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Edward Eastman
Edward Eastman (February 22, 1806 - February 23, 1870) was an American merchant and bookseller from Oshkosh, Wisconsin who was the first mayor of Oshkosh, served several years as its postmaster, and spent a single one-year term in 1851 as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.〔("Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 46 )〕
== Background and move to Wisconsin ==
Eastman was born February 22, 1806 in Randolph, Vermont, son of Tilton and Experience Smith Eastman. He was college educated (at an Episcopal seminary, which may explain his nickname of "Deacon"), then worked on his father's farm and helped put two brothers through college as well. One of these brothers, George B., would later become a minister in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.〔"Personal" ''Oshkosh Daily Northwestern'' July 6, 1882; p. 4, col. 4〕 With his first wife, Sarah (Tracey) Eastman, he had a son George; Sarah died soon after their child's birth. He married Catharine Granger (born in 1824) on June 3, 1841. The couple would eventually have four children together.
He came to Wisconsin Territory in 1846, spending some time in Dodge County before moving on to Oshkosh later that year. He settled there, and began dealing in general merchandise for many years in partnership with L. M. Miller. He was appointed postmaster of Oshkosh by the Polk administration in that same year, and would serve until 1849, when Whig Zachary Taylor became President of the United States (postmaster being a patronage position).
In February 1847, Eastman, Miller and other locals were authorized by the territorial legislature to form a company to build a bridge across the Fox River "at Miller's Ferry" in Oshkosh.〔''Laws of the Territory of Wisconsin, Together with the Joint Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Annual Session of the Legislature in 1847'' Madison: H. A. Tenney, Territorial Printer, 1847; pp. 68-70〕 On January 12, 1848, he was appointed the first clerk of court for the Winnebago County circuit court.〔Lawson, Publius Virgilius. ''History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its Cities, Towns, Resources, People'' Chicago: C.F. Cooper and Company, 1908; pp. 191, 210, 541〕
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