George Eastman was born on July 12, 1854, in Waterville, New York. His father, George Washington Eastman, ran a business school where he taught bookkeeping and penmanship, but had to work a second ...

The central person in George Eastman's life, without a doubt, was his mother. She was born Maria Kilbourn on August 22, 1821, on a farm on Paris Hill, between Waterville and Utica, New York.

He was born in 1854 in the Central New York village of Waterville. That same year, his father, George Washington Eastman, established Eastman's Commercial College in Rochester, NY. After many trips ...