Company D, 2nd New York Cavalry-Civil War
Census: 1900 8th Avenue East, 4WD, Aberdeen, Brown, SD
Census: 1850 Manlius, Onondaga, NY
Census: 1860 Onondaga, Onondaga, NY
Occupation: 1900 Carpenter
Burial: 1928 Civil War Veteran Section, Chico Cemetery, Chico, Butte, CA
Note: The source referenced lists him as Daniel Marsh Birdseye. "Second child of Victory James Birdseye and Betsey Ann Marsh."
1850 census Manlius, Onondaga, NY: B. J. Birdseye, aged 36, farmer, real estate valued $13,000, bp NY; Betsy A. aged 32, bp NY; Mortimer B. aged 9; Daniel M. aged 7; Mary aged 5; Henriette aged 2 -- all born NY.
1860 census Onondaga, Onondaga, NY: Victory J. Birdseye, aged 46, county clerk, real estate valued $4,000, personal property $1,000, bp NY; Betsey A. aged 42, bp NY; Mortimer aged 19, recorder; Daniel aged 17; Mary aged 14; Henrietta aged 12; Emma aged 10; Victory aged 6; George aged 4; and Lucien aged 10 months -- all born NY.
1890 Veterans Schedule: Daniel M. Birdseye, residing Ipswich, Edmunds, SD, 1st Lieutenant 1861-1866: Private, Company H, 14th NY Infantry, enlisted May 4, 1861, discharged May 23, 1863, service 2 years 19 days; 1st Sergeant, Company D, 185th NY Infantry, enlisted Sept. 5, 1864, discharged Jan. 24 1866, service 4 months 19 days; 1st Lieutenant, Company D, 2nd NY Cavalry, enlisted Feb. 21, 1865, discharged June 23, 1865, service 4 months 2 days.-Source: Ancestry.com. 1890 Veterans Schedules [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States. Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War. M123, 118 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.
1900 census 8th Avenue East, 4WD, Aberdeen, Brown, SD: Daniel M. Birdseye, aged 57, born May 1843, carpenter, bp NY, both parents NY; May H. aged 55, born Oct. 1844, married 32 years, four children w/two living, bp PA, both parents Scotland; Albert S. aged 14, born Nov. 1885, bp SD, father NY, mother PA.
D.M Birdseye, aged 68, born New York, occupation carpenter, joined the Major General Henry W. Halleck Post No. 19, GAR, of Chico in 1906. He died on May 26, 1928. Source: "Chico's Grand Army of the Republic", transcribed Descriptive Book of Halleck Post 19, by Paradise Genealogical Society, published in the Goldmine, Volume 32:2 – Fall 1999.
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The Chico Enterprise, Chico, CA, Saturday Evening, May 26, 1928: "D.M. Birdseye Called By Death. The ranks of the few remaining Civil War veterans in this city were depleted by one at 11 o'clock this morning when Daniel D. [sic] Birdseye, 86, answered the final summons at the home of his son, A.S. Birdseye, at 4706 Sacramento avenue.
"The deceased was born in Pompeii, New York in 1842 and has resided in this city for the last 22 years and was a member of Halleck Post, G.A.R., No. 19. At the close of the Civil War in which he took an active part he was given the rank of captain. He was a member of Company H, 14th New York state volunteers from which he was discharged on May 23, 1863, and also a member of company D, second regiment of New York calvary. He was honorably discharged from this company on June 23, 1865.
"On March 1 of this year, the deceased returned from a ten months trip in the east where he attended the funeral of a brother in Oberlin, Ohio, and visited a son, M.F. Birdseye, in Minneapolis. This trip was made by him alone in spite of the fact that he was almost totally blind.
"Besides the two sons already mentioned, a brother, L.J. Birdseye of Spokane, Washington, and a sister, Miss Henrietta Birdseye of Oberlin, Ohio, survive. Three grandchildren also survive. Funeral arrangements which are in charge of the Westfall Funeral home are not yet completed."
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Chico Record (Chico, California) 12 Apr 1929, Friday Page 1: Graves of Chico Civil War Veterans Marked By Stones. Graves of 13 Civil War veterans were marked with appropriate tombstones yesterday when W.M. Bundy, adjutant of Halleck Post No. 19, Grand Army of the Republic, his son, Fred Gwinnup, and his grandson, George Gwinnup, placed the stones in the Grand Army plot in the Chico cemetery.
