Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886

William H. Dustin, a native of Louisville, Ky., was born July 1, 1848, and is the son of Eli and Ellen Dustin, natives of Kentucky. Our subject received a liberal education in Louisville, and in early life was engaged as clerk by James Ridgeford & Co., of that city, where he remained until 1862, after which he entered the army as clerk of a sutler, and was thus engaged until the close of the war. At that time he moved to Lawrenceburg, Tenn., and engaged in the dry goods, general merchandise and cotton manufacturing business, at which he is still engaged. The firm is known as W.H. Dustin & Co., and Dustin & Dunn. They are the proprietors of both Eagle and Crescent cotton-mills. Mr. Dustin is also president of the Shoal Mills Manufacturing Company, in Lawrence County. He has been a very successful man in all his undertakings. He is considered a prosperous and accurate business man, and a good citizen. In 1867 he married Maggie Skyes, daughter of James and Eliza Sykes, natives of England and Connecticut, respectively. To our subject and wife were born two children: Gertrude E. and Willis S. Our subject is a Democrat in politics, a member of the F & A.M., and also a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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