Bio:

JOHN ALYEA, of Winneconne, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 7, at Omro, a pioneer of Winnebago county, was born in Ohio, in 1817, and was reared on a farm. He was married in 1848, to Hannah Lumley, a native of England, who came from that country with her parents when four years old. Mr. Alyea came to Wisconsin in 1849, locating in the town of Winneconne, where he was a farmer until he became a soldier.

He enlisted August 14, 1862, at Oshkosh, in Company B, 21st Wisconsin Infantry, for three years, or during the war. Before leaving the State he was transferred to the Fond du Lac Company, " F," remaining in that organization about six months when he was transferred at Mitchellville, Tenn., serving two years and was again transferred to Company I, 1st U. S. Veteran Engineer Corps, in which he served through the war. Prior to his exchange, he fought at Perryville and in the skirmishes preceding the fight at Stone River, and was in the action of Dec. 30th, when Wheeler's cavalry attacked the brigade train. The command to which he was transferred was attached to the Army of the Cumberland and was in the actions at Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain, and he went thence to Hoover's Gap, being in the battles of Resaca, and others that preceded the siege and finally returned to Chattanooga where he was discharged June 27, 1865. The work of the engineers in the war included repairs and building of fortifications, felling trees and constructing and removing obstacles and contributing every variety of mechanical skill to the general result. Mr. Alyea returned to Winneconne where he has since resided.

He is a decided Republican in political principles and a citizen who has sustained his record as a soldier in his subsequent career. Mr. Alyea and his wife have several children named as follows: —Elizabeth, Mary, Nancy, Louis, Alice, John Franklin, Susan Delia, Ellen, Ettie Melinda and George. Mr. Alyea left his wife and nine small children to do duty for his country. Mrs. Alyea struggled successfully with many obstacles to keep the family together, suffering many hardships and privations, contingent upon her husband's absence and the small pittance of depreciated money he received as recompense.
(Soldiers' and Citizens' Album of Biographical Record of Wisconsin, Volume 1, Pgs 478 & 479))