Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Granby, Thomas B 1840 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Thomas B. Granby, farmer, P. O. Verona, is a native of Greene County, N. Y.; 
born September 10, 1840, son of James A. and Eliza A. Granby, our subject 
being the eldest of a family of eight children. His parents came to this 
county in 1855, from New York; his mother, Eliza A. (Carter) Granby, died in 
Grundy County in the fall of 1877; his father died December 23, 1879. Mr. 
Granby was educated in his native State. He enlisted August 10, 1862, in 
Company D, Seventy-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the 
Vicksburg campaign, under Grant, in 1862, and in the siege of Vicksburg in 
1863; battle of Raymond, Miss.; Champion Hills; Black River Bridge; Fort Hill 
(charge); Franklin, Tenn., where he was captured November 30, 1864, by Gen. 
Hood's force and held in Andersonville and other prisons until March 10, 1865, 
and was then paroled and in August was mustered out at Springfield, Ill. He 
married November 10, 1872, Miss Mary E. Cooper, daughter of William Cooper. 
She was born in Indiana, July 12, 1846. They have one son - Edgar A., born in 
Grundy County, August 16, 1873. Mr. Granby owns 100 acres of improved land; 
eighty acres in Section 10 of Vienna, and twenty acres in Section 29 of Norman 
Township. He is a Republican.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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