Tobias Eustis (1821-1889) was born
10 July 1821
in Frogmoor, Feock parish,
Cornwall
,
son of George and Phillipa (Bullen)
Eustis and brother of George. Tobias arrived in
America
on
5 July 1836
, at age
15, from
Lancashire,
England.
He first lived in Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence
County, New York, probably with his brother, George. He then went to Oxbow,
Jefferson County
,
New York
,
where he married his first wife, Mary Markwick in
1843. In May 1847, they moved back to St. Lawrence County, where he
operated a wagon and carriage building business at
Hammond
and was also a farmer. His first wife died
in 1852 and he soon remarried to Margaret Parkinson. He had fourteen
children, five by his first wife and nine by his second, including two sons
who were lawyers of some importance in
New York City
and
Minneapolis
,
Minnesota
.
One of these sons, William Henry Eustis served as mayor of
Minneapolis
.
Tobias died in
Hammond
4 Jan 1889
at the age of 67 and
Margaret died in 1898. |
