John Albert Eastman (March 4, 1821 – April 11, 1895) was an American lawyer, politician, and pioneer of Wisconsin and Michigan.
He reports that he is engaged to "a fine amiable little girl, not handsome nor 'accomplished', but quiet, domestic, confiding" and that she thinks him "quite a fellow for a Yankee.
It is unclear whether the "fine amiable little girl" referred to is the same person as the Helen Mar Darling whom he married on January 6, 1848.
[5] In 1844, Eastman became the first "Register or Clerk" of the newly created Fond du Lac County Probate Court.
[6] In 1848, he was defeated for county judge by John Bannister, and for state senator by Warren Chase, a Free Soiler.
[3] Eastman was elected in 1849 from the Fourth District, at that time consisting of Fond du Lac and Winnebago Counties.
[9] In January 1847 Eastman was one of the seven commissioners appointed by a private act of the legislature to sell stock in the newly-chartered Sheboygan and Fond du Lac Railroad Company, along with former governor Nathaniel Tallmadge, Moses S. Gibson and Benjamin F. Moore.