Col. Irving Montgomery Avery, USA

In 1861, he, with William B. Barton, raised and largely equipped the 48th regiment of New York volunteers; he went to the front as regimental quartermaster; was soon made quartermaster of the second brigade, tenth army corps; was with Admiral Dupont at Port Royal ; was with Grant before Petersburg as quartermaster of the tenth army corps, having been promoted to the rank of colonel. He was a member of the Loyal Legion, of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. On his mother's said he was descended from Elder Brewster of the Mayflower." He was president of a commercial agency, New York City.

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 645, Vol. II, p.1015-16