EDWARD G. EUSTIS
EUSTIS, EDWARD G: Insurance Agent; b Galesburg, Ill June 16, 1874; s of George Daniel Eustis-Elizabeth Young; ed Stuart HS; m Jennie E McKee Mar 6, 1901 Stuart; 1894-98 retail furn business with father, Stuart; 1899-1903 furn dir, Stuart; 1903-12 salesman for Chittenden & Eastman Furn Co; 1913 traveled 8 states for Jamestown Lounge Co, Jamestown N Y; 1913-15 gen agt Equitable Life of Iowa, Davenport, 1915- Atlantic; during Sp-Amer War enl Co H 51st Iowa inf, in San Francisco June 9-Nov 3, 1898, on transport Penn to Phillipines, Manila Dec 7th, aboard ship until Dec 26th, with Expedition Holla 30 days, returned Manila Feb 5, landed at Canit & Feb 9 engaged Aquinaldos troops, fighting continued to San Fernando until Sept 22nd with no relief, even to change clothes, disch in US Sept 1899; AF&AM; York Rite; hobby: insurance; off 8 W 5th; res 1404 Chestnut, Atlantic.
Key to Abbreviations
From "Who's Who in Iowa," by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940, pg. 196-197.
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