Eastman, Seth (1801-1885)

Name:

Eastman, Seth (1801-1885)

Title:

Director, Mechanics Bank
Director, Concord & Claremont Railroad
Trustee, New Hampshire Savings Bank
Captain, New Hampshire State Militia
Major, 1st Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, 1861

Born:

08/11/1801

Birthplace:

Concord, NH

Died:

08/23/1885

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Concord, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith, watchmaker, and jeweler, 1826-1843
Insurance business, S. & S. C. Eastman
Banker

Father:

Eastman, Nathaniel (Capt.) (1755-1839)

Mother:

Bradley, Ruth (1757-1841)

Relations:

Partnership, Robert Davis & Co., Concord, 1826-1828
Took over shop of Timothy J. Chandler, 1828.
Succeeded in business by his nephew, Seth Eastman Brown, 1843.
Siblings:
Eastman, Isaac (1780-1868/9; b.d. Concord, NH; m. Abigail Tay of Woburn MA; 5 children, including brass machinist Samuel Eastman of Concord)
Eastman, Phebe (1782-; b. Concord, NH)
Eastman, Bradley (1786-; b. Concord, NH)
Eastman, Timothy (1786-; b. Concord, NH)
Eastman, Ruth (1789-; b. Concord, NH)
Eastman, Ebenzer (1791-; b. Concord, NH)
Eastman, Abraham (1793-)

Spouse:

Coffin, Sarah (1805-1896), June 14, 1830

Children:

Enoch, born 1831; died 1837, Concord, NH
Edson Cummings, born 1832; died 1911; m(1) Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1855; m(2) Mary Louise Whittemore 1888; children; publisher; res. Concord, NH
Samuel Coffin, born 1837, Concord; died 1917; m. Mary Clifford Greene 1861, RI; child
John W., born 1841; died 1841, Concord, NH

Notes:

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968), 210.

James O. Lyford, Editor. History of Concord, New Hampshire, From the Original Grant in Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Volume I. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1903), 46, 429, 486, 488.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 98.

"Notice, Robert Davis & Co.," Advertisement, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, NH, September 4, 1826, 3.

"New Establishment" Advertisement, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, NH, November 24, 1828, 3.

"Removal" Advertisement, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, NH, June 15, 1829, 1.

"Out of the Line, Call and Settle" Advertisement, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, NH, May 18, 1843, 4.

"Death of Capt. Seth Eastman," Daily Monitor, Concord, NH August 24, 1885.

Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH