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A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and its People, Vol. III
by Alvah L. Sawyer
Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago - 1911


        [1198-1199]

        LEWIS D. EASTMAN. - A representative member of the bar of the
      Upper Peninsula is Lewis D. Eastman, who is engaged in the successful
      practice of his profession in the city of Menominee and who has given
      effective service as city attorney and has served as circuit-court
      commissioner. He is known as a man of high professional attainments,
      and his success in his chosen calling has been on a parity with his
      unmistakable ability. As a citizen he is essentially progressive and
      public spirited and he has unlimited faith in the still further ad-
      vancement of Menominee as a commercial and manufacturing center.
        LEWIS D. EASTMAN was born at Lisbon, St. Lawrence county, New York,
      on the 18th of October, 1851, and is a son of REV. MORGAN L. and
      HESTER (THORPE) EASTMAN. REV. MORGAN LEWIS EASTMAN was born at Fair-
      field, Herkimer county, New York, in 1813, and was a son of one of
      the sterling pioneer families of that section of the old Empire
      state. The family is of English origin and the American branch was
      founded in New England in the colonial epoch of our national history.
      MRS. EVALINE H. THORPE EASTMAN was born at Ogdensburg, New York, in
      1818, and there was solemnized her marriage to MR. EASTMAN. They be-
      came the parents of nine children, of whom six are now living,
      namely: MARY, who is the wife of JAMES H. LEONARD; MARIAN L., who is
      the wife of GEORGE A. CLARK; REV. SAMUEL E., who is a clergyman of
      the Congregational church and resides in Elmira, New York; LUNA E.,
      who is the wife of WILIAM EDMIDSON of the state of Florida ; LEWIS
      D., who is the immediate subject of this sketch; and MARCIA, who is
      the wife of M. H. PHILLIPS, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The father gained
      his education almost entirely through self-discipline and became a
      man of good scholarship and of marked ability as a public speaker.
      For fully forty years he was engaged in the active work of the
      ministry as a clergyman of the Congregational church. For twenty-one
      years he was pastor of one church in Lisbon, New York, and he then
      came to Royalston, Wisconsin, about 1868, where he again held a
      single pastorate for fully twenty years. His life was one of signal
      devotion and consecration to the uplifting of his fellow men, and he
      was especially successful in his evangelistic work in both New York
      and Wisconsin. He passed the closing years of his life at Royalston,
      Wisconsin, where he died in October, 1890.
        To the public schools of Lisbon, New York, LEWIS D. EASTMAN is
      indebted for his early rudimentary education, and he later continued
      his studies in the public schools of Wisconsin, having been about ten
      years of age at the time of the family removal to that state. He was
      matriculated in the law department of the Northwestern University, at
      Evanston, Illinois, in which he was graduated as a member of the
      class of 1888 and from which he received his well-earned degree of
      Bachelor of Laws. Soon after his graduation he secured admission to
      the bar of the state of Wisconsin and located at Wasseon, where he
      was engaged in the practice of his profession until the autumn of
      1889, when he removed to Menominee, Michigan, where his success in
      the work of his profession has since been emphatic and cumulative. He
      served four successive terms as city attorney. In 1890 he was ap-
      pointed to fill an unexpired term as circuit-court commissioner, and
      at the expiration of the term he was chosen as his own successor in
      the office, as was he also at the close of his second term. He has
      gained a high reputation as a trial lawyer and as a counsellor well
      fortified in the minutiae of the science of jurisprudence. In poli-
      tics MR. EASTMAN has ever accorded an unfaltering allegiance to the
      Republican party and he has been an active worker in its local ranks.
      He and his wife are prominent members of the First Presbyterian
      church of Menominee, in which he is an elder. He is affiliated with
      Menominee Lodge No. 269, Free & Accepted Masons.
        MR. EASTMAN married MISS CLARA BAKER, who was born in Trumbull
      county, Ohio, and they have three children,-  EVELYNE, SIDNEY L., and
      ALICE MAY.

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