Seth Newton Eastman, MD
b. 1855 d. 1889 at age 33
Son of Edson Cummings Eastman and Mary E Eastman
From the family archives
Born in Concord New Hampshire and died in New York City and buried in the family lot in Blossom Hill cemetery at Concord. Attended Vermont medical college 83 year course, graduating with distinction. Appointed surgeon on one of the steamships of the Alexander line running from New York to Veracruz. He had a short practice at Danvers, Massachusetts. Surgeon on the Rotterdam line of steam ships. Hemorrhage of the lungs in Amsterdam while visiting some friends at a hotel. Six weeks of skillful medical treatment nursed back to health by his sister Belle. Then went to Barbados Island and back to being a surgeon on the Brazilian line. Dr. Eastman had friends. He made them everywhere and he retained the last, their attachment. He met death with fortitude. Living, he scattered about him a smile of help; dying, he desired to cast no shadows and life‘s pathway.
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