March Is,
seriously i'll. Drs. S. E. carp and Frank
B. Wynn became his attendant physicians.
They called DR. Ferdinand Henrotin, Of
Chicago, to this city for consultation. and
month ago DR.. John B. Murphy, also of
Chicago. came at their request to examine
DR.. Eastman.
DR.. Eastman was sixty years old For
years he known abroad as well as in
the United States, as an authority in the
treatment of diseases of women and in b.
dominal surgery. He contributed many re-
ports of his operations to medical journals
and lecturec regularly at the Central Col
ege of Physicians and Surgeons. He con-
Quoted a sanitarium at Delaware and Yer
mont streets. His last public address was
| delivered at the University of George
! town. Washington, d. c., a year ago. He
had been member of the American Med-
| cal Association since 1872 He invented
several instruments, and in 1890 as a dele
| gate to the international Medical College
at Berlin, he introduced to the European
| surgeons his hysterectomy STAFF for the re-
moval of fibroid tumors In 1891 Wabash
| College conferred on him the degree of
| doctor of laws.
A LIFE OF HARD WORK.
| He born In Fulton county, New
York. His father. Rilus Eastman. had
| come from Massachusetts, and his mother
| Catherine Jipson. was a member of a
Dutch family that had settled in New
! York He was educated in the country
schools, and at the age OF nineteen he was
a horseshoer. He was one Of the organ
izers of Company F. Seventy-seventh Regi-
ment. New York Volunteers, at the out
| break of the civil war and went TO the
] front as a nOncOmmiSSiOned officer. After
| the battle OF Williamsburg he was stricken
| by fever and was taken TO Mount Pleasant
| Hospital at Washington. When he recov-
| cred he became a hospital steward and
| took three courses of lectures in medicine
| at the University of Georgetown. He re-
/ ceived his diploma as a physician in lS6;
| and was commissioned a surgeon in the
army. He served until 1866
He came 10 Indiana and lived at Cler.
mont and Brownsburg for several years
| and then studied Bellevue Hospital
! New York. He was graduated from that
| college I'm 1871. He came TO this city at the
| request of DIR. Parvin and was his assist
! ant for some time. He was one of the or.
| caniZers OF the Central College of Physi.
| clans and Surgeons. After 1886 he limited
| his practice TO the diseases of women and
| 10 abdominal surgery.
! DR.. Eastman was held in great respe ct
| at home While the State Medical Associa.
| ton meeting at Evansville recently il
! instructed a committee to send a letter OF
J sympathy TO him. The Marion County
| Medical Society passed resolutions of re
| spect for him few weeks ago. Whether
| or not his funeral will be private and wher
| IL will be held have not been decided
| The Marion County Medical Society viii
| meet this evening in its rooms, in the vii
! lOughby building, 10 adopt a memorial oil
Dr