Lanphier, Daniel 1835-1921

LANPHIER, MC DONALD

Posted By: Jodi McKinley (email)
Date: 7/17/2004 at 08:33:29

PIONEER OF COUNTY DIES
DANIEL LANPHIER PASSES AWAY THIS MORNING

Daniel Lanphier, eighty-six years old, died at the home of his son, L.B. Lanphier at Killduff Saturday morning after an illness of eight weeks, which was brought on by his advanced age.
Several weeks ago, he developed stomach trouble but it was thought that he had recovered from this. Further complications set in however, and death occurred at an early hour Saturday. With his death, Jasper County residents will mourn the loss of a thrifty and prominent pioneer who came here among the first settlers to blaze the way for the now prosperous Mt. Zion community.
Daniel Lanphier was born in Onondaga County, New York July 6, 1835 and was the seventh child in a family of thirteen, all of whom have preceded him in death.

In 1852 he married Anna McDonald and soon began on their journey in prairie schooner to Jasper County and arrived here two years later in the spring of ’54. To this union eight children were born.

When Civil War was declared, he took up arms in the cause of the North, enlisting October 17, 1861 with Company B, Thirteenth Iowa Volunteers Infantry, and marched away under the leadership of Captain Thomas H. Miller, who later was killed in the Battle of Shiloh and was the first soldier brought back to Newton for burial. The Company then took part in a number of engagements under Captain Harvey Skiff, a prominent Newton attorney.

Mr. Lanphier, who was next to the last man in his company, served with such men as George B. Hunter, David Stover, J. B. Eyerly, James Wilson and John L. Mathews, who were once well known men in Newton. The lone survivor of Company B is Beriah Battles of Mitchellville.

At the time of Mr. Lanphier’s enlistment he was the father of five children. He was sworn into service at Davenport. The first winter his company spent at Jefferson City, Missouri, but were later ordered to St. Louis, where they took a steamer for Pittsburgh Landing, where the regiment lost 125 men. Mr. Lanphier was also at the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, when Price’s army surrendered. He was also in the Siege of Vicksburg and at Micijack Creek near Atlanta. Here he was wounded in the leg and was sent to the hospital at Maryetta, then to Rome, Georgia, and from there, home. At the end of this illness he reported for duty at Davenport, but was found unfit for service and was again sent to the hospital where he remained until the close of the war. He was not discharged from the service until five months after the close of the war, owing to the papers being lost by his captain.
After his return home he took up farming and carpentering and since that time he has lived at his home at Mt. Zion with the exception of the time spent in the home of his son. His wife died six years ago. He leaves one daughter, Sarah Lanphier, of Killduff, three sons, LB Lanphier and Edward Lanphier of Killduff and James Lanphier of near Oskaloosa. He was preceded in death by two daughters, Frances and Elma, who died after they had grown to young womanhood, and two sons, Albert, who died when but four years old, and Jared, who died in 1896.

Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock in Killduff. Burial will be made in the Mt. Zion Cemetery.