A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Palmyra, Lebanon County, August 8, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 13 as a private with Co. I, 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, promoted to corporal November 6, and honorably discharged with his company May 29, 1863.
He married Margaret Agnes Buck December 22, 1868, and fathered Mary Alice (b. 03/31/70), Virgie Grace (b. 04/03/72), Bessie Gertrude (b. 01/06/76 - married Frank MacGibeny), Joseph H. (b. @1879, d. 10/03/84), George Oscar (b. 09/08/80), Margaret or Maggie Edna (b. @1884, d. 08/13/85), and Ethel Irene (b. 12/22/85 - married Robert Harry Bell). After the war, he operated a string of charcoal furnaces in various parts of the state and owned several hotels, including the Mount Holly Springs Hotel and one in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He died from "myocarditis [and] coronary thrombosis" leading to "congestive heart failure" at his brother Ezra's home. He had been a member of Hummelstown's Henderson Post No. 443, G.A.R.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Palmyra, Lebanon County, August 8, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 13 as a private with Co. I, 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, promoted to corporal November 6, and honorably discharged with his company May 29, 1863.
He married Margaret Agnes Buck December 22, 1868, and fathered Mary Alice (b. 03/31/70), Virgie Grace (b. 04/03/72), Bessie Gertrude (b. 01/06/76 - married Frank MacGibeny), Joseph H. (b. @1879, d. 10/03/84), George Oscar (b. 09/08/80), Margaret or Maggie Edna (b. @1884, d. 08/13/85), and Ethel Irene (b. 12/22/85 - married Robert Harry Bell). After the war, he operated a string of charcoal furnaces in various parts of the state and owned several hotels, including the Mount Holly Springs Hotel and one in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He died from "myocarditis [and] coronary thrombosis" leading to "congestive heart failure" at his brother Ezra's home. He had been a member of Hummelstown's Henderson Post No. 443, G.A.R.
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Corp. Co. I 127th Reg. Pa. Vol.
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