HENRY EASTMAN, banker and lumber dealer, Montfort; born in Canada in 1830; he came to Wisconsin with his parents (the latter now deceased) in the fall of 1845, and settled in the town of Smelser, Grant Co.; he went to California via the isthmus in 1849, and engaged in mining, where he stayed two years; he then engaged in business in Guttenburg, Iowa, for one and a half years; thence to Galena, Ill., where he engaged in the lumber trade, where he remained about six years; he then removed to Jackson Co., Wis., and engaged in the manufacture of lumber, where he stayed about four years, when he returned to Grant Co. and located at Hazel Green, where he kept hotel; he came to Montfort in 1863. Was married to Mary Honeywell; they have four children - Morton H., Maggie, Cora B. and Orval B.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.