John B. Eastham
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Name
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John B. Eastham
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Given Name
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John B.
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Family Name
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Eastham
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Occupation
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University of Virginia student
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Description
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The University of Virginia’s Faculty Minutes, April 24, 1850, records that John B. Eastham was a University of Virginia student who, along with Daniel B. Conrad and Richard Venable Gaines, witnessed the violent rape of an unidentified young girl by University of Virginia students and perpetrators George H. Hardy, Armistead C. Eliason, and James E. Montandon. Eastham and fellow witnesses Conrad and Gaines interfered to stop the attack and reported it to the Chairman of the Faculty.
