Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Greenfield:

Willliam H. Eikey, deceased, came from Brunswick, Germany, to Wisconsin, in 1840. and stopped first at Madison, but about 1845 came to Baraboo, and settled on Sec. 26, in Greenfield, in 1847, where his widow now resides; he built the first limekiln in 1848, and in the fall of 1849 he built the first frame schoolhouse in Greenfield, yet known as the Eikey Schoolhouse; in 1852, he put up, where the Prentice Mill now stands, the first saw-mill into which he also put machinery for sawing wagon stuff. Mr. Eikey was married, Feb. 18, 1849, to Miss Anna Umberger, daughter of Abraham and Sarah Umberger, of Wythe, Co., Va., born in March, 1830, by whom he had one daughter, Mary C., born 11th of January, 1851, who was married to Mr. C. F. Moher, of Caledonia, June 30, 1872. Mr. Eikey was a good mechanic and was much employed in early years as a stone and brick mason at Baraboo; he had a fine mind, and is said to have received in early life a liberal education; he was an active Republican and a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Eikey died Dec. 24, 1870, aged 60 years, 8 months and 13 days, leaving his farm of 230 acres to his wife and daughter.

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