Koylton Biographies |
Taken from The History of Tuscola County, Biographical Sketches and Illustrations, H. R. Page Co., Chicago, 1883. Thanks to Bonnie Petee.
CYRUS HENDRICK was born in
Colden, Erie County, N. Y., in 1845, moved with his parents to Ashtabula County, Ohio in
1854. Came to Koylton in 1868, and settled on section 30, where he now resides. In 1861 he
enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and served in the Army of the Potomac, being
in all the battles of his regiment. Was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, and was
discharged in the fall of 1863. He was married in 1870 to Miss Eliza Campbell,
and has five children.
LEWIS LANWAY was born January 29, 1843, in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., and came to the township of Koylton in 1867, and settled on section 29, where he has since resided. He has cleared seventy acres of his farm during the past fifteen years, besides spending thirteen winters at work in the lumber woods. He enlisted in September, 1861, in the Sixtieth New York Infantry, and served three years and nine months. Was with the Army of the Potomac till after the battle of Gettysburg, and subsequently was under General Hooker in the Western Army, and was wounded twice at Atlanta. In 1866 he married Miss Rachael Harrington and has five children.
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