History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Jabez Banbury

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[13]JABEZ BANBURY was a native of England but came to America when quite young. He was a mechanic and located at Marshalltown, Iowa. Before the Rebellion he had some military experience as a member of an independent company. In June, 1861, he helped raise a company which was attached to the Fifth Iowa Infantry, as Company D, of which Banbury was elected first lieutenant. He won rapid promotion, becoming captain in February, 1862, major in July following and colonel in April, 1863. After the fall of Vicksburg, he was for a time in command of a brigade. He was mustered out of the service in August, 1864, and removed to California in 1870, where he died on the 11th of December, 1900.