388,850, issued to George Eastman, September 4, 1888 As Eastman began to have success with his photography business, he vowed to repay his mother for the hardships she had endured in raising him. The young George left school early and started working to help support the family. The second daughter, Katie, had contracted polio when young and died in late 1870 when George was 15 years old. To survive and afford George's schooling, his mother took in boarders. His father died of a brain disorder on April 27, 1862.
As his father's health started deteriorating, the family gave up the farm and moved to Rochester in 1860. The city became one of the first "boomtowns" in the United States, based on rapid industrialization. In the early 1840s his father had started a business school, the Eastman Commercial College in Rochester, New York. He was largely self-educated, although he attended a private school in Rochester after the age of eight. He had two older sisters, Ellen Maria and Katie. Įastman's boyhood home from Waterville, relocated to the Genesee Country Village and MuseumĮastman was born in Waterville, New York, as the youngest child of George Washington Eastman and Maria Eastman (née Kilbourn), at the 10-acre (4.0 ha) farm which his parents had bought in 1849. Eastman is the only person represented by two stars both in the Film category in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one on the north side of the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard and the other one on the west side of the 1700 block of Vine Street, recognizing the same achievement, that he developed bromide paper, which became a standard of the film industry. The George Eastman Museum has been designated a National Historic Landmark. On March 14, 1932, Eastman shot himself in the heart, leaving a note which read, "To my friends: my work is done. In his final two years, Eastman was in intense pain caused by a disorder affecting his spine. With interests in improving health, he provided funds for clinics in London and other European cities to serve low-income residents. In addition, he made major donations to Tuskegee University and Hampton University, historically black universities in the South. He was a major philanthropist, establishing the Eastman School of Music, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and schools of dentistry and medicine at the University of Rochester and in London Eastman Dental Hospital contributing to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the construction of several buildings at the second campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the Charles River. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream.
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