Mr. Bundy, as adjutant of the Chico post, supervised the work. The stones were furnished by the federal government and were sent to Chico from Boston.
Those whose graves were marked follow: George W. Tipton, R.B. Richards, D.M. Birdseye, John M. Irwin, C.C. Maltby, Samuel Baker, John Sauber, D.D. Cornick, Hugh W. Hughes, Watis Batchelor, Henry M. Stevens, Frank Popplewell and N.W. Henderson.
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See the completed biography on Daniel Birdseye, by Vanessa Leong, entitled "From Soldier to Carpenter: A Journey Across America with Civil War Veteran Daniel Marsh Birdseye" as part of a California State University, Chico Archival History project, fall semester, 2013, under the direction of Professor Mike Magliari. Electronic version and hard print copies are available at Meriam Library, CSU, Chico and Chico Cemetery Association.
Census: 1900 8th Avenue East, 4WD, Aberdeen, Brown, SD
Census: 1850 Manlius, Onondaga, NY
Census: 1860 Onondaga, Onondaga, NY
Occupation: 1900 Carpenter
Burial: 1928 Civil War Veteran Section, Chico Cemetery, Chico, Butte, CA
Note: The source referenced lists him as Daniel Marsh Birdseye. "Second child of Victory James Birdseye and Betsey Ann Marsh."
1850 census Manlius, Onondaga, NY: B. J. Birdseye, aged 36, farmer, real estate valued $13,000, bp NY; Betsy A. aged 32, bp NY; Mortimer B. aged 9; Daniel M. aged 7; Mary aged 5; Henriette aged 2 -- all born NY.
1860 census Onondaga, Onondaga, NY: Victory J. Birdseye, aged 46, county clerk, real estate valued $4,000, personal property $1,000, bp NY; Betsey A. aged 42, bp NY; Mortimer aged 19, recorder; Daniel aged 17; Mary aged 14; Henrietta aged 12; Emma aged 10; Victory aged 6; George aged 4; and Lucien aged 10 months -- all born NY.
1890 Veterans Schedule: Daniel M. Birdseye, residing Ipswich, Edmunds, SD, 1st Lieutenant 1861-1866: Private, Company H, 14th NY Infantry, enlisted May 4, 1861, discharged May 23, 1863, service 2 years 19 days; 1st Sergeant, Company D, 185th NY Infantry, enlisted Sept. 5, 1864, discharged Jan. 24 1866, service 4 months 19 days; 1st Lieutenant, Company D, 2nd NY Cavalry, enlisted Feb. 21, 1865, discharged June 23, 1865, service 4 months 2 days.-Source: Ancestry.com. 1890 Veterans Schedules [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States. Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War. M123, 118 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.
1900 census 8th Avenue East, 4WD, Aberdeen, Brown, SD: Daniel M. Birdseye, aged 57, born May 1843, carpenter, bp NY, both parents NY; May H. aged 55, born Oct. 1844, married 32 years, four children w/two living, bp PA, both parents Scotland; Albert S. aged 14, born Nov. 1885, bp SD, father NY, mother PA.
D.M Birdseye, aged 68, born New York, occupation carpenter, joined the Major General Henry W. Halleck Post No. 19, GAR, of Chico in 1906. He died on May 26, 1928. Source: "Chico's Grand Army of the Republic", transcribed Descriptive Book of Halleck Post 19, by Paradise Genealogical Society, published in the Goldmine, Volume 32:2 – Fall 1999.
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The Chico Enterprise, Chico, CA, Saturday Evening, May 26, 1928: "D.M. Birdseye Called By Death. The ranks of the few remaining Civil War veterans in this city were depleted by one at 11 o'clock this morning when Daniel D. [sic] Birdseye, 86, answered the final summons at the home of his son, A.S. Birdseye, at 4706 Sacramento avenue.
