
When Hiram W. Day was born on 13 March 1835, in Hermon, St.
Lawrence, New York, United States, his father, John R Day, was 29 and his
mother, Jemima Mills, was 29. He married Emily A. Badlam on 14 August 1864.
They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in St. Lawrence, New
York, United States in 1860 and Hermon, Hermon, St. Lawrence, New York, United
States in 1905. He died in 1917, at the age of 82, and was buried in Old Hermon
Cemetery, Hermon, St. Lawrence, New York, United States.
HERMON, Dec. 4.—Major Hiram W. Day, one of the best known veterans in
St. Lawrence county died at his home in this village Monday after, a long
period of failing health, aged 82 years. He served throughout the Civil War and
was brevetted for gallantry in action. Major Hiram W. Day was born in Hermon,
March 13, 1835. His parents were John and Jennie Day, who settled in the Day
neighborhood in 1825, and were among the pioneers of the town. Hiram W.,
attended the Gouverneur Wesleyan seminary, which he paid his tuition by acting
as bell ringer and at the Potsdam institute, where he worked his way. He
studied law in the office of Judson & Powell in Ogdensburg, and was
admitted to the bar in April 1859. In 1862, when President Lincoln issued his
call for 30,000 troops, Col. Judd, Captain Paine and Mr. Day enlisted a large
part of the men who composed the 106th New York Infantry. Mr. Day went out as
first lieutenant of Company A, Aug. 27, 1862, but had Command of the company
and continued to command it until commissioned as captain, March 3 1863. At the
close of the war Major Day went to St. Louis and entered the insurance
business. He later removed to Peoria, Ill., and became manager of the Peoria
Evening Review, with Baldwin and Robert J. Burdette. In 1873, he returned to
Ogdensburg and in 1874, to Hermon, where he again took up the practice of law.
In politics he was a Democrat since 1879, and had frequently been a delegate to
various conventions of his party. He was a member of the various Masonic
degrees. The death of Major Day leaves but four survivors of Company A, of the
106th Infantry living in Hermon. The members of this company held a reunion
each year at their homes. The surviving members of the company now are E. 0.
Reynolds, Tyler A Spencer, Charles Hall and Lewis H. Fuller. He was married on
Aug. 14, 1865, to Emma, daughter of Edward and Adaline Badlam of Ogdensburg.
Besides his widow he leaves an adopted daughter, Mrs. Frank S. MacKee, of
Hermon; a brother, Dr. C P. Day, of Hermon, and four sisters, Mrs. Daniel
Powell, of Rensselaer Falls; Mrs. Leonard Farmer, Oregon; Mrs. Harry Alverson,
of Springfield, Mass., and Mrs. W. S. Scripter of Hermon. Funeral services will
be held from his late home tomorrow at 1:30. The services will be conducted by
the W. T. Rice Post, G.A.R. Interment will be made i n the Hermon cemetery.
DAY,
HIRAM W.—Age, 26 years. Enrolled, July 17, 1862, at Oswegatchie, to serve three
years; mustered in as first lieutenant, Co. A, August 27, 1862; as captain,
March 1, 1863; mustered out with company, June 22, 1865, near Washington, D. C.
Commissioned first lieutenant, September 10, 1862, with rank from August 11,
1862, original; captain, March 17, 1863, with rank from March 1, 1803.