Background
Cilley, Jonathan Prince was born on December 29, 1835 in Thomaston, Maine, United States. Son of Jonathan and Deborah (Prince) Cilley.
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Jonathan Prince Cilley
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Education
Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin, 1858. Admitted to bar, 1860.
Career
Captain 1st Maine Cavalry, October 19, 1861. Major, May 15, 1862; lieutenant colonel, July 1, 1864. Honorary mustered out, August, 1865.
Bvtd.: colonel volumes, March 13, 1865, “for gallant and meritorious services during the war”.
Brigadier general volumes, June 12, 1865, for same. In practice, Rockland, Maine, since 1865.
Member House of Representatives, 1867. United States court commissioner, 1867-1880.
Adjutant general of Maine, 1876-1878.
Editor Maine Bugle, 1894. Author: Cilley Genealogy, 1879. The Mount Desert Widow, 1896.
Achievements
Membership
Member House of Representatives, 1867.
Connections
Married Caroline A. Lazell, October 10, 1866. Married second, Abby (Butler) Burpee, December 25, 1897.
