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CPL Philo Miner Lonsbury 

Birth

3 Mar 1835

Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA

Death

3 Feb 1922 (aged 86)

Seattle, King County, Washington, USA

Burial

Burial Details Unknown

Memorial ID

185787094

Civil War Veteran: Company E, Michigan 17th Infantry Regiment

 

Copied from the Constitution of Michigan:

 

Philo Miner Lonsbury - Representative of Osceola district, comprising the counties of Lake and Osceola, was born in Rochester, New York, March 3, 1835; came to Michigan in 1837 with his parents, settled on a farm in Cambridge, Lenawee county, where he spent his early life, attending district school winters; at the age of seventeen he entered Michigan union college where he spent two years, and afterward moved with his parents to Allegan, and taught school. In the spring of 1862 while at the State Normal he enlisted in the Normal company, which was assigned to the 17th Michigan infantry, the "Stonewall regiment." May 12, 1864, he was taken prisoner at Spottsylvania court house, and remained such at Andersonville, Georgia, and Florence, South Carolina, until February 22, 1865, when he escaped and joined the union army at Wilmington, North Carolina, and served until mustered out in June. Until 1874 he engaged in teaching school, serving the last year as principal of Reed City union school; since that date until about two years ago he was engaged in the drug business in Reed City. In politics he is a republican; has held the office of township treasurer, and school trustee of Reed City schools; was elected representative to the house of 1895-6 by a vote of 2,404 to 968 for Austin S. Randall, democrat and people's party candidate, and 331 for Oscar M. Brownson, prohibition.

 

NOTE: The war must have been very difficult for him. The day he was taken prisoner his younger brother, who was also in Company E, was killed.

 

Philo M Lonsbury

in the U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865

 

Name: Philo M Lonsbury

Residence: Ypsilanti, Michigan

Age at Enlistment: 27

Enlistment Date: 1 Aug 1862

Rank at enlistment: Corporal

Enlistment Place: Ypsilanti, Michigan

State Served: Michigan

Was POW?: Yes

Survived the War?: Yes

Service Record: Enlisted in Company E, Michigan 17th Infantry Regiment on 19 Aug 1862.Promoted to Full Sergeant.Mustered out on 09 Jun 1865 at Detroit, MI.

Birth Date: abt 1835

Sources: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers 1861-65

 

Philo is recorded to have lived in Allegan County, MI and moved to Reed City, MI in the early 1870's. In 1907, he moved to Seattle, WA. While in Reed City, MI, Philo attended the Congregational Church, was an active Mason, and elected to the state Legislature in the late 1890's. A prominent businessman who built a business block which burned three years before he moved to Washington. His brother, Herbert M., served in the same company and regiment and was killed 12 May 1864 and is buried in the National Cemetery at Fredericksburg, VA.

Philo Miner Lonsbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Miner_Lonsbury

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