Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Corey, Lanson F. April 7, 1841 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

LANSON F. COREY, Supervisor of Grant Tp., and farmer on sec. 12, was born in 
Crawford Co., O., April 7, 

1841.  He is a son of Enos and Eliza Corey, both natives of the Buckeye 
State.  His father died July 17, 

1860, and his mother still resides in Ohio.

Mr. Corey was reared to manhood in his native State, and was a citizen of the 
same until his removal to 

Michigan in 1866.  In that year he entered and provd a claim under the 
homestead law, consisting of 80 

acres of land, on which he has since resided, and which he has put in first-
class condition, and furnished 

with good and suitable farm buildings.  He owns an addtional 40 acres on sec 
10.  Mr. Corey was a soldier 

of the war of the Rebellion, and enlisted September, 1861, in Company K. 23d 
Ohio Vol. Inf., under Capt. 

Sills.  His first engagement was at Perryville, and afterward he participated 
in the fights at Resaca, 

Peach Tree Creek, Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and many minor 
skirmishes, tot he seige of 

Atlanta, where he was wounded.  He was thenin hospital at Jeffersonville, 
Ind., until within a few weeks 

of his discharge, which took place in June, 1864, at Camp Dennison, Ohio.

Mr. Corey was elected Supervisor of his township in 1867, and re-elected in 
1883; he served as Township 

Treasurer in 1881-2; as Road Commissioner from 1867 to 1871.  He belongs to 
the G. A. R.  He was married 

Nov. 17, 1863, to Margaret, daughter of Samuel and Sarah English.  Her parents 
are natives of 

Pennsylvania, and are both living.  Of this marriage six children have been 
born, namely:  Naomi A., 

William Harvey, John Franklin, Sarah Eliza, Samuel Wesley, and Zoe Luella.  
Mr. and Mrs. C. are members of 

the United Brethren Church.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co., MI.

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