Lewis Lanway’s biography, Koylton Township, Tuscola County, Michigan

Copyright © 2000 by Bonnie Petee. This copy contributed for use in 
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Taken from The History of Tuscola County, Biographical Sketches 
and Illustrations, H. R. Page Co., Chicago, 1883. Thanks to 
Bonnie Petee. 

LEWIS LANWAY was born January 29, 1843, in St. Lawrence County, 
N. Y., and came to the township of Koylton in 1867, and settled 
on section 29, where he has since resided. He has cleared seventy 
acres of his farm during the past fifteen years, besides spending 
thirteen winters at work in the lumber woods. He enlisted in 
September, 1861, in the Sixtieth New York Infantry, and served 
three years and nine months. Was with the Army of the Potomac 
till after the battle of Gettysburg, and subsequently was under 
General Hooker in the Western Army, and was wounded twice at 
Atlanta. In 1866 he married Miss Rachael Harrington and has five 
children.