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of Marmaton Township,Kansas. Representative to the State Legislature and County Commissioner was a citizen of Allen County, Kansas. He moved to Allen County in 1879. He migrated to Kansas from Champaign County, Illinois to which State he had moved some time after the Civil War. He was born in Jackson County, Michigan. He was reared in Licking County, Ohio. He was the son of Sandford Lacey who went into Michigan from New York and died in 1855. Edward grew up in the country and was educated in the District School. He enlisted August 12, 1862 in Company A, 17th Ohio Infantry, Col J. M. Connell comanding. His regiment was mustered in at Zanesville and was ordered into Kentucky. Its second important engagement was the one at Perryville, Kentucky, in October, 1862. Edward was in the battle of Shiloh and in the Murfreesboro fight, where he received a wound through the right thigh in the second day's engagement.
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