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GEO. B. EASTIN comes of good old Virginia stock, who came early to Kentucky. His father, Augustine Eastin, was a soldier of the war of 1812, and came to Kentucky immediately after leaving the army; his mother was Nancy Bryan, a daughter of William Bryan (of Bryan’s Station), a brother-in-law to Daniel Boone. The subject was born in Fayette County, August 19, 1842. At the age of thirteen he entered Transylvania University, where he remained three years; he then spent two years at Georgetown, and graduated from Kenyon College in 1861. In the same fall he entered the Confederate army, in Morgan’s command, and served with him through the war. He went in as a private, was promoted to lieutenant, in which capacity he served a year and a half, and was then promoted to captain. In 1806 he came to Louisville, and the next year graduated from the law department of the University of Louisville, and was admitted to the bar. He has practiced alone most of the time, but in January, 1885, he became a partner of Judge Thomas A. Hargis; he is also attorney for the Kentucky National Bank. Mr. Eastin was married, in 1868, to Miss Fanny Castleman, a daughter of David Castleman of Fayette County.