Bio of EASTMAN, Dr. Arthur Maynard (b.1855), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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ARTHUR MAYNARD EASTMAN, M. D. - Vol. III, page 615
Dr. Arthur Maynard Eastman, who passed away at his home on February 24, 1923,
was a native territorial pioneer of Minnesota, as he was born in St. Anthony on
May 1, 1855. He was the son of John Whittemore and Maria (Farrington) Eastman,
who came from Conway, New Hampshire, in 1854. John Eastman was the first of a
family of four brothers and four sisters, who came, one after another, to settle
here, and all became more or less prominent in the early affairs of the new
city. This family came from a long line of American patriots, and Dr. Eastman
counted among; his ancestors, two men, father and son, who had served in the
Revolutionary war, and another who was a captain, at twenty-one, in the French
and Indian wars and went twice on expeditions to Cape Breton, being present at
the reduction of Louisburg in 1745. Still another was a soldier in King Philip's
war, and during those troublous times had his home burned by the Indians and he,
with some members of his family, was captured and carried away by them.
Dr. Eastman received at the University of Minnesota the education preparatory to
taking a medical course, paying special attention to the exact sciences,
particularly to chemistry, and in 1876 entered the Hahnemann Medical College at
Philadelphia, where he took the three years graded course. During his attendance
at college he resided in the home" and was a student of the well known Dr.
Constantine Hering, who was distinguished in the medical world for his
scientific attainments and writings. This was an experience of the greatest
value to a young medical student, as it gave him the opportunity to meet many
prominent physicians, as the home of Dr. Hering was the rendezvous and, one
might say, the Mecca of all the leading men in that school of medicine. Among
the noted men with whom he became acquainted while there were Doctors Raue,
Guernsey, Lippe, Morgan, Korndoerfer, Kueer and Farrington.
He graduated in 1879 with the degree of M. D., and soon after was elected by the
college faculty resident physician of the Homeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia,
which position he only occupied for a few months, resigning to accept another on
the staff of the Homeopathic Hospital of New York. Here he served as house
surgeon and resident special pathologist until April, 1881, when he received a
diploma from the hospital, and severing his connection there came to St. Paul to
begin his practice of medicine.
In 1884 he married Miss Harriet Lord Welles, the daughter of the Hon. Henry T.
Welles, another pioneer of the city of Minneapolis, and at that time erected his
home at 186 Summit avenue, where all of his children were born and where the
family continued to live until 1913, when they removed to another home in
Minneapolis. Mrs. Eastman died in St. Paul in 1907. His children are: Mildred,
Welles and Katherine (now Mrs. James E. Dain), all of Minneapolis; Mrs. Harriet
North of Boston, Massachusetts; and Eleanor, now Mrs. Byron Webster of St. Paul.
In 1897 Dr. and Mrs. Eastman took a trip abroad, visiting England, Belgium,
Germany, Switzerland and France. They were in London in time to witness the
festival of Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and in Brussels for the International
Exhibition. Dr. Eastman spent considerable time attending lectures and clinics
in the great hos­pitals of London and Paris.
He was very much interested in the exploration and discovery of the iron lands
in the northern part of Minnesota and in the Canadian provinces north and east
of our boundary, and in the '80s was accustomed to spend his vacations in
exploratory trips of that nature. He was connected with the promotion and
opening of iron and silver mines in the territory north of Port Arthur, and also
in connection with a younger brother of his father was interested in some mining
activities in the province of Quebec. He was very early on the Mesaba range and
brought home specimens of the ore to be assayed at the University, but to be
pronounced at that time to be worthless. That was some time before the process
of reducing it was discovered, which made the Minnesota mines the largest in the
world.
Dr. Eastman was a member of a number of medical societies. He was a senior
member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the Minnesota State Homeopathic Institute. In
October, 1895, he was elected president of the St. Paul Society of Homeopathic
Medicine and Surgery, and at the time of his death he was president of the
Minnesota Board of Medical Examiners, and had recently been the president of the
Minneapolis Homeopathic Society. He was also a member of the Alumni Association
of Hahnemann Medical College and the Alumni Associations of Ward's Island and
Metropolitan hospitals of New York.
He belonged for many years to the Masonic order, having joined in 1886 the
Summit Lodge of St. Paul, and at the time of his death was a member in good
standing. On December 9, 1915, he joined the Scottish Rite Consistory of
Minneapolis, and members of that order officiated at his funeral service. He was
a member of the Mystic Shrine, joining on April 13, 1917; the Zuhrah Temple of
Minneapolis; and also belonged to Elks Lodge, No. 58, in St. Paul. He was
likewise identified with the Sons of the American Revolution and the Native Sons
of Minnesota.
In 1917 he wrote a very beautiful memorial sketch of the life of Dr. Constantine
Hering, including his reminiscences of his life in the doctor's home. This was
read before the Minnesota Homeopathic Institute and was published in the
Hahnemannian Monthly for August, 1917, and reprinted from that magazine,
embellished with illustra­tions compiled by the son of Dr. Hering, and published
by the family for private distribution. Dr. Eastman read many other papers
before the societies of which he was a member, and many of these were published
in the National Magazine of the Homeopathic Society.
Having spent his entire life in the Twin Cities, with the exception of his three
years of college work, he possessed a large circle of lifelong friends who were
much attached to him and in whose homes his happy, genial temperament made him a
most welcome guest. He will be sadly missed alike by family, friends and
patients.