John B. Raymond, U.S. Congress

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John Baldwin Raymond, a Delegate from the Territory of Dakota; born in Lockport, Niagara County, N.Y., December 5, 1844; moved with his parents to Tazewell County, Ill., in 1853; attended the public schools and the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Business College in 1865 and 1866; enlisted as a private in the Thirty-first Regiment, Illinois Infantry, in 1861; promoted to captain of Company E of that regiment after the siege of Vicksburg in 1863; served throughout the war and settled in Mississippi; published the Mississippi Pilot at Jackson, Miss., during the reconstruction of that State and until 1877; assistant State treasurer 1873-1875 appointed United States marshal of Dakota Territory in 1877, with headquarters at Yankton, later at Fargo, and served until 1882; declined a reappointment; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884; engaged in wheat raising; died in Fargo, Dak. (now North Dakota), January 3, 1886; interment in the public vault in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

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John Raymond served in the Union Army during the American Civil War in the 31st Illinois Infantry Regiment. He entered service on 2 Nov 1861 in Peru, IL with the rank of Private in Company I. He was promoted to Sergeant Major. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 23 March 1863. Promoted to Captain of Company E on 4 October 1863 in Vicksburg, MS and mustered out on 31 Dec 1864.

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