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The Eastman Family
Caroline (Carrie) Augusta Jewett, (13 December
1855 - 1 April 1897), younger sister of Sarah Orne Jewett.
Edwin Calvin Eastman (11 April 1849 - 18 March 1892).
They married 21 October 1878.
Their son was Theodore Jewett Eastman (4 August 1879 - 9 March 1931).
Edwin Calvin Eastman (11 April 1849 - 18 March 1892).
They married 21 October 1878.
Their son was Theodore Jewett Eastman (4 August 1879 - 9 March 1931).
Edwin Calvin Eastman was born in East Kingston, Rockingham county NH, son of Calvin Eastman and Abby O. Smith. (Sources: FamilySearch; "New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904"; Find a Grave)
From Boston Daily Globe 20 March 1892, p. 4.
NEVER MADE AN ENEMY.
Death of Edwin C. Eastman, a Leading Citizen of South Berwick.
Death of Edwin C. Eastman, a Leading Citizen of South Berwick.
SOUTH BERWICK, Me. March
18. -- Edwin C. Eastman, one of the most prominent business
men in this region,died last night, after only five days
sickness, of peritonitis.
Mr. Eastman was born in Exeter, N.H., in 1850, and came to this place about 1875, where he entered into the drug business with Albert Barrows, now of Haverhill, who he afterwards bought out.
In 1878 he married Miss Carrie Jewett, youngest daughter of the late Dr. Theodore H. Jewett, and sister of Sarah Orne Jewett, who is now in Genoa.
Mr. Eastman was a man of spotless integrity, who won scores of friends, and never made an enemy.
He was a trustee of the Berwick academy and treasurer of the Congregational parish. He leaves a widowed mother, a wife and one son.
Mr. Eastman was born in Exeter, N.H., in 1850, and came to this place about 1875, where he entered into the drug business with Albert Barrows, now of Haverhill, who he afterwards bought out.
In 1878 he married Miss Carrie Jewett, youngest daughter of the late Dr. Theodore H. Jewett, and sister of Sarah Orne Jewett, who is now in Genoa.
Mr. Eastman was a man of spotless integrity, who won scores of friends, and never made an enemy.
He was a trustee of the Berwick academy and treasurer of the Congregational parish. He leaves a widowed mother, a wife and one son.
From the Lewiston Evening Journal, Monday 21 March, 1892, p. 2.
Edwin C. Eastman, one of the most prominent
business men in South Berwick died Friday night after only
five days sickness, of peritonitis. In 1878 he married
Miss Carrie Jewett, youngest daughter of the late Dr. Theodore
H. Jewett, and sister of Sarah Orne Jewett, who is now in
Genoa. He was a trustee of the Berwick Academy. He
leaves a mother, a widow, and one son. Mr. Eastman was
forty-two years old.
Class of 1897Theodore Jewett Eastman
Noble and Greenough School
Dedham, MA 02026
Theodore Jewett Eastman is second from the left in the middle row.
Photograph courtesy of the Archives
of Noble and Greenough School.
From Harvard College Class of 1901 Secretary's Third Report
The University Press, 1911
pp. 124-5
THEODORE JEWETT EASTMAN
Born South Berwick. Me., Aug. 4, 1819.
School Berwick Academy; Noble and Greenough's.
Degrees A.B., 1901; M.D., 1905.
Unmarried
Business Physician.
Address 396 Marlborough St., Boston. Mass.
