Orleans

MILES, Lorenzo Dow

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 274-275 
(portrait p 274)

Lorenzo Dow MILES, of Newport [Orleans County, Vermont] was born 26 September 
1838 in the town of St. Johnsbury [Caledonia County, Vermont], son of Orrin 
and Frances (CLARK) MILES. He received his preparatory education in the 
schools and academy of Johnson [Lamoille County, Vermont], and was 
contemplating a college course, but was unable to on account of the bursting 
of the war cloud in 1861. He enlisted in Company E, Third Vermont Regiment, 
while yet a schoolboy; was on detached on special service with Battery F, 
Fifth U. S. Regulars, with which he remained until early winter 1863, when he 
returned to his regiment, with which he served until honorably discharged at 
Burlington [Chittenden County, Vermont], 27 July 1864; participated in all 
the battles in which the Sixth Army Corps were engaged, except the seven 
days' fight in front of the rebel capital, including Lees Mills, Antietam, 
both engagements of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, 
Petersburg, Welden Station, Cold Harbor, and Fort Stevens. In all these he 
escaped unscathed, nor was he ever captured, but did his duty every day 
during three years of service, except for a three-month period he spent in 
the hospital with typhoid fever.

At the expiration of the war Mr. MILES came to Albany [Orleans County, 
Vermont], where he settled down as a farmer. In 1874 he was appointed deputy 
sheriff and successively re-elected until he was made sheriff ten years 
later. Since the fall of 1878 he has resided in Craftsbury, Barton, 
Irasburg, and Newport [all in Orleans County, Vermont], but finally made his 
residence in Albany. He has been concerned in the arrest of many prominent 
criminals and was actively employed in search of the murderer ALMY. 
Republican since the formation of the party [1854]. Member of Baxter Post, 
Grand Army of the Republic; Knights of Pythias; and in the Masonic Order is a 
member of the Knights Templar. He is liberal in his religious preferences. 
On 14 March 1865 he [Lorenzo Dow MILES] was married to Harriet E., daughter 
of Eben K. and Jennett (GREGG) LORD; they have three children: Carrie E., 
Eddie F., and Frank E.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly