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Eastman, Edward

lawyer, legislator, was born in April, 1837, in Harrison, Maine. He is a successful lawyer; and represented his city in the state legisla ture in 1876.

EASTMAN, MRS. ELAINE GOODALE, educator, author, poet, was born Oct. 9, 1863, in Berkshire county, Mass. She became a teacher at various Indian schools, and in 1891 married Dr. Charles Eastman, a Sioux Indian. She is now supervisor of schools in St. Paul, Minn. She is the author of Journal of a Farmer's Daughter; The Coming of the Birds; and a volume of poems entitled Apple Blossoms.

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