INDEX TO
BIOGRAPHIES
JOHN LAMOREAU
| L'Amoreaux is the way the family name was spelled when Isaac was born in France in 1744 in a Huguenot family and he married Elizabeth whose family name is not given. John, their ninth child, was born June 10, 1794, and married Edith whose family name is not given and their son Daniel R. was born November 10, 1829, at Central Bridge, Schoharie county, New York. The family were very early colonial settlers in America. Daniel, who was to become a highly prized citizen in Linn County, was married first to Catherine M. Lamont by whom he had no children. His next marriage was December 29, 1857, to Sarah L. Ives, born Cuyahoga county, Ohio, by whom six children came to him, being George W. Lamoreau who married Nellie Connor of Holden, Missouri; Charles N. married Ora Davis; Lilian Edith married John Rolla Mentzer; and John H. married Rose Clarke; Kate Claribel married Roy Hawkins; and Howard E. married Nellie Osborn. The name became Anglicized so it was Dan Lamoreau to us. Dan learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. In 1855 he went to Walworth county, Wisconsin, where he operated a sash and door factory. When the Civil War came on he enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers and was in Sherman's famous march to the sea and Mr. Lamoreau's capacity to handle big affairs is proven by his having charge of the seventy-five thousand horses on that great military expedition. Governor Alexander W. Randolph of Wisconsin signed his first commission as captain. He was mustered out in 1864 but was called back to serve a veteran enlistment and in 1866 President Andrew Johnson signed a beautiful commission making him a major. In 1890 he enum-erated mortgage indebtedness of Linn, Miami, Bourbon and Franklin counties for the census bureau and served as sheriff and other local offices. He brought his family to Linn County in 1864. He was a true type of the heroes of the Civil War.
(History of Linnn County, by William Ansel Mitchell, 1928, Pages 355-356) |