Editing George Eastman (section)

==Early life==
[[File:GeorgeEastmanBoyhoodHomeFrontViewOblique.JPG|thumb|left|Eastman's boyhood home, relocated from Waterville to the [[Genesee Country Village and Museum]]]]
Eastman was born in [[Waterville, New York]],<ref>{{cite book|last=McNellis|first=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CONJjFMvLZYC&pg=PA147|title=Reflections on Big Spring: A History of Pittsford, NY, and the Genesee River Valley|year=2010|publisher=[[AuthorHouse]]|isbn=978-1-4520-4358-6|page=147|oclc=1124409654|access-date=October 1, 2016|archive-date=May 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513093623/https://books.google.com/books?id=CONJjFMvLZYC&pg=PA147|url-status=live}}</ref> as the youngest child of George Washington Eastman and Maria Eastman (née Kilbourn), at the {{convert|10|acre|adj=on}} farm which his parents had bought in 1849. He had two older sisters, Ellen Maria and Katie.<ref name="Brayer2006">Brayer, Elizabeth (1996). pp. 12–19</ref> He was largely self-educated, although he attended a private school in Rochester after the age of eight.<ref name="Brayer2006"/>

In the early 1840s his father had started a business school, the Eastman Commercial College in [[Rochester, New York]]. The city became one of the first "boomtowns" in the United States, based on its rapid industrialization.<ref name="Brayer2006"/> As his father's health started deteriorating, the family gave up the farm and moved to Rochester in 1860.<ref name="Brayer2006"/> His father died of a brain disorder on April 27, 1862. To survive and afford George's schooling, his mother took in boarders.<ref name="Brayer2006"/>

The second daughter, Katie, had contracted [[polio]] when young and died in late 1870 when George was 15 years old. The young George left school early and started working to help support the family. 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.<ref name="PBSMaria">{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/peopleevents/pande03.html|title=Key Figures in Eastman's Life|last=Lindsay|first=David|work=American Experience|publisher=PBS|access-date=August 5, 2012|archive-date=October 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013075739/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/key-figures-eastmans-life//|url-status=live}}</ref>