Isaac Byam (b. 1838)

BYAM, FASSATT

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 7/5/2003 at 11:28:22

Byam, Isaac, farmer, Section 15 (Oran township); PO Oelwein; was born in Potter Co., Penn. 1838; located in this county in 1859. Married Delia A. Fassatt in 1857; she was born in Wyoming Co., Penn. in 1841; have two children --- Kattie, born Dec. 20, 1864; Lotta, born June 15, 1868. He is a Democrat. Owns eighty acres of land in Section 4, worth $15 per acre; rents 240 acres which he cultivates. Enlisted in the 153rd I. V. I., Feb, 1864, and served to the close of the war; was mustered out with his regiment at Memphis, Tenn., in 1865.

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