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Individual Record -- Farnham, Roswell
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 33, credited to Bradford, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT INF, 12th VT INF
Service: comn 2LT, Co. D, 1st VT INF, 5/2/61 (5/9/61), m/o 8/15/61; comn MAJ, 12th VT INF, 9/19/62 (10/2/62), m/o 7/14/63
See Legend for expansion of abbreviations
VITALS
Birth: 07/23/1827, Boston, MA
Death: 01/05/1903
Burial: Upper Plain Cemetery, Bradford, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Bob Hackett
Findagrave Memorial #: 23278899
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 1/24/1898, VT; widow Mary e., 1/22/1903, VT
Portrait?: VHS Collections
College?: UVM 49 52
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)
Remarks: See Benedict's Army Life in Virginia; See also: UVM's Digital Collections for the Civil War
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BURIAL:
Copyright notice
Upper Plain Cemetery, Bradford, VT
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Roswell Farnham
New York Times
Jan. 6, 1903Ex-Gov. Farnham of Vermont Dead
Bradford, Vt. - Jan. 5. - Ex-Gov. Roswell Farnham died at his home here to-day. He was Governor of the State from 1880 to 1882, during which time, with his staff, he represented Vermont at the Yorktown celebration. During the civil war he was Lieutenant Colonel of the Twelfth Vermont Regiment.
Contributed by Tom Boudreau.
Biographies:
Prentiss C. Dodge, compiler, Encyclopedia Vermont Biography Ullery Publishing Company, Burlington, Vt., 1912, p. 45.
Source: Silas McKeen, A History of Bradford, Vermont, …" J. D. Clark & son, Montpelier, Vt., 1875, pp. 377-380.
