J. L. Nye Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 916

J. L. NYE, photographic artist, Platteville; is a native of Maine, born in 
Fairfield, Somerset Co., in 1842; he enlisted, Aug. 5,1861, in the 7th Me. V. 
I., Co. E, and served as a private two years in that regiment, when he was given 
a Second Lieutenant's commission in Co. E, 9th U. S. Vols., and served one year 
in that capacity; he was in ten engagements while in the 7th Me. Regiment, and 
was at the siege of Port Hudson with the 9th.  After he left the army he 
returned to Maine, and from there came to Platteville, in November, 1865, where 
he has been engaged in his present business ever since.  He married Miss Kate 
Tyler, of Platteville, in 1867, and has two children - George N. and Mabel.