Lansing A. Wilcox, the last surviving Wisconsin veteran of the Civil War, was born in Kenosha on March 3, 1846. In February 1864 he enlisted from Chippewa County in F Company, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, and returned to the Cadott community in 1866. He worked as a farmer, schoolteacher, and postmaster, and retired in 1912. Corporal Wilcox died on September 29, 1951, at the age of 105 years, 6 months and 26 days.