When Frederick Eastman was born on 5 May 1821, in Clarendon, Rutland, Vermont, United States, his father, John Eastman, was 36 and his mother, Louise Gleason, was 34. He married Frances Jane Gleason on 21 June 1848. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Sherburne, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1850 and Rutland Town, Rutland, Vermont, United States for about 30 years. He died on 1 June 1881, in Vermont, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Rutland Town, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
English: from the Middle English personal name Estmund (Old English Ēastmund, from ēast ‘east’ + mund ‘protection’). See also Esmond .
English: occasionally a variant of Heasman, a topographic name for a dweller ‘(in the) brushwood’, from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’ + mann (compare Hayes 3).
Americanized form (translation into English) of Swedish Östman (see Ostman ) and North German Ostmann or Östmann (see Oestmann ).
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