Eustis, Abraham, 1786-1843

Col. Abraham Eustis was an attorney and Army officer who graduated from Harvard University and Bowdoin College. He served during the War of 1812, and was the first commander of Fort Monroe, and Fort Eustis was named in his honor. He was born in Petersburg, Virginia in 1786, the son of Abraham Eustis and Margaret Parker Eustis. He married first, Rebecca Chambers Sprague in 1809, and they had seven children, and second, Patience Wise Blackett Izard in 1823. He's buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.