The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-12-04
TO SHOW MILITARY HISTORY
Frank II. Lyman, Secretary Of Commits
sion Has Work Nearly Completed and
First List of Enlisted Men Is Pub
lished Today With Others to Follow.

With view of handing down to pos
terity the names of the brave men Of
Kenosha county who served during the
war of the rebellion and at the same
time preserve for future years the his
tory of their military service, Frank
III. Lyman, secretary of the commission
named some time ago by the county
board has completed his work and his
lists of all the soldiers from this coun-
ty are now ready to be placed into
permanent form to become a part of
the archives of the county. The work
has been a notable one and it has re-
quired more than four years to get the
long lists of names ready for the pub
fishers The first Of the series of names
is published today and other lists will
be published from week to week to per-
nit the people of the city and county
to look over them and suggest such COR
rections OF such additional information
as may be possible. When the commits
sion was named by the county board
years ago, William Henry Harrison of
Randall, who had been active in pro-
jmoting the plan of securing a memorial
to the soldiers of the county, was nam
cd as its chairman. Mr.. Harrison aid
ed in the outlining of the work but
before it had been well started taps
were sounded for him and George Hale
We gea TIN le4,ler &c the cqmmiS
SON Nearly two tearE ago Mr. Hale
died, so that the work has been left
almost entirely on the shoulders Of
Frank II. Lyman, who has served as
secretary of the commission. Other
members of the commission were H. B.
Schwan Of Kenosha, James Spencer of
Somers, George Kreuscher Of Paris and
Charles III. Likes of Kenosha but these
men have had little to do with the
actual labor of preparing the historical
data.
In securing his long list of names
Mr.. Lyman has secured facts not only
from the report of the adjutant general
but from many other sources and it is
declared that his list is the most com
plete ever prepared for any county in
the state. The cost of getting this ma
terial together has been decidedly
small and it is said that of 5000 APP
propriated by the county board less
than $50 has been expended.
Mr.. Lyman plans in the near future
to 90 to Madison and search old records
of the state in order to add missing
facts in his history Of the soldiers of
Keposha county.
So far as is possible the service of
the Kenosha soldiers has been looked
up and written up. Secretary Lyman
has arranged his lists in the form of a
card catalogue and the cards contain
a brief outline of the service of every
man who enlisted from Kenosha coun-
ty. In addition to this there are scores
of cards in the catalogue which tell
of interesting historical facts in regard
to the service of Kenosha county sol
diers,
lin conjunction with the card cata-
logue Mr., Lyman has arranged for
supplementary catalogue and fill
ing cabinet which will be enriched
with historical data iii regard TO
the military service of Kenosha
county men, In this will be placed
hundreds Of clippings and papers show
ing interesting data in connection with
the war and the part that Kenosha
county played in it. When the lists
have been completed they will be In
scribed III India ink on parchment.
framed and hung in one of the county
buildings. The various card catalogues
and other boxes of records will prob
ably be placed in the office Of the reg
lister of deeds where special library
filing cabinet will be provided for them.
1t is thought that when this great
work is completed the records of Ke-
nosha county soldiers will be more com
plete and in better condition than those
of any city in the state. The first pub
LEGATION of the list of soldiers, this be-
ing the list from the town of Bristol,
will be found in another column of to-
day Is paper.