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1852.
Henry Hill Downes.
Private 124th Illinois Vols. (Infantry), August II, 1862; died at Vicksburg, Miss., September 26, 1864, of disease contracted in the service.
Henry Hill Downes was born at Boston, November 24, 1830.
He was the son of Commodore John Downes, U. S. N., and Maria Gertrude (Hoffman) Downes.
Not long after his birth, his parents removed to Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he resided till he graduated at Harvard.
He was fitted for college at the Chauncey Hall School, in Boston, with the exception of a few months previous to his admission, which were passed under the instruction of George P. Sanger, Esq. He entered Harvard in the year 1849, joining the Class of 1852 in the second term of its Freshman year.
Here those social qualities, courteous manners, and that kindly disposition, which had secured him so many friends while at school, still continued to make him popular.
After leaving college he decided to fit himself for the profession of the la