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.

U.S. Civil War

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.