Compiled Military Service Record of Captain Frank J. Herron, Company I, 1st Iowa Infantry Regiment (3 Months, 1861)
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Herron, Francis Jay, 1837-1902
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Francis J. Herron attended the Western University of Pennsylvania, but left at the age of sixteen without completing his degree to become a bank clerk. In 1855, he joined his three brothers in Dubuque, Iowa, where they established a bank. In 1859, he organized and was elected captain of a militia company known as the "Governor's Grays," which Herron offered to President-elect Abraham Lincoln in January 1861, two months prior to Lincoln's inauguration. In April 1861, Herron was appointed capta...