"The deceased was born in Pompeii, New York in 1842 and has resided in this city for the last 22 years and was a member of Halleck Post, G.A.R., No. 19. At the close of the Civil War in which he took an active part he was given the rank of captain. He was a member of Company H, 14th New York state volunteers from which he was discharged on May 23, 1863, and also a member of company D, second regiment of New York calvary. He was honorably discharged from this company on June 23, 1865.
"On March 1 of this year, the deceased returned from a ten months trip in the east where he attended the funeral of a brother in Oberlin, Ohio, and visited a son, M.F. Birdseye, in Minneapolis. This trip was made by him alone in spite of the fact that he was almost totally blind.
"Besides the two sons already mentioned, a brother, L.J. Birdseye of Spokane, Washington, and a sister, Miss Henrietta Birdseye of Oberlin, Ohio, survive. Three grandchildren also survive. Funeral arrangements which are in charge of the Westfall Funeral home are not yet completed."
~~~
Chico Record (Chico, California) 12 Apr 1929, Friday Page 1: Graves of Chico Civil War Veterans Marked By Stones. Graves of 13 Civil War veterans were marked with appropriate tombstones yesterday when W.M. Bundy, adjutant of Halleck Post No. 19, Grand Army of the Republic, his son, Fred Gwinnup, and his grandson, George Gwinnup, placed the stones in the Grand Army plot in the Chico cemetery.
Mr. Bundy, as adjutant of the Chico post, supervised the work. The stones were furnished by the federal government and were sent to Chico from Boston.
Those whose graves were marked follow: George W. Tipton, R.B. Richards, D.M. Birdseye, John M. Irwin, C.C. Maltby, Samuel Baker, John Sauber, D.D. Cornick, Hugh W. Hughes, Watis Batchelor, Henry M. Stevens, Frank Popplewell and N.W. Henderson.
~~~
See the completed biography on Daniel Birdseye, by Vanessa Leong, entitled "From Soldier to Carpenter: A Journey Across America with Civil War Veteran Daniel Marsh Birdseye" as part of a California State University, Chico Archival History project, fall semester, 2013, under the direction of Professor Mike Magliari. Electronic version and hard print copies are available at Meriam Library, CSU, Chico and Chico Cemetery Association.
Company D, 2nd New York Cavalry-Civil War
Census: 1900 8th Avenue East, 4WD, Aberdeen, Brown, SD
Census: 1850 Manlius, Onondaga, NY
Census: 1860 Onondaga, Onondaga, NY
Occupation: 1900 Carpenter
Burial: 1928 Civil War Veteran Section, Chico Cemetery, Chico, Butte, CA
Note: The source referenced lists him as Daniel Marsh Birdseye. "Second child of Victory James Birdseye and Betsey Ann Marsh."
1850 census Manlius, Onondaga, NY: B. J. Birdseye, aged 36, farmer, real estate valued $13,000, bp NY; Betsy A. aged 32, bp NY; Mortimer B. aged 9; Daniel M. aged 7; Mary aged 5; Henriette aged 2 -- all born NY.
1860 census Onondaga, Onondaga, NY: Victory J. Birdseye, aged 46, county clerk, real estate valued $4,000, personal property $1,000, bp NY; Betsey A. aged 42, bp NY; Mortimer aged 19, recorder; Daniel aged 17; Mary aged 14; Henrietta aged 12; Emma aged 10; Victory aged 6; George aged 4; and Lucien aged 10 months -- all born NY.
1890 Veterans Schedule: Daniel M. Birdseye, residing Ipswich, Edmunds, SD, 1st Lieutenant 1861-1866: Private, Company H, 14th NY Infantry, enlisted May 4, 1861, discharged May 23, 1863, service 2 years 19 days; 1st Sergeant, Company D, 185th NY Infantry, enlisted Sept. 5, 1864, discharged Jan. 24 1866, service 4 months 19 days; 1st Lieutenant, Company D, 2nd NY Cavalry, enlisted Feb. 21, 1865, discharged June 23, 1865, service 4 months 2 days.-Source: Ancestry.com. 1890 Veterans Schedules [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States. Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War. M123, 118 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.
1900 census 8th Avenue East, 4WD, Aberdeen, Brown, SD: Daniel M. Birdseye, aged 57, born May 1843, carpenter, bp NY, both parents NY; May H. aged 55, born Oct. 1844, married 32 years, four children w/two living, bp PA, both parents Scotland; Albert S. aged 14, born Nov. 1885, bp SD, father NY, mother PA.
