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Charles Sumner Eastman

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Charles Sumner Eastman

Birth
Wisconsin, USA
Death
27 Aug 1939 (aged 75)
Hot Springs, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA
Burial
Hot Springs, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA Add to Map
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Hot Springs, S.D., Aug 28--Charles Eastman, 75, pioneer South Dakota attorney, died Sunday after a surgical operation. Eastman came here in ine 80's from Wisconsin, where he had been practicing law in the office of his uncle, the late U.S. Senator, Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. He served as one of the early day sheriffs of Fall River county when Hot Springs was a frontier outpost and later became state's attorney here.

Prominent in the state as an attorney and active in the political life of South Dakota, Eastman was elected delegate to seveal national democratic conventions.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. E. E. Makiesky, Omaha,and Mrs. Ruth C. Schubert of San Francisco; and four sons, Dean H. Eastman of Seattle, Arthur Eastman of Lincoln, Nebr., LeRoy C. Eastman of Longview, Wash., and Thomas of Pierre, former assistant attorney general of South Dakota.

Funeral services will be held at Hot Springs Wednesday.
Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, SD, Mon, August 28, 1939
Hot Springs, S.D., Aug 28--Charles Eastman, 75, pioneer South Dakota attorney, died Sunday after a surgical operation. Eastman came here in ine 80's from Wisconsin, where he had been practicing law in the office of his uncle, the late U.S. Senator, Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. He served as one of the early day sheriffs of Fall River county when Hot Springs was a frontier outpost and later became state's attorney here.

Prominent in the state as an attorney and active in the political life of South Dakota, Eastman was elected delegate to seveal national democratic conventions.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. E. E. Makiesky, Omaha,and Mrs. Ruth C. Schubert of San Francisco; and four sons, Dean H. Eastman of Seattle, Arthur Eastman of Lincoln, Nebr., LeRoy C. Eastman of Longview, Wash., and Thomas of Pierre, former assistant attorney general of South Dakota.

Funeral services will be held at Hot Springs Wednesday.
Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, SD, Mon, August 28, 1939


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