Surnames: Eastman, Porter, Hogsett, Mulholland
Dr Thomas N Eastman, a young and rising physician of Fayette county, was born and raised in Merrittstown, Luzerne township, Fayette county, Penna, November 23, 1856, and is a son of Dr Henry Eastman and Mary E Porter Eastman.Dr T N Eastman was reared in Luzerne township and received his early education in the common schools. He attended Dunlap's Creek Academy and was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1878. Choosing the medical profession for a life vocation, he entered upon its study under
the tutelage of his father, Dr Henry Eastman. After completing the required course of reading, he attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College where he was graduated, March, 1881. After graduation he occupied the important positon of resident physician in St Mary's Hospital, Philadelphia, Penna. He was called from Philadelphia to the Asylum for the Insane at Dixmont as assistant physician where he remained some time, and returned to Merrittstown and engaged in the general practice of medicine with his father, Dr Henry Eastman.He has a large and paying practice in the western part of the county, having proved himself a worthy successor of his father whose practice he has retained with unusual success.
On June 10, 1886, he was married by Rev A S Mulholland D D to Miss Jennie Hogsett, daughter of Robert Hogsett. They have one child, Helen Eastman, born June 8, 1889.
Dr Eastman owns a very fine residence at Merrittstown which he erected in 1887. He is an intelligent and skillful young physician.