D.M Birdseye, aged 68, born New York, occupation carpenter, joined the Major General Henry W. Halleck Post No. 19, GAR, of Chico in 1906. He died on May 26, 1928. Source: "Chico's Grand Army of the Republic", transcribed Descriptive Book of Halleck Post 19, by Paradise Genealogical Society, published in the Goldmine, Volume 32:2 – Fall 1999.
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The Chico Enterprise, Chico, CA, Saturday Evening, May 26, 1928: "D.M. Birdseye Called By Death. The ranks of the few remaining Civil War veterans in this city were depleted by one at 11 o'clock this morning when Daniel D. [sic] Birdseye, 86, answered the final summons at the home of his son, A.S. Birdseye, at 4706 Sacramento avenue.
"The deceased was born in Pompeii, New York in 1842 and has resided in this city for the last 22 years and was a member of Halleck Post, G.A.R., No. 19. At the close of the Civil War in which he took an active part he was given the rank of captain. He was a member of Company H, 14th New York state volunteers from which he was discharged on May 23, 1863, and also a member of company D, second regiment of New York calvary. He was honorably discharged from this company on June 23, 1865.
"On March 1 of this year, the deceased returned from a ten months trip in the east where he attended the funeral of a brother in Oberlin, Ohio, and visited a son, M.F. Birdseye, in Minneapolis. This trip was made by him alone in spite of the fact that he was almost totally blind.
"Besides the two sons already mentioned, a brother, L.J. Birdseye of Spokane, Washington, and a sister, Miss Henrietta Birdseye of Oberlin, Ohio, survive. Three grandchildren also survive. Funeral arrangements which are in charge of the Westfall Funeral home are not yet completed."
~~~
Chico Record (Chico, California) 12 Apr 1929, Friday Page 1: Graves of Chico Civil War Veterans Marked By Stones. Graves of 13 Civil War veterans were marked with appropriate tombstones yesterday when W.M. Bundy, adjutant of Halleck Post No. 19, Grand Army of the Republic, his son, Fred Gwinnup, and his grandson, George Gwinnup, placed the stones in the Grand Army plot in the Chico cemetery.
Mr. Bundy, as adjutant of the Chico post, supervised the work. The stones were furnished by the federal government and were sent to Chico from Boston.
Those whose graves were marked follow: George W. Tipton, R.B. Richards, D.M. Birdseye, John M. Irwin, C.C. Maltby, Samuel Baker, John Sauber, D.D. Cornick, Hugh W. Hughes, Watis Batchelor, Henry M. Stevens, Frank Popplewell and N.W. Henderson.
~~~
See the completed biography on Daniel Birdseye, by Vanessa Leong, entitled "From Soldier to Carpenter: A Journey Across America with Civil War Veteran Daniel Marsh Birdseye" as part of a California State University, Chico Archival History project, fall semester, 2013, under the direction of Professor Mike Magliari. Electronic version and hard print copies are available at Meriam Library, CSU, Chico and Chico Cemetery Association.
Census: 1900 8th Avenue East, 4WD, Aberdeen, Brown, SD
Census: 1850 Manlius, Onondaga, NY
Census: 1860 Onondaga, Onondaga, NY
Occupation: 1900 Carpenter
Burial: 1928 Civil War Veteran Section, Chico Cemetery, Chico, Butte, CA
Note: The source referenced lists him as Daniel Marsh Birdseye. "Second child of Victory James Birdseye and Betsey Ann Marsh."
1850 census Manlius, Onondaga, NY: B. J. Birdseye, aged 36, farmer, real estate valued $13,000, bp NY; Betsy A. aged 32, bp NY; Mortimer B. aged 9; Daniel M. aged 7; Mary aged 5; Henriette aged 2 -- all born NY.
1860 census Onondaga, Onondaga, NY: Victory J. Birdseye, aged 46, county clerk, real estate valued $4,000, personal property $1,000, bp NY; Betsey A. aged 42, bp NY; Mortimer aged 19, recorder; Daniel aged 17; Mary aged 14; Henrietta aged 12; Emma aged 10; Victory aged 6; George aged 4; and Lucien aged 10 months -- all born NY.
