History of Broome County New York United States of America

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Austin Vitruvius Eastman, lawyer, was born in Broome county, N.Y., Aug. 27, 1839; son of Nathaniel Webster and Mary (Stebbins) Eastman; and descendant of Roger Eastman, who came to New England in 1638. He was fitted for college at Aurora academy, entered Hamilton in 1860, enlisted in Company H, 1st N.Y. volunteers, and served as lieutenant in the civil war until wounded at the battle of Chantilly. He was graduated from Albany law school, 1865, and became prominent in the legal profession in Iowa and in St. Paul, Minn. He was married in October, 1865, to Mary Scoville, great-granddaughter of Capt. Reuben Ballou of Cumberland, R.I. As attorney and general manager for several large English syndicates, he bore an active part in developing the resources of the northwest and southwest during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He became interested in promoting southern industries and in 1899 was head of the North American land and timber company, Lake Charles, La.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Emma Pike Ewing, educator, was born in Broome county, N.Y., in July, 1838; daughter of Robert and Phoebe (Trivette) Pike. She received her education in the district schools of her native county and from her father, who was a teacher. In 1863 she was married to W. P. Ewing, at that time and for several years navy agent of the port of Baltimore. She began teaching cookery in 1880; conducted a cooking school in Chicago, 1880-83; was dean of the Chautauqua assembly cooking school, and had charge of it, 1882-99; was professor of domestic economy at the Iowa agricultural college, 1883-87, and at Purdue university, Indiana, 1887-89; conducted a school of household science in Kansas City, Mo., 1889-90; and taught and lectured throughout the United States and Canada. She became director of the model school of household economics connected with Marietta college, Ohio, in 1898. She is the author of: Cooking and Castle Building (1880); Cookery Manuals (1884); The Art of Cookery (1897); and Text Book of Cookery (1898).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Lewis Eliphalet Parsons, governor of Alabama, was born in Broome county, N.Y., April 28, 1817. He was a great-grandson of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). He studied law under Frederick Tallmadge of New York, and G.W. Woodward of Pennsylvania, settled in practice in Talladega, Ala., in 1840, and in 1841 associated himself with Alexander White. He was a presidential elector on the Fillmore and Donelson ticket in 1856, and representative in the Alabama legislature in 1859. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Charleston, S.C., and Baltimore, Md., in 1860, and a representative in the state legislature in 1863, where he opposed the militia system of the state, as the Confederate government had full power of conscription. He was appointed provisional governor of Alabama by President Johnson, June 21, 1865, and devoted himself to the work of reconstruction until Dec. 20, 1865, when he was elected to the U.S. senate; but not being allowed to take his seat, he resumed the practice of law, He served several terms as a representative in the state legislature, and was speaker of the house in 1872. He died in Talladega, Ala., June 8, 1895.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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