The fall after graduation I entered the Harvard Medical School where I first learned what it meant to work all day and "grind" about all night. After a year of that I spent a summer abroad, the greater part of the time in Germany with Burnett, Talbot, '00, and Storrs, '96, all classmates at the medical school. Two years later, with two Indians I went down the Missanabie and Moose rivers to Hudson's Bay, seven hundred miles or more altogether, in a birch canoe. Following my graduation from the medical school in 1905 I was appointed medical house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where I served a year and a half. Immediately after that I went abroad, by the way of the Azores, Madeira, and Algiers to Naples. I spent a month in Italy and then went to Vienna where I stayed nearly a year, industriously working in the laboratories and hospitals, with an occasional excursion to the eastern Alps or to little-known parts of Austria and Hungary. Leaving Vienna I travelled for a few weeks in Germany and then spent a month in Paris and a fortnight in London. During the summer of 1907 I practised medicine at Isle au Haut, Me., and in the fall opened an office in Boston, where I have been practising ever since, confining myself to internal medicine. As for offices, I have
held none of "profit" from the financial point
of view. I am a trustee of Berwick Academy, South Berwick,
Me., and have held various offices in clubs and societies. I
am assistant visiting physician to out-patients at the
Massachusetts General Hospital and secretary of the
out-patient staff, assistant visiting physician to Long Island
Hospital and consulting physician to the Massachusetts
Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. I have written no books, and
as the titles of the medical articles which I have published
would hardly prove of absorbing interest to the class in
general and might paralyze the type-setter with horror, I will
not mention them. Member: University Club, Harvard Travellers'
Club, Union Boat Club, Aesculapian Club, Junior Medical Review
Club, Surgical Review Club, American Medical Association,
Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston Society of Medical
Sciences and the Boston Medical Library.
From Harvard College Class of 1901 Secretary's Fourth Report
The University Press, 1916
pp. 137-9
THEODORE JEWETT EASTMAN
Born South Berwick, Me., Aug.4, 1879.
Parents Edwin Calvin Eastman. Caroline Augusta Jewett.
School Berwick Academy, South Berwick. Me., and Noble
and Greenough's School, Boston, Mass.
Years in College 1897-1901.
Degrees A.B.. 1901; M.D., 1905.
Occupation Physician.
Address (home) South Berwick, Me.
(business) 71 Marlboro St.. Boston, Mass.
The story of my life since graduation has very few additions to my "life history" as published in our decennial report. I entered the Harvard Medical School in the fall of 1901, and put in four years of hard work, except for short vacations in the summers. The summer of 1902 I spent abroad, travelling with Burnett, '01, Talbot, '00, and Storrs, '96, and studying in Jena in Germany. In 1904, suffering from an acute attack of "wandering fever" I went to Missanabie, Ontario, a settlement composed of three log-shacks and some Cree Indian tepees, bought a birch-bark canoe, picked up an Ojibway and a Cree and started north, paddling and portaging to the Height of Land, then portaging over it and striking the head waters of the Missanabie River, then down that to the Moose River and to Hudson's Bay. Seven hundred miles of paddle, pole and pack in five weeks and then back to the Medical School. Graduating in 1905, I entered the Massachusetts General Hospital, where I spent a year and a half, and then went to Vienna by way of the Azores, Madeira, Gibraltar. Algiers and Italy. In Vienna I spent nearly a year of hard work and pleasure, sandwiching in numerous little excursions to the mountains and to out-of-the-way places in Austria, Bohemia and Hungary, and incidentally acquiring smatterings of numerous dialects which have since become very useful in conducting an out-patient clinic, made up of every possible nationality. From Vienna I went to Germany, thence to Paris, England and home. Since arriving here in 1908 I have stuck to the practice of medicine, with only one real trip, -- to Newfoundland and along the coast of Labrador in the summer of 1914. The trip was not a howling success, for the little steamer I was on became stuck in the ice north of Indian Harbor -- though it was July -- and for two weeks we froze and cussed. To make things brighter we ran out of fresh meat, vegetables and fresh water, and anybody who has lived for any length of time on oatmeal (without milk), bad salt fish and poor pork, with occasionally "salt junk" as a luxury knows that it is not like a 1901 class dinner! However, we dipped up very brackish water from the ice floes and survived. We eventually got out of the ice and started south, bringing the crews of a small steamer and several fishing vessels which had been wrecked by the ice, and at Battle Harbor, after a few days' wait. I picked up a crazy little steamer and came down the wonderful west coast of Newfoundland. Arriving at the railway I decided that all excitement was over, but not so! Soon the train-went off the deliriously-built track, and for hours the train-crew and the passengers worked in indescribable swarms of black-flies and midges to bring order out of chaos. Arriving in Boston I found the thermometer at 96° (and it stayed there for ten days!) which was some contrast to three weeks of freezing to death. I hold no offices of "profit," for the physician has so many unpaid offices wished on him that he hasn't time to devote to profitable ones. I am visiting-physician to out-patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital and consulting physician to the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, and have held other appointments in other hospitals from which I have resigned. As I reported in the decennial report, "I have written no books, and as the titles of the medical articles which I have published would hardly prove of absorbing interest to the class and would paralyze the typesetter with horror, I will not mention them." Member: Harvard Club of Boston, University Club of Boston, Aesculapian Club, Boylston Medical Society, Massachusetts Medical Society, Junior Medical Review Club, Boston Medical Library, Harvard Travellers' Club.
