A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen and mustered into federal service at Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1864, as a private with Co. A, Pennsylvania Cavalry (117th Pa), and honorably discharged with his company July 14, 1865.
He married Mary Catherine Kerr June 15, 1867, in Washington County, Maryland, and fathered Harry H. (b. 06/??/69) and possibly two others who may not have survived infancy. By 1870, he was living with his family in Harrisburg where he died of "pulmonary tuberculosis."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the overstated age of eighteen and mustered into federal service at Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1864, as a private with Co. A, Pennsylvania Cavalry (117th Pa), and honorably discharged with his company July 14, 1865.
He married Mary Catherine Kerr June 15, 1867, in Washington County, Maryland, and fathered Harry H. (b. 06/??/69) and possibly two others who may not have survived infancy. By 1870, he was living with his family in Harrisburg where he died of "pulmonary tuberculosis."
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