Seward daily gateway., 1932-03-15
GEORGE EASTMAN. KODAK KING, ENDED
 HIS LIFE MONDAY
MANUFACTURERS AND BIG GAME HUNTER SAID LIFE TASK
 WAS COMPLETED

ROCHESTER, N. r., Mar. 15. (P)- George Eastman, manutacturer, philanthropist and big game hunt CT, aged TT years, committed sui eide Monday by shooting himself. He left a note saying: My work is done. I pass on."
 Dr. Audley Stewart, personal phy- sician, said George Eastman, cam era magnate who shot himself to death through the heart, feared in validism; that he had been i'll for a long time and had been thinking for several months of shielding.
 The philanthropist gave away s1OO, 100000 during his lifetime. His nearest relative is Mrs. George Dryden, a niece, at Evanston, III.
 Arrangements are being made for a cremation funeral.
 Eastman was born at Waterville, Oneida county, on July 12, 1854, the son of George Washington and Maria Kilbourn Eastman. He never married.
 His father was pioneer in the establishment of business college, but the decline of the institution after his fathers death neceSsi- tated that the future camera man. ufacturer leave school when IA and go to work He entered real es- tate office as errand boy at $3 a week, using part of the salary for the Spport of his mother and two sisters. A year later he entered the employment of an insurance firm and in 1874 became a bookkeeper in the Rochester Savings Bank. By 1880 he had saved $5,OOO and this formed the capital for his entry into business on his own account.
 He had eXperimented with anna Ceur photography, studying with professional photographer and ex- perimenting himself during vaca- 5ions and in his spare time. His mothers kitchen was his first lab 0ratOry, and there he improved upon the dry plates commonly in lse. In 1879, he decided to begin commercial manufacture and with one helper, in a room over a State Street music store, his factory" was started.
 The story of George Eastman is the story of the modern camera. It is also the story of modern phi 4anthropy. Eastman gave vast sums of money to various institutions and among the institutions receiv- ing benefits from him were the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, the University of Roches- ter, TuSkegee Institute, the Hamp- -on Institute, the Rochester Dental Dispensary, the Rochester War Chest and Community Fund, the Rochester Chamber of Commerce Building.
 Eastman did not invent the cam era-he simplified, improved and oopularized it.
 He developed dry plates, making It possible to use the camera with put quick access to developing re- sources. He developed the bromide paper which has become standard m the industry. With others, he developed the roll film and the roll 1lim-holder, thus further sirnpli- flying the camera and extending it's scope outside the laboratory.
 A few years later he simplified the camera itself and then con- ceived his own name for it. kodak"
 MT. Eastman's hours of recrea- ton found him hunting, fishing or camping. He was fond of the theatre. He liked to direct work on his North Carolina farm and he took sheer delight in camping and particularly in camp cooking. In 1926, he started on a trip to Africa, not to hunt but to see the jungles He made a couple of vis- its to Alaska and only last year visited this Territory to hunt and photograph Alaska'S famous anil malS-the bears.
 During his lifetime, Eastman was reputed to have amassed fortune of $500, 0,O00, ,000. A friend in com @ A N