Dr William Lyman Faxon

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William Lyman Faxon was a surgeon in the 32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Grand Army of the Republic. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1837/03/25 Lucy Hardwick Faxon, wife of John Faxon, gives birth to a son, William Lyman Faxon, in Quincy, Massachusetts. Born
1862/06/02 In Quincy, William L Faxon joins the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as an Assistant Surgeon. Military
1862/07/23 The 32nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment joins the Army of the Potomac at Harrison's Landing in Virginia. Union Surgeon Berkeley Plantation Charles City, VA
1862/09/00 Surgeon Faxon is put in command of the hospital of the 5th corps, near City Point. Union Surgeon City Point Historic District Hopewell, VA Siege of Petersburg
1863/10/15 Anne Elizabeth Randall, daughter of John Chase and Elizabeth Lawrence Huse Randall, marries William Lyman Faxon. Groom
1863/11/29 The 32nd Massachusetts is in position, in the centre of the line of battle at Mine Run, with orders to be ready to charge the enemy's works at a given hour, when a signal gun was to be fired. - Col F J Parker Union Surgeon Payne's Farm Battlefield Locust Grove, VA
1863/12/00 The 32d was in winter cantonments at Liberty, near Bealton Station, on the Orange and Alexandria railroad. I arrived at Bealton Station, a locality which by daylight appeared to be a small, rough, and inconvenient platform of planks. - Anne Faxon Union Surgeon Remington Virginia
1864/10/00 When the army had settled down to the siege of Petersburg, Mrs Faxon was ordered to the front, and a description of the hospital and of hospital life from her point of view will not be uninteresting. - Col Francis J Parker Union Surgeon Siege of Petersburg
1881/12/01 Dr H L Faxon of Quincy donates a Native American arrow (Unknown tribe, c 1850-80) to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. It was almost certainly owned by Civil War surgeon William L Faxon. Benefactor
1894/05/01 Mary Jane Reynolds, daughter of Stephen and Catherine Reynolds, marries William Lyman Faxon. Groom
1910/01/19 William Lyman Faxon dies in Quincy, Massachusetts. Mr Faxon is buried at Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Old Section near Plot 696, Poplar Ave, in Quincy, Massachusetts. Died Mount Wollaston Cemetery Quincy
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