The son of William & Sarah (Haas) Arbegast, in 1860 he presumably was a resident of Lower Dickinson Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, although he is not found in that census.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Carlisle October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 1 as a private with Co. A, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
After the war, he married Elizabeth A. Fortney and fathered Clarence E. (b. 12/24/66), Willis M. (b. @1869), Sarah Alberta (b. 12/04/71 - married George Washington McLane), Cora A. (b. 1873, d. 1876), Elmer H. (b. @1876), Anna M. (b. @1878), Emma G. (b. 1880, d. 1882), and John Calvin (b. 06/02/83). He was a member of Mechanicsburg's Zinn Post, No. 415, G.A.R. On his last day on Earth, he and a fellow worker were on a scaffold installing a third-story window to a Harrisburg home when the scaffold broke, sending them both hurtling earthward. Arbegast landed on a stone pillar and expired within minutes.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Carlisle October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 1 as a private with Co. A, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
After the war, he married Elizabeth A. Fortney and fathered Clarence E. (b. 12/24/66), Willis M. (b. @1869), Sarah Alberta (b. 12/04/71 - married George Washington McLane), Cora A. (b. 1873, d. 1876), Elmer H. (b. @1876), Anna M. (b. @1878), Emma G. (b. 1880, d. 1882), and John Calvin (b. 06/02/83). He was a member of Mechanicsburg's Zinn Post, No. 415, G.A.R. On his last day on Earth, he and a fellow worker were on a scaffold installing a third-story window to a Harrisburg home when the scaffold broke, sending them both hurtling earthward. Arbegast landed on a stone pillar and expired within minutes.
The son of William & Sarah (Haas) Arbegast, in 1860 he presumably was a resident of Lower Dickinson Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, although he is not found in that census.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Carlisle October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 1 as a private with Co. A, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
After the war, he married Elizabeth A. Fortney and fathered Clarence E. (b. 12/24/66), Willis M. (b. @1869), Sarah Alberta (b. 12/04/71 - married George Washington McLane), Cora A. (b. 1873, d. 1876), Elmer H. (b. @1876), Anna M. (b. @1878), Emma G. (b. 1880, d. 1882), and John Calvin (b. 06/02/83). He was a member of Mechanicsburg's Zinn Post, No. 415, G.A.R. On his last day on Earth, he and a fellow worker were on a scaffold installing a third-story window to a Harrisburg home when the scaffold broke, sending them both hurtling earthward. Arbegast landed on a stone pillar and expired within minutes.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Carlisle October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 1 as a private with Co. A, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
After the war, he married Elizabeth A. Fortney and fathered Clarence E. (b. 12/24/66), Willis M. (b. @1869), Sarah Alberta (b. 12/04/71 - married George Washington McLane), Cora A. (b. 1873, d. 1876), Elmer H. (b. @1876), Anna M. (b. @1878), Emma G. (b. 1880, d. 1882), and John Calvin (b. 06/02/83). He was a member of Mechanicsburg's Zinn Post, No. 415, G.A.R. On his last day on Earth, he and a fellow worker were on a scaffold installing a third-story window to a Harrisburg home when the scaffold broke, sending them both hurtling earthward. Arbegast landed on a stone pillar and expired within minutes.
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