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HEALY, Robert Wallace<\/strong>, Manufacturer; born Chicago, Ill., Oct. 22, 1836; Irish descent; son of Robert and Anne (Wallace) HEALY<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer and contractor; paternal grandparents, Robert and Mary (Brennan) HEALY<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, Patrick and Anne (Dormer) WALLACE<\/strong>; educated in Cook Co., Ill., and University of Notre Dame, Ind., graduated from latter A. B., 1859, M. A., 1865, L. D. D., 1908; in early life was clerk in Pork Packing establishment of Thomas NASH<\/strong>; married twice, first Sarah J. NOLAN<\/strong>, Oct. 1, 1862, second, A. Jeannette COOKE<\/strong>, Oct. 25, 1899; member of Golf and Country Club, Commercial Club, of Chattanooga; Past Grand Knight, Knights of Columbus, Loyal Legion, Society Army of Tenn., Mountain City Golf Club; Republican; Chairman of Republican State Executive Committee of Alabama, 1872-4; delegate to Nat. Republican Convention, 1876; candidate for Presidential Elector, 1876; was member of first Board of Directors of Carnegie Library; enlisted in 58th<\/sup> Ill. Infantry Sept. 25, 1861; Capt. Dec. 25, 1861; Maj. Oct. 20, 1864; Lieut.-Col. April 10, 1865, Col. Oct. 3, 1865; brevetted Lt. Col. March 26, 1865 for faithful and meritorious services during campaign against Mobile; Brig. Gen. Vols. March 13, 1865; honorably mustered out April 1, 1866; served at Ft. Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Meridian; on Banks\u2019 Red River expedition; at Ft. De Russey, Pleasant Hill, Yellow Bayou, etc.; commanding regiment also in various engagements in A. J. Smith\u2019s campaign against Gen. Forrest, and Oxford, Miss.; transferred to Mo., serving under Rosecrans against Price; commanded a regiment in battle of Nashville, Tenn., and pursuit of Hood, Dec. 1864; appointed Inspector-General 2d division 16th<\/sup> Army Corps, March 1865; took part in campaign against Mobile, and battle of Blakely, April 9, 1865; returned to command of regiment July, 1865, and garrisoned at Montgomery, Ala., after war; purchasing agent Erlanger Syndicate, operating Queen & Crescent System to Jan. 1892, when he became Pres. of Ross-Meehan Foundry Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.; former U. S. Marshal South and Middle Districts of Ala., 1867-76; former director in Tecumseh Iron Co., of Ala., from 1873 to 1908; member of Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Chattanooga HEALY, Robert Wallace, Manufacturer; born Chicago, Ill., Oct. 22, 1836; Irish descent; son of Robert and Anne (Wallace) HEALY; father\u2019s occupation, farmer and contractor; paternal grandparents, Robert and Mary (Brennan) HEALY, maternal grandparents, Patrick and Anne (Dormer) WALLACE; educated in Cook Co., Ill., and University of Notre Dame, Ind., graduated from latter A. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,77,4419],"tags":[1032,316,1033,1031,1034,1035,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-1018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hamilton","7":"category-surname-h","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-brennan","10":"tag-cooke","11":"tag-dormer","12":"tag-healy","13":"tag-nash","14":"tag-nolan","15":"tag-wallace","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15412,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/15412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}