The son of William & Margaret Wasson, in 1860 he was a farmer living in Washington Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 10" tall and had light hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of twenty-one, mustered into federal service at Pittsburgh August 16, 1861, as a private with Co. H, 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer December 19, 1863, at Brandy Station, Virginia, promoted to sergeant major November 2, 1864, and honorably discharged with the regiment June 28, 1865.
After the war, he married Sarah A. Shultz, studied dentistry, and moved to York sometime in the 1870s. (The order of those events has not yet been determined.) There, he was elected to a term as post commander of Sedgwick Post No. 37, G.A.R. Cause of his death is listed as "epidemic influenza followed by bronchitis and catarrh & enteritis."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of twenty-one, mustered into federal service at Pittsburgh August 16, 1861, as a private with Co. H, 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer December 19, 1863, at Brandy Station, Virginia, promoted to sergeant major November 2, 1864, and honorably discharged with the regiment June 28, 1865.
After the war, he married Sarah A. Shultz, studied dentistry, and moved to York sometime in the 1870s. (The order of those events has not yet been determined.) There, he was elected to a term as post commander of Sedgwick Post No. 37, G.A.R. Cause of his death is listed as "epidemic influenza followed by bronchitis and catarrh & enteritis."
The son of William & Margaret Wasson, in 1860 he was a farmer living in Washington Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 10" tall and had light hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of twenty-one, mustered into federal service at Pittsburgh August 16, 1861, as a private with Co. H, 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer December 19, 1863, at Brandy Station, Virginia, promoted to sergeant major November 2, 1864, and honorably discharged with the regiment June 28, 1865.
After the war, he married Sarah A. Shultz, studied dentistry, and moved to York sometime in the 1870s. (The order of those events has not yet been determined.) There, he was elected to a term as post commander of Sedgwick Post No. 37, G.A.R. Cause of his death is listed as "epidemic influenza followed by bronchitis and catarrh & enteritis."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of twenty-one, mustered into federal service at Pittsburgh August 16, 1861, as a private with Co. H, 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and promoted to corporal, date unknown. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer December 19, 1863, at Brandy Station, Virginia, promoted to sergeant major November 2, 1864, and honorably discharged with the regiment June 28, 1865.
After the war, he married Sarah A. Shultz, studied dentistry, and moved to York sometime in the 1870s. (The order of those events has not yet been determined.) There, he was elected to a term as post commander of Sedgwick Post No. 37, G.A.R. Cause of his death is listed as "epidemic influenza followed by bronchitis and catarrh & enteritis."
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