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Eastman, Julia Arabella

educa-wrote a Narrative of the Causes which led tor, author, was born July 17, 1837, in Fulton, N. Y. She is a Massachusetts teacher who has written a number of juvenile tales, among which are Short Comings and Long Goings; Young Rick; and Kitty Kent's Trouble.

EASTMAN, MACARTHUR EASTMAN, capitalist, was born June 8, 1810, in Gilmanton. He introduced the patent spinning jenny into England; sold patent of breech-loading cannon to British government in 1856; and contracted for firearms to the United States and other governments. He planned the direct ocean cable, laid in 1874. He died Sept. 3, 1877, in Manchester, N. H.

EASTMAN, MRS. MARY HENDER- SON, author, was born in 1818 in Warrenton, Va. She is the author of Romance of Indian Life; Dacotah, or Life and Legends of the Sioux; American Aboriginal Portfolio; Chicora and other Regions of the Conquerors and the Conquered; Tales of Fashionable Life; and Aunt Phillis's Cabin, a reply to Uncle Tom's Cabin.