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man. On his father’s side he is of English and Welsh parentage, being 
the grandson of Benjamin Franklin Eastman, one of the founders of 
the Republican Party and a colonel of the Maine Regiment, and the great, 
great grandson of Joseph Dyer, one of the members of the Boston 
Tea Party. His mother’s family was English and settled in Amesbury, 
Mass., in the seventeenth century. He has one brother, Fred Ermon 
Eastman, and two sisters: Carrie (Eastman) Richardson and Alice Clark 
Eastman. 
He was prepared at the Deming High School and Maine Wesleyan 
Seminary and in 1902 received the degree of B.S. from Bowdoin College. 
He was married October 18, 1905, in Bath, Maine, to Miss Bessie Watson 
Clifford of Bath, Maine, daughter of Charles W. Clifford and Addie 
Strout Clifford. They have one daughter, Martha Clifford Eastman, 
born September 8, 1906, in Tacoma, Wash. 
Eastman served as forest assistant in the United States Forest 
Service from the time of his graduation from the Yale Forest 
School until April, 1908. From then until August, 1909, he was 
employed by the St. John Lumber Company. In September, 
1909, he became vice president and buyer for the firm of Eastman 
Brothers & Bancroft, his present position. 
He is a member of the Episcopal church. In politics he is a 
Progressive Republican. He is a Mason and a member of the 
Portland Athletic Club. 
‘Stuart J. Flintham 
Business address, 610 Loughlin Building, Los Angeles, Calif. 
Residence, 111 North Normandie, Los Angeles, Calif. 
Stuart John Flintham was born December 30, 1879, in Albion, N. Y., 
the son of William S. Flintham. 
He was prepared at the Albion (N. Y.) High School and studied at 
Williams College during the years 1899-1900 and 1900-01, and at the 
Cornell Forest School in 1901-02 and 1902-03. In 1904 he received the 
degree of B.A. from Cornell University. He was editor of the college 
papers and member of the athletic teams at Williams and Cornell. 
He was married November 14, 1907, in Orange, Calif., to Miss Helen 
Billingsley of Orange, Calif., daughter of Ray Billingsley and Eleanor 
Billingsley. They have one son, William B. Flintham, born August 17, 
1908, in Los Angeles, Calif. 
Flintham entered the United States Forest Service in June, 
1904, resigned as forest inspector of California in July or 
