Biography of Herman E. Stannard, pages 1017 / 1018.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago. 1885.

Herman E. Stannard was born in Wyoming County, N.Y., Sept. 19, 1836, a son 
of Grinnell Stannard, a native of Scotland, who came to America in 1806 and 
settled in New York, and in 1840 moved to Allegany County, where he died in 
1873.  Our subject left home at the age of seventeen years and went to 
Joliet, Ill., and the same fall to Galesburg, and was employed in laying the 
track of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincey Railroad.  He was fireman on the 
first engine that ran into Galesburg.  He subsequently worked on the steamer 
New York, that ran from St. Louis to Keokuk, and went to Yankton, D.T., in 
1856.  Omaha at that time was a pile of wood, two flat-boats and wood-
chopper’s shanty.  He then returned to the employ of the Chicago, Burlington 
& Quincy Railroad for a few months, and then started for home, but on the 
way changed his mind and worked for the Michigan Central Railroad till 
November,1857. He then was fireman on the Erie Railroad on a switch-engine 
two years, and on the road a year.  He enlisted in the service of his 
country in Company G, Twenty-seventh New York Infantry, and participated 
in the first battle at Bull Run, West Point, and the seven days’ battle.  
He was wounded the second day of the battle, and was taken to Fort Wood on 
Bedlow’s Island, and from there went home on a furlough.  After the war, 
in 1866, Mr. Stannard came West as far as Michigan and lived in Linden 
five years, and in Whitehall a year.  He had charge of the machinery in a 
tannery in the latter place.  He then lived a year in Portland, Mich., and 
in 1874 entered the employ of the Wabash Railroad, beginning as pump 
repairer.  He now has charge of the pumps on 360 miles of the road.  He 
came to Butler, April 25, 1882l.  Mr. Stannard was married Feb. 4, 1863, 
to Martha Willcox, of Petoskey, Mich., a daughter of Abram Willcox.  Their 
only child, Jennie is deceased.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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