Edward Eastman

Edward Eastman (February 22, 1806 - February 23, 1870) was an American merchant and bookseller from Oshkosh, Wisconsin who was the first mayor of Oshkosh, served several years as its postmaster, and spent a single one-year term in 1851 as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Eastman was born February 22, 1806 in Randolph, Vermont, son of Tilton and Experience Smith Eastman. He was college educated (at an Episcopal seminary, which may explain his nickname of "Deacon"), then worked on his father's farm and helped put two brothers through college as well. One of these brothers, George B., would later become a minister in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. With his first wife, Sarah (Tracey) Eastman, he had a son George; Sarah died soon after their child's birth. He married Catharine Granger (born in 1824) on June 3, 1841. The couple would eventually have four children together.

He came to Wisconsin Territory in 1846, spending some time in Dodge County before moving on to Oshkosh later that year. He settled there, and began dealing in general merchandise for many years in partnership with L. M. Miller. He was appointed postmaster of Oshkosh by the Polk administration in that same year, and would serve until 1849, when Whig Zachary Taylor became President of the United States (postmaster being a patronage position).

...
Wikipedia