When William Eastman Nowland was born on 17 November 1868, in Marion Township, Charlevoix, Michigan, United States, his father, Thomas Russell Nowland, was 56 and his mother, Experience Hale, was 42. He married Myrtle C Isaman on 29 September 1905, in Boyne City, Charlevoix, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Charlevoix, Charlevoix, Charlevoix, Michigan, United States in 1900 and Charlevoix, Charlevoix, Michigan, United States in 1910. He died on 11 February 1919, in Marion Township, Charlevoix, Michigan, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Charlevoix, Charlevoix, Michigan, United States.