Charles Frederick Eastman, Harriet Stephenson Eastman, and Harriet's father, Alexander Stephenson, lived at 211 Sumner Street, now Newbury Street, and are buried at Evergreen Cemetery. The Eastmans and Stephensons were conductors on the Underground Railroad and sustained the Abyssinian Church through rough financial times. Charles Eastman worked as a barber, secondhand clothing dealer, mariner, hack driver, and taxidermist, preserving rare animals at a museum in his home. A self-educated man, he accumulated a considerable library.