Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . il, the col-lege in a short time included 1,600 students, occu-pied five large buildings, and employed more thansixty instructors. In 1871, and again in 1873, was elected to the New York assembly,and he also served three terms as mayor of Pough-keepsie. Many public improvements in that citywere due to his energy and liberality. EASTMAN, John Rofoie, astronomer, b. inAndover, N. H., 29 July, 1836. He was graduatedat the Chandler scientific department of Dart-mouth in 1862, and in 1877 received the degree ofPh. D. from that college. In Feb
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . il, the col-lege in a short time included 1,600 students, occu-pied five large buildings, and employed more thansixty instructors. In 1871, and again in 1873, was elected to the New York assembly,and he also served three terms as mayor of Pough-keepsie. Many public improvements in that citywere due to his energy and liberality. EASTMAN, John Rofoie, astronomer, b. inAndover, N. H., 29 July, 1836. He was graduatedat the Chandler scientific department of Dart-mouth in 1862, and in 1877 received the degree ofPh. D. from that college. In February, 1865, hewas appointed professor of mathematics in theU. S. navy, with the relative rank of commander,and assigned to astronomical work in the U. S. ob-servatory in Washington. He has accompaniedvarious astronomical expeditions throughout theUnited States, and in 1870 was sent to Syracuse,Sicily, to observe the total eclipse of the sun thattook place on 22 Dec. of that year. Besides beinga member of various scientific societies, he has. since 1879 been a fellow of the American associa-tion for the advancement of science, and was itsgeneral secretary in 1883. The results of h. tronomical investigations hare appeared in theyearly volumes of the U. S. naval observatory,which from 1872 till 1882 were edited by him. EASTMAN, Julia Arabella, author, b. in Ful-ton, N. Y., 17 July, 1837. She became a successfulteacher, and, with her sister, Sarah, opened in 1880the Dana Hall preparatory school for students en-tering Wellesley college. She has published ju-venile story-books, among them Short Comingsand Long Goings (Boston, 1869); Beulah Bom-ney,(1871); and Young; Rick(1875); also manyarticles and short poems in newspapers. EASTMAN, Macarthur Eastman, capitalist,b. in (iilmanton, N. JL, 8 June, 1810; d. in Man-chester, N. H., 3 Sept., 1877. While engaged inthe manufacture of woollen goods at Roxbury,Mass., he acquired an interest in a patent spinning-jenny, which he introduced in
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