A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Perry County June 27, 1863, during the Gettysburg crisis, mustered in Harrisburg July 1 as a private with Co. B, 36th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company August 11, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Harrisburg March 2, 1865, mustered there March 9 as a private with the 104th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. F as a private, and honorably discharged with his company August 25, 1865.
He married Mary Catherine Shafer March 29, 1868, and fathered Charles Emory (b. 09/19/69), Katie May (b. 07/03/71), Harry Andrew (b. 03/26/73), Minnie (b. @1875, d. 1876), and Rosa Emma (b. 02/??/78). Mary died in 1900, and he married German-born Annie E. Kennedy, née Meals, April 7, 1903, in Marysville, Perry County. A retired railroader, he died in Harrisburg Hospital from "uremia (post-operative)" caused by a "hypertrophic prostate."
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Perry County June 27, 1863, during the Gettysburg crisis, mustered in Harrisburg July 1 as a private with Co. B, 36th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company August 11, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of eighteen in Harrisburg March 2, 1865, mustered there March 9 as a private with the 104th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. F as a private, and honorably discharged with his company August 25, 1865.
He married Mary Catherine Shafer March 29, 1868, and fathered Charles Emory (b. 09/19/69), Katie May (b. 07/03/71), Harry Andrew (b. 03/26/73), Minnie (b. @1875, d. 1876), and Rosa Emma (b. 02/??/78). Mary died in 1900, and he married German-born Annie E. Kennedy, née Meals, April 7, 1903, in Marysville, Perry County. A retired railroader, he died in Harrisburg Hospital from "uremia (post-operative)" caused by a "hypertrophic prostate."
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