Gaston, Joseph.  "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912."  Vol. 2. 
Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 32.

	JOSEPH EUSTACE, who for forty-five years was actively associated with the
business interests of Baker City, was born in Connecticut in 1827.  His youth
was spent in the state of his nativity, where he also received a common-school
education.  When he attained his majority Mr. Eustace bade adieu to his native
state with its associations and activities and came to California, making the
journey by water.  This was in 1850 and the great gold excitement had not yet
ceased to bring adventurous spirits from the east, attracted by the many tales
of fortunes gained in a year or two.  Upon his arrival in California, Mr.
Eustace engaged in mining, a business which he followed for eight years with
varying success.  In 1858 he decided to press farther north and going to Oregon
in 1862 he settled in Auburn, Baker county, where he again engaged in mining.
After a time he gave up that business and purchased a ranch three miles
northeast of Baker City, upon which he raised various farm crops and specialized
in stock-growing.  After a considerable period spent in this employment Mr.
Eustace sold his farm and engaged in the hide, fur and wool business in Baker
City.  After following that business for a time he became a hardware dealer but
in 1900 he retired from active affairs and continued to lead a retired life
until his death, which occurred in Baker City, November 27, 1906.
	In 1902 Mr. Eustace was married to Mrs. Sarah Lewis, who was born in Greene
county, Ohio.  In 1838 she removed with her parents to Iowa, where she lived
until 1887, when she emigrated to New Mexico, residing there until 1898, when
she came to Baker City, Oregon.  It was here that she became acquainted with
Joseph Eustace, their marriage occurring in this city.  Mrs. Eustace, who
survives her husband, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which
she is a regular attendant and a liberal supporter.
	Mr. Eustace was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, an order
in which he took an active interest, manifesting in his well ordered life the
ennobling principles espoused and taught by Odd Fellowship.  For nearly a
half-century Joseph Eustace lived in Baker county.  He brought with him the
financial resources which he had accumulated during the earlier period of his
life, eight years of which were spent in the gold mines of California.  He came
in the vigor of his early manhood and cast in his lot with this county when it
was in an extremely primitive state of development and when the labors of a man
of his stamp and caliber were more noticeable and, in fact, more needed than in
the present day of our superior civilization.  The same qualities of industry,
economy and perseverance which Mr. Eustace displayed while a miner of California
he exhibited throughout his life work in Baker county.  He labored early and
late, out of season and in season, never forgetting, however, in the midst of
his toil and care to be a Good Samaritan to those in need who knocked at his
door or who came under his observation.  The habits and traits of character
which he exhibited throughout the period of his residence in Baker county served
to make him the center of a large circle of warm personal and business friends,
while his indefatigable industry and his well directed business efforts resulted
in gaining for him large property interest, the ownership and direction of which
now rest with his widow.  He was for nearly half a century a prominent figure in
the business interests of Baker county and in fact he was one of the leading
business men of Baker City for over a quarter of a century.  Mr. Eustace has
left upon this city and county the impress of his life and labors in such a way
as to be plainly noticeable for many years to come.




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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2015 by Dale Givens, odg -at-
hiwaay.net.

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