A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Lancaster July 14, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg July 20 as a private with Co. G in the hundred-day organization of the 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company November 4, 1864.
By 1870, he was living in Reading, Berks County, and took employment as a trolley motorman. He married Margaret Lucy Miller Karns ca. 1871 and fathered Walter Lowry (b. 04/14/71), Florence Karns (b. 05/23/73 - married William S. Jones), and Belle Elizabeth (b. 06/24/75 - married Harry Edward Clark). He later moved to Ambler, Montgomery County, and died in Philadelphia Naval Hospital from "arteriosclerotic heart disease [and] old age" leading to a "coronary occlusion."
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) • [email protected]
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Lancaster July 14, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg July 20 as a private with Co. G in the hundred-day organization of the 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company November 4, 1864.
By 1870, he was living in Reading, Berks County, and took employment as a trolley motorman. He married Margaret Lucy Miller Karns ca. 1871 and fathered Walter Lowry (b. 04/14/71), Florence Karns (b. 05/23/73 - married William S. Jones), and Belle Elizabeth (b. 06/24/75 - married Harry Edward Clark). He later moved to Ambler, Montgomery County, and died in Philadelphia Naval Hospital from "arteriosclerotic heart disease [and] old age" leading to a "coronary occlusion."
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334) • [email protected]
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