McKean, James W.

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McKean, James W.
Captain, Co. C, 44th Iowa, 1864. (CWSSS) Died July 9, 1864 of typhoid fever at Officers Hospital, Memphis, TN. (Unfinished Catalogue) As president of Bowen Collegiate Institute (later Lenox College), Iowa, he had volunteered for service; the entire student body save one also volunteered to become Co. C. Monument to him and other Lenox College dead at former campus, Hopkinton, Iowa.
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