Jackson County, West Virginia - Biography: Harry EASTWOOD

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pgs. 616


    HARRY EASTWOOD is one of the younger members of the Charleston bar, but in less than a
half dozen years has established a substantial practice and a secure reputation in his
profession.
    He was born at Mount Tell, Jackson County, West Virginia, in 1890, son of W. H. and
Margaret A. (Duff) Eastwood. For many years the home of the Eastwood family was at 
Catlettsburg, Kentucky, where W. H. Eastwood was born, and where his father, Jesse
Eastwood, was an honored resident. Jesse Eastwood was a Union soldier in the Civil war,
a member of Company A, Twenty-second Kentucky Infantry, and was all through that struggle.
In his town he was a man of extensive property interests, owning tracts of land in the 
vicinity of Catlettsburg. W. H. Eastwood spent some years in Jackson County, West Virginia,
but subsequently removed to Poca, Putnam County.
    It was on a farm in Putnam County that Harry Eastwood grew to manhood. He acquired most 
of his education in the schools of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, studied law at home and in the
Hamilton College of Law in Chicago, and was admitted to the bar at Charleston in 1917. 
Since that year he has given attention to the increasing responsibilities of his practice.
He is senior member of the law firm of Eastwood, Rowan & Thompson, in the Kanawha National
Bank Building. Mr. Eastwood handles the general practice, but has avoided cases in the 
criminal law, and his time is more and more taken up with legal interests of corporation 
and commercial and industrial litigation.
    Mr. Eastwood is a member of the Central Methodist Church of Charleston. He is a 
Uniformed Rank Knight of Pythias and D. O. K. K., and is also a member of the Lodge 
and Encampment of the I. O. O. F.
    He married Miss Ella May Bradley, of Louisa, Kentucky. Their two children are 
Russell H. and Harold P.

Transcribed and submitted by Valerie F. Crook, <vfcrook@trellis.net>, Janaury, 1999