Sedgwick-Reno County KS Archives Biographies.....Baughman, H. C. 1837 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   H. C. Baughman, of Cheney, Kan., a veteran of the Civil War, was born
December 4, 1837, in Stoverton, Muskingum county, Ohio. His parents were John
Baughman and Sarah (Stover) Baughman. His father was a native of Pennsylvania
and his mother of Virginia, her family belonging to the F. F. V.'s The elder
Baughman died in 1879 and his widow in 1899. H. C. Baughman obtained his early
education in the public schools of Ohio. In 1860 he removed to Illinois, where
he taught school for four months. He then enlisted in Company F, Fifty-ninth
Illinois Infantry, as a private, at Hazel Dell, and went to the St. Louis
arsenal, where the regiment remained three weeks for equipment. It was then sent
to Booneville, Mo., and was in the Fremont campaign to Springfield, Mo. The
regiment was then transferred from the Department of Missouri to the Cumberland,
and participated in the battles of Perryville, Ky.; Stone River, the Tullahoma
campaign, the battle of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge. It was
then sent on a forced march to the relief of the siege of Knoxville, and after
this was sent back to Chattanooga to join the Atlanta campaign under Sherman.
When the latter started on his March to the Sea the Fourth Corps and
Twenty-third Corps were started back to Nashville, Term., under General Thomas.
The Fifty-ninth Regiment was in the Fourth Army Corps, in which Mr. Baughman was
enlisted and participated in the last battle of the war on December 15 and 16,
1864, at Nashville, Term. In the following June the whole corps was sent to
Texas under General Stanley and mustered out of the service at New Braunfels,
Tex., December 8, 1865. The regiment kept together from June 24, 1861, to
January, 1866, when it was paid off in full at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Baughman
entered the service as a private, became second sergeant August 6, 1861; orderly
sergeant January 1, 1862; second lieutenant October 15, 1862, and captain
February 15, 1864. After his term had expired Mr. Baughman returned to Casey,
Ill. On March 20, 1866, he was married to Miss Rosannah Frazier, of Zanesville,
Ohio, a daughter of William Frazier, of that city. He then returned to Illinois
and located in Jasper county, where he was engaged in the milling business three
years and in farming three years. He then went to Piper City, Ill., where he
conducted a general store up to 1878. In that year he removed to Kansas and
located in Reno county, where he engaged in farming on a 160-acre farm which he
owned. He was postmaster in Mona for twenty-three years. In 1901 he moved to
Cheney and retired from active business. Mr. Baughman built himself a handsome
residence in Cheney which is kept up in first-class style, and still owns a farm
in Reno county. He and his wife are prominent in church circles, both being
members of long standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church. John W., one of his
three living children, is a large land owner in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska and
Wyoming, with offices at Liberal, Kan., and Plains, Kan. Harry S. lives on a
farm in Grant county, Oklahoma, and Jesse G. lives at Plains, Kan., and is
engaged in the automobile business.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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