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EASTMAN, Harvey Gridley, educator, born in Marshall, Oneida County, New York, 16 November 1832; died in Denver, Colonel, 13July 1878. He opened a commercial school in St. Louis in 1855, and four years later the Eastman national business College at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. beginning with one pupil, the College in a short time included 1,600 students, occupied five large buildings, and employed more than sixty instructors. In 1871, and again in 1873, Mr. Eastman was elected to the New York assembly, and he also served three terms as mayor of Poughkeepsie. Many public improvements in that City were due to his energy and liberality.
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