This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MERRILL, WORDEN, CORSON, MIDCAP, MULHOLLAND, NASH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WGB.2ACI/1525.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: He certainly was the right age, but I don't show any military information in his biography. Elias was in Michigan in June 1844. He was elected to the lower house of the State Legislature in 1856. I will have to do some more research. Thank you for your query. If you find anything else would you please let me know? Thanks. P. Covillo