William Theodore Cunningham

WILLIAM THEODORE CUNNINGHAM, DePauw, '50, became a merchant and settled at Oswego, Kan. During the war he was first a captain and afterwards major in the 15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Union army. He was at one time treasurer of Marion County, Iowa. He died in 1888 at Pittsburgh, Kan.

SOURCE: William Raimond Baird, Betas Of Achievement: Being Brief Biographical Records Of Members Of The Beta Theta Pi Who Have Achieved Distinction In Various Fields Of Endeavor, p. 90

William T. Cunningham

William T. Cunningham was the second Major. He was Captain of Company G, and was appointed Major on the promotion of Major Belknap to the lieutenant-colonelcy on August 1, 1862. He was wounded in the left arm in the battle of Corinth on October 3, 1862, where he behaved with gallantry. He resigned on January 10, 1863, and died on May 28, 1884, at Pittsburgh, Kansas.

SOURCE: William W. Belknap, History of the Fifteenth Regiment, Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 39