BIO:
WILLIAM HARRISON NEEDHAM--William Harrison Needham had an unusual military record. As a volunteer in Company D, Twenty second Iowa Infantry, he rendered service in Mississippi, at Port Gibson, at Raymond, Champion's Hill, Jackson, Black River Bridge, and Vicksburg.
Later he was sent to Louisiana and then to Texas. He was one of six members of his regiment to receive the commendation of General Ulysses S. Grant for bravery in service at Vicksburg.
Needham was born in Ohio in 1841. He came to Iowa as a lad, and worked as a printer for his brother, later Lieutenant Governor John R. Needham, on the Oskaloosa Herald. When war clouds hovered, young Needham went to Albia to work on a newspaper. A little later he was at Iowa City where he enlisted in the Twenty second Iowa Infantry under the command of Colonel William M. Stone.
At the close of the war he bought an interest in the Oskaloosa Herald, but in 1878 he moved to Sigourney, where he published The News, and at various times served as postmaster, a member of the school board, and a member of the city council.
He was a member of Grand Army Post No. 167, at Sigourney. At the Annual Encampment at Marshalltown in June, 1924, he was elected Department Commander. On October 15th of that year, when his term of office was less than half finished, death came, and none could say that he had not lived well.
Source: The Iowa Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, page 155
BIO:
WILLIAM HARRISON NEEDHAM--William Harrison Needham had an unusual military record. As a volunteer in Company D, Twenty second Iowa Infantry, he rendered service in Mississippi, at Port Gibson, at Raymond, Champion's Hill, Jackson, Black River Bridge, and Vicksburg.
Later he was sent to Louisiana and then to Texas. He was one of six members of his regiment to receive the commendation of General Ulysses S. Grant for bravery in service at Vicksburg.
Needham was born in Ohio in 1841. He came to Iowa as a lad, and worked as a printer for his brother, later Lieutenant Governor John R. Needham, on the Oskaloosa Herald. When war clouds hovered, young Needham went to Albia to work on a newspaper. A little later he was at Iowa City where he enlisted in the Twenty second Iowa Infantry under the command of Colonel William M. Stone.
At the close of the war he bought an interest in the Oskaloosa Herald, but in 1878 he moved to Sigourney, where he published The News, and at various times served as postmaster, a member of the school board, and a member of the city council.
He was a member of Grand Army Post No. 167, at Sigourney. At the Annual Encampment at Marshalltown in June, 1924, he was elected Department Commander. On October 15th of that year, when his term of office was less than half finished, death came, and none could say that he had not lived well.
Source: The Iowa Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, page 155
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