Lyman Munson Shorey

In 1860 he was a 23 year old student at the "Academy" (probably Phillips) in Andover, Massachusetts and lived in Elizabeth Price's boarding house there. On 23 January 1862, then living in Skowhegan, ME, he enrolled and was elected First Lieutenant of Company F, 7th Maine Infantry.

He was severely wounded in the left foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

Disabled by his wound, he resigned his commission on 21 December 1862.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1864 with a Bachelor of Laws degree and was a student in the Harvard Divinity School for a year ending in 1867. He was later a partner in his brother-in-law Hiram Studley's express business in New York City and had his own "Livery and Boarding Stables and Baggage Express" business after his partner retired in 1872. He died at St. Vincent Hospital in Manhattan, NY at age 53 in 1889.

His wounding from Hyde,1, with service details from the Maine Adjutant General.2 Personal details from Harvard's Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates 1636-1925 (1925), the General Catalogue of the Divinity School of Harvard University (1920), a bio sketch in William C Hatch's A History of the Town of Industry (1893), source also of his picture: an etching from an 1862 photograph, from family genealogists, and from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Margaret Jane Tappan (1833-1909) in February 1879.

10/29/1836; Industry, ME

12/29/1889; New York City, NY; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY