Samuel W. Corliss was born around 1822 in Marshfield, Vermont, probably to Leander Corliss. His father was a laborer who owned $800 of real estate in 1850. Corliss married Martha Sargent in Marshfield on April 11, 1844, and they had at least seven children: Elsa, born around 1845; Mary Jane, born around 1846; John, born around 1848; Abby, born around 1850; Hellen, born around 1853; Angie, born around 1859; and Lillie, born around 1862. The family moved to New Hampshire in the late 1840s, and by 1850, Corliss was working as a laborer in Milford, New Hampshire. A decade later, Corliss was working as a farm laborer in Amherst, New Hampshire. He enlisted in the Union army on August 14, 1862, and mustered in as a private in Company H of the 10^th New Hampshire Infantry on September 4. He eventually earned a promotion to corporal. He died of disease near Julian’s Creek, Virginia, on August 16, 1863.

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