EASTIN, William B., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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WILLIAM B. EASTIN, ST. MARTINVILLE.--William B. Eastin, chief deputy clerk of
the court of St. Martin parish, Louisiana, was born in St. Martinsville, July
4, 1849.

He is the son of Richard T. and Octavia (Fontenette) Eastin.  Richard T.
Eastin was appointed second lieutenant and afterward first lieutenant in the
Mexican war by President James K. Polk.  Octavia Eastin was born in St.
Martinsville , Louisiana, 1848.  Ten children were born to this marriage, of
whom our subject was the oldest.  His mother is still living.

William B. Eastin spent his earlier school days in Grand Coteau College,
Louisiana, and subsequently attended St. Johns College, Fordham, New York,
where he completed his classical course.

On his return home he read law for two years in the office of Jules Gray in
St. Martinsville.  He preferred the freedom of the plantation, however, to the
confinement of the office, and at this period turned his attention to
planting, at which he remained for three years.  He was then appointed justice
of the peace and served two years, after which he was appointed chief deputy
recorder of St. Martin parish, which position he held until 1880, at which the
recorder's and clerk's offices were consolidated into one.  He was appointed
chief deputy clerk of the court, 1881, and still occupies that position.

He was married in December, 1882, to Miss Gabriele Guereniere.  She was born
in St. Martinsville, 1851.  Nine children were born to this marriage, seven
sons and two daughters, all of which are now alive.

Mr. W. B. Eastin stands high in public favor and is looked upon as a rising
man of St. Martin parish.     

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 326. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.