D. J. Eastburn

    D. J. Eastburn, editor and proprietor of the Benton County Review, is a native of Iroquois County, Illinois, and was born May 10, 1845. He was reared on a farm until 1869, and attended the district schools. He afterward attended school at Battle Ground, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana until 1864, when he entered Asbury University at Greencastle, Indiana, from the classical department of which institution he graduated July 1, 1869. The season following, he served as Principal of the Kentland High School, after which he embarked in the drug trade at Sheldon, Illinois, continuing until the spring of 1874, when he sold out and removed to Hutchinson, Kansas. He remained there only one season, then returned to Sheldon, and in 1875 purchased an interest in the Sheldon Enterprise, of which he became sole owner and editor three months later. In November, 1880, he moved the press and material to Kentland, Indiana, and established the Newton County News, continuing the publication of that periodical until March, 1883, when he leased the office, which was burned the month following in the Kentland disaster. March 5, 1883, Mr. Eastburn became a resident of Fowler, where he has since conducted the Benton Review. Under his management, the Review has become one of the leading local papers of Northwestern Indiana, and an influential factor in Benton County.

    Mr. Eastburn is a democrat. He is a fearless writer, and able editor and an excellent localist, which renders him well fitted for the work in which he is engaged. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Masonic and Odd Fellows Fraternities, in the former order having advanced to the Knights Templar degree. He was married at Watseka, Illinois, February 12, 1873, to Miss Carrie H. Lyon, and to them one daughter has been born - Ethel C., born December 1, 1873. Mr. Eastburn is a son of Jesse and Jane (Smedly) Eastburn, who settled in Iroquois County, Illinois, in 1835, and were the parents of nine children, four of whom are yet living. Jesse Eastburn died September 3, 1873, but his widow yet survives him.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.