When William Stewart Lausten was born on 23 June 1916, in Maxwell, Colusa, California, United States, his father, Laust Nielsen William Lausten, was 33 and his mother, Mary Byrd Stewart, was 31. He lived in Williams, Colusa, California, United States in 1935 and Judicial Township 4, Glenn, California, United States in 1940. He died on 15 June 1967, in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa, California, United States, at the age of 50.