Dr William Lyman Faxon
American
William Lyman Faxon was a surgeon in the 32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Grand Army of the Republic. - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father John Faxon
- Brother: Francis Grey Faxon
William Lyman Faxon was a surgeon in the 32nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Grand Army of the Republic. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| 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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