1890 Veterans Schedule: Daniel M. Birdseye, residing Ipswich, Edmunds, SD, 1st Lieutenant 1861-1866: Private, Company H, 14th NY Infantry, enlisted May 4, 1861, discharged May 23, 1863, service 2 years 19 days; 1st Sergeant, Company D, 185th NY Infantry, enlisted Sept. 5, 1864, discharged Jan. 24 1866, service 4 months 19 days; 1st Lieutenant, Company D, 2nd NY Cavalry, enlisted Feb. 21, 1865, discharged June 23, 1865, service 4 months 2 days.-Source: Ancestry.com. 1890 Veterans Schedules [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States. Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War. M123, 118 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.
1900 census 8th Avenue East, 4WD, Aberdeen, Brown, SD: Daniel M. Birdseye, aged 57, born May 1843, carpenter, bp NY, both parents NY; May H. aged 55, born Oct. 1844, married 32 years, four children w/two living, bp PA, both parents Scotland; Albert S. aged 14, born Nov. 1885, bp SD, father NY, mother PA.
D.M Birdseye, aged 68, born New York, occupation carpenter, joined the Major General Henry W. Halleck Post No. 19, GAR, of Chico in 1906. He died on May 26, 1928. Source: "Chico's Grand Army of the Republic", transcribed Descriptive Book of Halleck Post 19, by Paradise Genealogical Society, published in the Goldmine, Volume 32:2 – Fall 1999.
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The Chico Enterprise, Chico, CA, Saturday Evening, May 26, 1928: "D.M. Birdseye Called By Death. The ranks of the few remaining Civil War veterans in this city were depleted by one at 11 o'clock this morning when Daniel D. [sic] Birdseye, 86, answered the final summons at the home of his son, A.S. Birdseye, at 4706 Sacramento avenue.
"The deceased was born in Pompeii, New York in 1842 and has resided in this city for the last 22 years and was a member of Halleck Post, G.A.R., No. 19. At the close of the Civil War in which he took an active part he was given the rank of captain. He was a member of Company H, 14th New York state volunteers from which he was discharged on May 23, 1863, and also a member of company D, second regiment of New York calvary. He was honorably discharged from this company on June 23, 1865.
"On March 1 of this year, the deceased returned from a ten months trip in the east where he attended the funeral of a brother in Oberlin, Ohio, and visited a son, M.F. Birdseye, in Minneapolis. This trip was made by him alone in spite of the fact that he was almost totally blind.
"Besides the two sons already mentioned, a brother, L.J. Birdseye of Spokane, Washington, and a sister, Miss Henrietta Birdseye of Oberlin, Ohio, survive. Three grandchildren also survive. Funeral arrangements which are in charge of the Westfall Funeral home are not yet completed."
~~~
Chico Record (Chico, California) 12 Apr 1929, Friday Page 1: Graves of Chico Civil War Veterans Marked By Stones. Graves of 13 Civil War veterans were marked with appropriate tombstones yesterday when W.M. Bundy, adjutant of Halleck Post No. 19, Grand Army of the Republic, his son, Fred Gwinnup, and his grandson, George Gwinnup, placed the stones in the Grand Army plot in the Chico cemetery.
Mr. Bundy, as adjutant of the Chico post, supervised the work. The stones were furnished by the federal government and were sent to Chico from Boston.
Those whose graves were marked follow: George W. Tipton, R.B. Richards, D.M. Birdseye, John M. Irwin, C.C. Maltby, Samuel Baker, John Sauber, D.D. Cornick, Hugh W. Hughes, Watis Batchelor, Henry M. Stevens, Frank Popplewell and N.W. Henderson.
~~~
See the completed biography on Daniel Birdseye, by Vanessa Leong, entitled "From Soldier to Carpenter: A Journey Across America with Civil War Veteran Daniel Marsh Birdseye" as part of a California State University, Chico Archival History project, fall semester, 2013, under the direction of Professor Mike Magliari. Electronic version and hard print copies are available at Meriam Library, CSU, Chico and Chico Cemetery Association.
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