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Capt William Harmon b1835 Springfield, ME outlived Zoe Lulu and died in 1903 Milwaukee. He was Civil war vet 1st Minnesota volunteer infantry & obtained rank of Captain in regular army resigning in 1870. He owned the steamer "H.M. Rice". He then did government contract work in Dakota Territory. In 1882 Montana he established first permanent ranch in what would be Fallon County on east O'Fallon Creek. William, Zoe, & son Milan had land patents in Carter County-1892, 1894, 1905.

Sitting Bull visited Capt William Harmon at Bismarck while being "escorted" on the steamer General Sherman. The book "Campaign's General Custer in the Northwest and the Final Surrender of Sitting Bull" by Judson Elliott Walker details this in Chapter 4.

The Billings Gazette

• Publication: Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA
• Date: Nov 10 1903
• Text: "... Captain William Harmon, one of the pioneers of eastern Montana, was buried at Miles City last Monday. At the same time one of his sons, Milan, was also buried. During the last few years of his life Captain Harmon made his home in Milwaukee, where he died. The son had been an invalid for a number of years and his death occurred in an eastern sanitarium.

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U.S., Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960

• Name William Harmon
• Birth Year abt 1835
• Death Date 28 Oct 1903
• Age at Death 68
• Burial Place Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Cemetery Wood National Cemetery

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• http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=141489971
• John S. Gray, "The Story of Mrs. Picotte-Galpin, a Sioux Heroine." Montana, the Magazine of Western History, 36 (Spring 1986) 2-21; (Summer 1986) 2-21
• Residence: 1880 - Fort Abraham Lincoln, Burleigh, Dakota Territory, USA
• Race: White
• Ethnicity: American
  • Reference: 1880 United States Federal Census - SmartCopy: Nov 5 2016, 1:18:13 UTC
• Residence: 1880 - Fort Abraham Lincoln, Burleigh, Dakota Territory, United States
  • Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Nov 5 2016, 1:45:02 UTC
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Nov 5 2016, 1:50:02 UTC
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Nov 5 2016, 2:22:13 UTC