Zophar M. Mansur

Zophar Mack Mansur

Zophar Mack Mansur (born November 23, 1843 in Morgan , Vermont , † March 12, 1914 in Burlington , Vermont) was an American veteran of the Civil War , banker and politician , who was Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1894 to 1896 .

Life

Mansur was born in Morgan, Vermont to Warren and Jane A. (Morse) Mansur. He went to school in Derby .

Mansur was enlisted for the army on August 11, 1862 and on September 1, 1862 as a corporal , Company K of the 10th Vermont Infantry. With his regiment he took part in the Battle of the Wilderness , the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House , the Battle of North Anna, the Battle of Cold Harbor , the Siege of Petersburg , the Battle of Monocacy and the Battle of Opequon. In Winchester he was wounded on September 19, 1864 and lost his right arm. He was then released from the army on August 31, 1865.

In 1867 he married Ellen L. Newhill. The couple had a son.

As a postmaster, he worked in Island Pond from February 1867 to November 1885 . He studied law from 1870 to 1875 and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1875. He worked as a lawyer until 1892, then in the wood business until 1897. He was director and later president of the National Bank of Derby Line from 1885 to 1905.

Politically Republican, he was an Essex County prosecutor in 1886 . He was also the elected representative for the Town of Brighton to the Vermont General Assembly in 1886. He served on the Legal Committee and the Military Affairs Committee. He was a Senator for Essex County in the Vermont Senate in 1888 and under Governor Urban A. Woodbury he was Lieutenant Governor from 1894 to 1896. He was appointed tax collector for the Memphremagog district by President Benjamin Harrison and this office he held until 1906.

He has been a trustee for the Vermont Soldiers' Home in Brattleboro since it was founded in 1884 and a curator of the University of Vermont .

He was also active in various brotherhoods such as Sons of the American Revolution , Reunion Society of Vermont Officers , Grand Army of the Republic and the Freemasons .

Mansur died in Burlington on March 12, 1914. His grave is in East Main Street Cemetery in Newport .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, page 605, accessed September 1, 2014.
2. ^ The House of Mansur , p. 91, accessed September 1, 2014.
3. ↑ Cases on Trusts and Estates , page 828, accessed September 1, 2014.
4. ^ Vermont in the civil war , accessed September 1, 2014.
5. ^ University of Vermont, Board of Trustees, p. 4, accessed September 1, 2014.

Web links

• Zophar M. Mansur in the database of Find a Grave (English)

literature

• GG Benedict: Vermont in the Civil War. A History of the part taken by the Vermont Soldiers And Sailors in the War For The Union, 1861-5, The Free Press Association, Burlington VT 1888, p. 322.
• Frederick G. Fleetwood: Vermont Legislative Directory, Biennial Session, 1902, at www.ancestry.com.
• Prentiss C. Dodge (compiled and edited): Encyclopedia Vermont Biography. Ullery Publishing Company, Burlington VT 1912, pp. 257-258.
• Theodore S. Peck (compiled and edited): Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and lists of Vermonters Who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion, 1861–66. Press of the Watchman Publishing Co., Montpelier VT. 1892, p. 406.