Lauren Chase Eastman biography

EASTMAN, CHASE, LAMB, GARDINER, ROGERS

Posted By: Michael J. Kearney (email)
Date: 11/19/2005 at 20:04:59

Wolfe's History of Clinton County, Iowa 1911 p. 542 The character and business connections of Mr. Eastman are so well known to residents of Clinton that it is not necessary to use many words in speaking of him. His actions and his character speak for themselves sufficiently to those who know him. Lauren Chase Eastman was born June 19, 1844, in Penn Yan, New York, the son of Moses W. and Matilda (Chase) Eastman. He is of Puritan descent on both sides, his ancestors coming from England about 1630, and several members of his family served in the colonial and Revolutionary wars. His father was born June 12, 1810, his mother December 17, 1817, and spent their lives in New York. L.C. Eastman received a common school and academic education at Penn Yan, during the war served in a New York regiment, and then entered business employment. In 1869 he came to Clinton, Iowa, and on April 10th entered the employ of C. Lamb & Sons, the lumbermen, as head office man, and was with them continuously in that capacity for thirty-six years, until January 16, 1905, during which time he witnessed the growth and decline of their enormous saw-mailling business. He is now vice-resident of the Eastman Gardiner Company, incorporated under the laws of Iowa, and which is engaged in the operation of large lumber mills at Laurel, Mississippi. Besides his conneciton with this compnay, he is concerned in various Clinton enterprises. Mr. Eastman is, to use his own phrase, "not in politics." He is a member of all the bodies of both the Scottish and York rites of Masonry, in which he takes much interest. On October 17, 1866, Mr. Eastman was married at Penn Yan, New York, to Sarah Elizabeth Gardiner, who was born in Penn Yan, March 9, 1848, the daughter of Stimson B. and Nancy B. Gardiner, who came to Clinton in 1867, where Mr. Gardiner was prominent in lumber interests. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman are the parents of two children: Nina L. was born May 15, 1871, and married Wallace B. Rogers, who is now in Laurel, Mississippi, connected with the Eastman Gardiner Company. They are the parents of one bright son, Lauren Eastman Rogers, born August 13, 1898. Ida Gardiner Eastman was born April 20, 1873, and died February 5, 1902. Mr. Eastman is a member of the Presbyterian church. During his forty-two years residence in Clinton he has been closely identified with the interests of the city, and is well known as a citizen strongly influential in her advancement.