EASTMAN, Charles Gamage, poet, born in Fryeburg, Maine, 1 June 1816; died in Burlington, Vermont, in 1861. he early went with his parents to Barnard, Vermont, was educated at Royalton academy, Windsor, and at Burlington, and was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1837. While a student he wrote editorials for the Burlington " Sentinel." He founded the "Lamoille River Express" at Johnson, Vermont, in 1838, established the "Spirit of the Age" at Woodstock, Vermont, in 1840, and purchased the "Vermont Patriot" and removed to Montpelier in 1846. He was postmaster at Woodstock and Montpelier for several years, and a member of the state senate in 1851'2. He published a volume of poems delineating the rural life of New England, marked by a high degree of metrical finish (Montpelier, 1848), was a contributor of poetry to reviews and magazines, and read poems at the University of Vermont and at Dartmouth and other Colleges.