"Bulletin of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Association"
Theodore Jewett Eastman died on Monday,
March 9, 1931, in the Baker Memorial building at the
Massachusetts General Hospital. Born in South Berwick,
Me., 51 years ago, he came of a line of devoted country
doctors of the highest type. He graduated from Harvard
College in 1901 and from the Harvard Medical School in
1905. He completed his service as "West Medical" house
officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1907,
and after that studied for a year in Vienna.
Throughout his life he displayed a remarkable devotion to his patients, a true appreciation of human nature, and an unusual capacity to make friends with patients and contemporaries. He restricted his private practice so that on any day and at any hour he could give his whole self to those under his care. His hobbies were few, but he collected antique clocks with rare judgment.
For many years he was a visiting physician to out-patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His love for that institution was real. He appreciated its achievements as well as its shortcomings. In a peculiarly intimate way, everyone connected with the hospital was his friend. All these people will miss him.
Throughout his life he displayed a remarkable devotion to his patients, a true appreciation of human nature, and an unusual capacity to make friends with patients and contemporaries. He restricted his private practice so that on any day and at any hour he could give his whole self to those under his care. His hobbies were few, but he collected antique clocks with rare judgment.
For many years he was a visiting physician to out-patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His love for that institution was real. He appreciated its achievements as well as its shortcomings. In a peculiarly intimate way, everyone connected with the hospital was his friend. All these people will miss him.
"A Beloved Physician"
Obituary of Theodore Jewett Eastman
by Dr. J. Payson Clarke
from "Graduate News" in the Noble & Greenough School Bulletin,
June 1931 (Vol IV No. 4), as reprinted from the Boston Transcript.
Obituary of Theodore Jewett Eastman
by Dr. J. Payson Clarke
from "Graduate News" in the Noble & Greenough School Bulletin,
June 1931 (Vol IV No. 4), as reprinted from the Boston Transcript.
This title belongs, without
question, to Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman, who has
been called to service in a higher field. To
one who has known and loved him for many years, this
seems the most fitting attribute of a man who
devoted his life to the service of his patients. To
each one of them he was not only a physician but a
friend to whom he or she could confide all troubles,
both of mind and heart and body, with full
confidence of a quick and ready sympathy and
understanding. He was full of resource and
helpfulness in trouble or difficulty, whether small
or great. He never refused to listen to any
complaint, however small and trivial, and was always
ready with wise and friendly advice and counsel.
His was the unselfish life personified -- never thinking of himself but always of others. One learned of his good works, if at all, by accident, and no one will ever know of all his acts of generosity and kindness to many in distress.
Of a naturally happy disposition and a boundless enthusiasm, his innate simplicity and whole-heartedness and genuine interest in his fellow-beings made for him firm and lasting friends in all walks of life. His was a great and guileless soul whose influence cannot perish with his death, but will live on in the hearts of his friends and continue a beneficent influence in their lives.
His was the unselfish life personified -- never thinking of himself but always of others. One learned of his good works, if at all, by accident, and no one will ever know of all his acts of generosity and kindness to many in distress.
Of a naturally happy disposition and a boundless enthusiasm, his innate simplicity and whole-heartedness and genuine interest in his fellow-beings made for him firm and lasting friends in all walks of life. His was a great and guileless soul whose influence cannot perish with his death, but will live on in the hearts of his friends and continue a beneficent influence in their lives.
Edited by Terry Heller, Coe College