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| Albert H. GANONG, farmer,sec. 2, Grant Tp., was born Jan. 22, 1841, in
Hector, Tompkins Co., N.Y. and is the son of John and Margaret GANONG. The
father was a farmer, and was born June 27, 1798, in Orange Co., N.Y., and
died Nov. 4, 1873. The mother was born in Tompkins County, in 1810, and
died Feb. 17, 1841. Mr. GANONG was but 26 days old when he was deprived of maternal care, and was placed in charge of relatives until he was 10 years old, when he went to live with a man named J. C. C. SMITH, residing in Seneca Co., N.Y., under whose supervision He remained for nine years. He was engaged in the capacity of farm laborer three years. In the second year of the war of the Rebellion he responded to the sentiment of patriotism that ruled the hour, and quickened into life the young and true impulses of the best blood in the land, enlisting Aug. 14, 1862, in Co. A, 141st N.Y. Vol. Inf., and was assigned to the Department of the East, until after the battle of Gettysburg, when his regiment was transferred to the Western Department, and was ordered to Chattanooga for the relief of Gen. ROSENCRANS. The first engagements there were those of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. A heavy battle was fought at Resaca, where the regiment suffered a loss of 101 killed and wounded. They pressed on amid continued skirmishing to Altoona Station, where more heavy fighting took place. This was the last active service of Mr. GANONG, as he was attacked with illness and sent to the rear. He did not recover sufficiently to rejoin his command, and was discharged June 1, 1865. He remained in his native State about six months, going thence to Fayette Co., Iowa, and worked as a farm laborer two years. He came thence to Grant Tp., and was occupied two years in lumbering. In 1869 he entered and proved a claim of 80 acres, under the homestead law, which is one of the best tracts of land in the vicinity, in location and quality of soil. Mr. GANONG was married in Cortland, Kent Co., Mich., Dec. 23, 1876 to Catherine HAYES. She was born Nov. 23, 1843, in Spring Harbor, Jackson Co., Mich., and is the daughter of Joseph F. and Elizabeth B. HAYES, who are still living. There is one child, Nora M. GANONG, born April 26, 1879. He is a Republican in political connections, and is a member of the G. A. R. and of the Masonic fraternity. |