Benjamin Warren Levalley papers
Scope and Content
The papers include appointment letters, discharge from service paper, correspondence, and a printout of photographs.
Dates
- 1862-1896
Language of Materials
The records are in English.
Restrictions on Access
Restrictions on Use
See the Reproduction and Publications of State Library Collections policy.
Biographical Note
Benjamin Warren Levalley was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on September 10, 1836. Levalley was appointed a Sergeant from Hartford in Company H of the 22nd Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry on August 27 and was mustered in on September 20, 1862. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on November 17, 1862. Benjamin mustered out of service on July 7, 1863. He worked for 22 years at the Pratt & Whitney Company retiring as head of the Piping Department in December 1896. In 1895-1896 he spent time with his cousin Joanna Remington recording gravestones of the Fenner family at the Remington farm in Rhode Island. Benjamin Warren Levalley died on June 11, 1911, in Providence, Rhode Island at the age of 74.
Genealogy
Warren D. Welch is the great great grandson of Mary Cook Levalley Lovell. Mary was Benjamin Warren Levalley's sister.
Extent
0.25 cubic feet
Abstract
Benjamin Warren Levalley was a 2nd Lieutenant in Company H of the 22nd Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. In 1895-1896 he spent time with his cousin Joanna Remington recording gravestones of the Fenner family at the Remington farm in Rhode Island. The collection includes appointment letters, discharge from service paper, correspondence, and a printout of photographs.
Provenance
The papers were donated to the Connecticut State Library by Warren D. Welch on April 29, 2013.
- Connecticut Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Connecticut -- Genealogy Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Connecticut -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Hartford (Conn.) Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Orders (military records) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Printouts Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Providence (R.I.) Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Rhode Island -- Genealogy Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- RG 069:164, Benjamin Warren Levalley Papers
- Subtitle
- Inventory
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Allen Ramsey.
- Date
- 2013
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Connecticut State Library Repository
