Victor Alanson Elliott
Victor Alanson Elliott was born on July 23, 1839, in Richmond, Pennsylvania, to Oliver Elliott and Mary Rockwell. His father was a farmer who owned $4,500 of real estate and $2,000 of personal property by 1860. His mother died sometime before 1850. He grew up and attended school in Tioga County, and he began working as a teacher around 1855. He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1860 to study law, but he left the university to serve in the Civil War.
He enlisted in the Union army on August 27, 1861, and he mustered in as a sergeant in Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry later that day. According to his service records, he was 5 feet, 11 inches tall, with black hair and hazel eyes. On February 26, 1862, he became a captain in Company B of the 101st Pennsylvania Infantry. He took part in the Peninsula campaign, but he fell ill with pneumonia later that year. He mustered out on September 22, 1862.
He returned to Tioga County, and he was elected superintendent of common school there in 1863. He married Josephine E. Gillette on May 10, 1863, and they had at least three children: Jessie, born around 1867; Willis, born around 1872; and Robert, born around 1880. His health recovered by 1864, and he rejoined the Union army as a major in the 207th Pennsylvania Infantry on September 14, 1864. He mustered out on May 31, 1865.
After the war, Elliott resumed his legal studies, and he was admitted to the war in 1867. The family moved to Omaha, Nebraska, around 1868, and he worked as a lawyer there. They moved to Denver, in the Colorado Territory, around 1873. When Colorado became a state in 1876, Elliott was elected as a district court judge. He held the position for the next twelve years, and in 1888, he became an associate justice of the state supreme court. He served until 1895. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Denver on February 5, 1899.
Image: Victor Alanson Elliott (courtesy Wikicommons)
DATABASE CONTENT
| (2107) | Elliott, Victor Alanson | 1839-07-23 | 1899-02-05 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Sergeant
- Rank out: Major
- Rank highest: Major
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (6504) [writer] ~ Victor A. Elliott to Oliver Elliott and Maria Elliott, 28 August 1862
People - Records: 2
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 3
Groups - Records: 1
- (6) [member/supporter] ~ Grand Army of the Republic
SOURCES
1850, 1860, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Pennsylvania Veterans Card Files, 1775-1916, available from Ancestry.com; The Kansas City Star, 6 February 1899; The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 12 (New York, NY: James T. White & Co., 1904).
