April Historic Fact of the Month

Lebanon Lodge # 7 

On April 1, 1865, Lebanon Lodge #7 appointed a committee to draft resolutions of respect to the memory of our late brother Lorenzo Dow Farnham who died while a prisoner of war in Andersonville, Georgia. Brother Farnham was a Union soldier in Company A, 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment Vermont. He was captured in Weldon Railroad, VA on June 23, 1864 and died two months later on August 20, 1864. Brother Farnham was survived by his wife, Harriett Fuller, and three sons, Percy Dwight Farnham, Herbert A. Farnham, and Warren Pease Farnham. Herbert went on to become second lieutenant of the Vermont National Guard and a member of Passumpsic Lodge No. 27.