Nehemiah Eastman was an American lawyer, banker and politician from New Hampshire.
11 Facts About Nehemiah Eastman
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Nehemiah Eastman served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, the New Hampshire Senate and the New Hampshire House of Representatives in the early 1800s.
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Nehemiah Eastman attended the local academy in Gilmanton and then read law with John Curtis Chamberlain, future member of the United States House of Representatives.
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Nehemiah Eastman was admitted to the bar in 1807 and began the practice of law in Farmington, New Hampshire.
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Nehemiah Eastman began his political career as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1813.
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Nehemiah Eastman served in the New Hampshire Senate from 1820 to 1825.
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Nehemiah Eastman died in Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire, on January 11,1856.
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Nehemiah Eastman is interred at Farmington Cemetery in Farmington, New Hampshire.
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On October 24,1813, Eastman married Anstriss Barker Woodbury in Francestown, New Hampshire and they had four children: Charles, Martha Ann, George Nehemiah, and Henry Patrick.
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Nehemiah Eastman's brother-in-law was Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and 9th Governor of New Hampshire.
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Nehemiah Eastman was the uncle of Ira Allen Nehemiah Eastman, a United States Representative from New Hampshire.