Background
Harvey Gridley Eastman was born on October 16, 1832 near Waterville, Oneida County, New York, United States. He was the son of Horace and Mary (Gridley) Eastman. His father was a farmer.
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Businessman educator politician
Harvey Gridley Eastman was born on October 16, 1832 near Waterville, Oneida County, New York, United States. He was the son of Horace and Mary (Gridley) Eastman. His father was a farmer.
Eastman began his career by teaching in a business college conducted at Rochester by his uncle, George Washington Eastman.
He started a similar school of his own in Oswego in December 1855 and in the spring of 1858 moved his business college to St. Louis. There a bid for publicity turned swiftly into a boomerang. Uninformed of local sentiment, he guilelessly imported some noted Eastern abolitionists—Joshua Giddings, Gerrit Smith, Elihu Burritt, Charles Sumner—to lecture to his young Missourians. Amid the ensuing uproar he decided to try his luck elsewhere and conferred himself, apparently at random, on Poughkeepsie, New York, preceding his arrival with a generous quantity of advertising.
On November 3, 1859, in a room rented for seventy- five cents a week, with no equipment worth mentioning, he opened Eastman's National Business College to three enrolled students. As more pupils trickled in, their fees were invested in publicity.
Eastman gave Horace Greeley $1, 500 per insertion for a full page of the Weekly Tribune, and Greeley obligingly came up to Poughkeepsie to address the students on the subject of “The Self-Made Man. ” In one year Eastman spent $60, 000 for advertising in five New' York newspapers; he shipped catalogues, circulars, and prospectuses by the ton to all parts of the country and even abroad. At home he organized his students into a monster brass band, and celebrated —at suspiciously frequent intervals—the “anniversary” of the college with a huge banquet, music, and speeches. And it paid to advertise.
He had 500 students in 1861, 1, 200 in 1863, 1, 700 in 1864-65. The town swarmed with young men seeking a commercial education and also board, lodging, and sundries. Poughkeepsie prospered; Eastman grew rich.
His college, known from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rockies, did its work well, for Eastman taught banking and commercial practise by a laboratory method as effective as it was then novel.
His castellated residence stood in a park of twenty-seven acres, which was generously thrown open to the public. He had his thumb in every local pie: the Poughkeepsie Ice Club, the First National Bank, a horse-racing association, the Poughkeepsie & Eastern R. R. , and in several of them he lost a great deal of money.
He built a row of pretentious houses on Eastman Terrace and finally disposed of them at a loss of $60, 000. As mayor of the city 1871-74 and from 1877 till his death, he spent the taxpayers’ money lavishly for improvements, was sharply criticized, but defended himself successfully.
In 1872 and again in 1874 he sat as a Republican in the state Assembly, being sent there by his constituents in order to secure enabling legislation for a projected cantilever bridge across the Hudson. The bridge, it was believed, would put Poughkeepsie on a trunkline railway between Pennsylvania and New England and would make the city rich. Eastman was vice-president of the company that proposed to build it.
He won the needed legislation, but engineering difficulties, lack of money, and the opposition of railway and steamboat companies delayed the completion of the bridge until ten years after his death, which took place in Denver, Colorado, where he had gone for his health. A lone, broken bridge pier in the Hudson was known locally for years as “Eastman’s monument. ”
He founded a college, known from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rockies, in which thouthands of students were taughts. Due to eastman the city of Poughkeepsie prospered. He proposed to build a bridge, which was believed, would put Poughkeepsie on a trunkline railway between Pennsylvania and New England and would make the city rich.
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He was genial, dependable, sanguine, possessed of a magnetic personality and a torrential energy.
He married Minerva Clark of Canastota in 1857.
