“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


WILLIAM EUSTIS,  farmer, Secs. 11 and 12; P.O. Fort Atkinson; born 
in Newburyport, Mass., May 4, 1799, where he received only a 
common-school education; when quite young, went to Eastport, Me., 
where he clerked in a dry-goods store for three years; when 21 years of 
age he entered the dry-goods trade for himself; that business he followed 
successfully till 1836.  Married, in Eastport, Me., April 6, 1823, Miss 
Frances Weinslar, who was born in Portland, June 6, 1804; their children 
are – Elizabeth, Frances and William; their mother died in December, 
1835.  He then removed, with his children, to Sangamon Co., Ill., where 
he pre-empted 400 acres of prairie land, on which he made many 
improvements.  Married again, in Sangamon Co., Ill., December, 1840, 
Miss Martha Sowell, who was born in Charlotte Co., Va., in February, 
1814; had three children – Charlie, Jane, Mary.  In the spring of 1846, he 
disposed of the land and moved to Wisconsin, and bought 160 acres; 
shortly afterward added 120; had 280 acres; eighty acres he has since 
sold; the 200 acres remaining he has well improved.  He built and 
occupies the only stone octagon house in Oakland.  He raises a variety of 
crops and the usual stock of the county.  Republican.  In 1852, served as 
member of the Legislature for the Second District; has been Assessor 
and Township Supervisor.


Submitted by:  L.Pingel