Obrien-Winneshiek County IA Archives Biographies.....Barrett, Orsmond M. 1837 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 4, 2006, 1:53 am Author: Geo. W. Schee and O. H. Montzheimer (1909) Barrett, Orsmond M. Born May 28, 1837, at Oswego, N. Y. Married to Ellen C. Waggoner in 1864. Enlisted at Burr Oak, Iowa, August 15, 1862, Company D, Thirty-eighth Iowa Infantry; commissioned First Lieutenant November 4, 1862; served on staff of Major-General Herron at New Madrid and Siege of Vicksburg; resigned June 6, 1863. Was for many years engaged in practice of law at Sheldon. A Representative in the nineteenth General Assembly; Senator in twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third General Assemblies of Iowa; member Loyal Legion. Died and buried at San Diego, Cal., March 1, 1899. Additional Comments: Extracted from: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA AND ARMY RECORD OF OLD SOLDIERS Who Have Lived in O'Brien Co. Iowa COMPILED BY Geo. W. Schee and O. H. Montzheimer Published Privately PRIMGHAR, IOWA 1909 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/obrien/bios/barrett33nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/iafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb