This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lane, Baker, Pott, Sheffield Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1140 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 893. LANCASTER JOHN F. LANE, Sheriff of Grant Co. Is a native of Lower Canada, and was born Dec. 27, 1832. He came to Wisconsin before reaching manhood, and settled in Grant Co. When the war broke out, he enlisted May 20, 1861, in Co. I, 3d W. V. I., and was transferred to Co. G, 1st United States Engineers, and served until the battle of Chancellorsville, when he returned to his old regiment, and was severely wounded in that battle. He afterward entered the secret service under Col. Baker, and served in Capt. Pott's division until the close of the war. In the fall of 1880, he was elected Sheriff of this county. In the fall of 1874, Mr. Lane married Miss Florence Sheffield, a native of Grant Co. They have two children - Effie and Ernest; they have lost one son, Harry. [I am not related to this family. I am posting this as a service and hope it helps!]