LC control no. | n 97800938 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Lilly, Eli, 1838-1898 |
Birth date | 1838-07-08 |
Death date | 1898-06-06 |
Affiliation | Eli Lily and Company United States. Army. Indiana Light Artillery Battery, 18th (1862-1865) United States. Army. Indiana Cavalry Regiment, 9th (1863-1865) |
Found in | Threescore years and ten, 1946: p. 22 (Colonel Eli Lilly, 1838-1898) Three generations of the Lilly family in Indiana, 2022: ECIP galley (Colonel Eli Lilly, July 8, 1838-June 6,1898. Born on the Fairmont Plantation, Baltimore, MD. Attended Asbury College (now DePauw University), in Greencastle, IN, worked in drug trade. Served 6 mo. in the Putnam Rifles, Twenty-First Regiment of the Indiana Volunteer Militia; starting1862, in the Eighteenth Indiana Battery of Light Artillery; starting 1864, 121st Regiment of the Ninth Indiana Cavalry. POW in Mississippi. Opened drug manufacturer Eli Lilly and Company in 1876) |