Cilley, John K. (1840-1916)

Name:

Cilley, John K. (1840-1916)

Title:

1st Lieut., 11th N.H. Volunteers, Company I, act as regimental commissary and regimental quartermaster, Sept 1862 to fall 1863.
Brigade quartermaster, 2nd Brigade, 2nd DIvision, 9th Army Corps, fall 1863 to April 6, 1864.
Captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, commissioned by President Lincoln, April 7, 1864 to fall 1864.
Chief quartermaster, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, fall 1864 to close of war.
Brevett Major, U.S. Volunteers, 3 1/2 years.
President, NInth National Bank of New York (1893-1900)

Other Names:

Cilley, John Kelly

Born:

04/13/1840

Birthplace:

Nottingham, NH

Died:

12/05/1916

Death Location:

New York, NY

Residence:

Nottingham, NH
New Yory City, NY

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Military officer, fur/wool trade, banking

Father:

Cilley, Joseph Longfellow

Mother:

Kelly, Lavinia Bayley

Relations:

Grandfather, General Joseph Cilley, commanded N.H. volunteers in Continental Army.
Brother-in-Law of Lt. Arthur E. Hutchins, killed at Battle of Wilderness, May 5, 1864.
Business partnership with Washington Belt, Belt and Cilley Firm (1866-1881)
Belt and Cilley Firm became J. K. Cilley & Company in 1882 until John left and passed company to brother Joseph L. Cilley and partner N.D. Marshall.

Spouse:

Hutchins, Ellen R. (m. 1868)

Children:

Cilley, Authur H.
Cilley, Alice

Notes:

Leander Winslow Cogswell, A History of the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment, Volunteer Infantry in the Rebellion War. Republican Press Associates, Railroad Square: Concord, N.H., 1891, 183-185.

Albert Lord Belden, The Fur Trade of America and Some of the Men Who Made and Maintain It. The Peltries Publishing Co.: New York, 1917, 295.

Rev. Elliott C. Cogswell. History of Nottingham, Deerfield, and Northwood, NH. Manchester: John B. Clark, 1878, 781.