Lyman Guinnip

Birth Date

1828-08-31

Death Date

1892-08-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Danville, Illinois, soldier. Steuben County, New York native. Son of Lydia Guinnip. Married to Anna E. Palmer in 1857. Father of Horace D. Guinnip, Grace Guinnip. Served in the 1st Illinois Infantry Regiment as private during the Mexican-American War. Resident of Clark County in 1850. Resident of Danville in 1862. Served in the 79th Illinois Volunteer Infantry as colonel from August 28, 1862, to October 17, 1862, when he resigned.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, vol. 5 (Springfield: Phillips Brothers State Printers, 1901), 48.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Clark, York, p. 244A.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Illinois, Cook, Chicago, p. 171C.
"Colorful colonel's gravestone dedicated," Commercial News, November 12, 2017, Danville, Illinois (accessed May 28, 2019).
"Caught in an Elevator: Colonel Guinnip Instantly Killed at the Farmers' Dairy Company Building," The Inter Ocean, August 5, 1892, Chicago, Illinois (accessed May 28, 2019).
Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, March 17, 1863, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 6 (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2008), p. 207.
Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War and in the Mexican War, ed. Isaac H. Elliott (Springfield: Journal Company, Printers and Binders, 1902), p.207.

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