A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of thirty-four in Lancaster County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 8 as a corporal with Co. D, 178th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 27, 1863. He is erroneously listed in the 1890 Veterans Schedule as serving with "Co. D, 187 drafted," an obvious reversal of the numbers. (The 187th Pennsylvania Infantry was not a drafted regiment.)
On September 13, 1889, he applied for a disability pension and received it. In 1890, he was living in Penn Township, Lancaster County, but died at the reported age of "about seventy-six years" at a cousin's home in Manheim where he had been a member of Heintzelman Post No. 300, G.A.R.
The 1900 census claims he was born in August 1832.
On September 13, 1889, he applied for a disability pension and received it. In 1890, he was living in Penn Township, Lancaster County, but died at the reported age of "about seventy-six years" at a cousin's home in Manheim where he had been a member of Heintzelman Post No. 300, G.A.R.
The 1900 census claims he was born in August 1832.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of thirty-four in Lancaster County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 8 as a corporal with Co. D, 178th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 27, 1863. He is erroneously listed in the 1890 Veterans Schedule as serving with "Co. D, 187 drafted," an obvious reversal of the numbers. (The 187th Pennsylvania Infantry was not a drafted regiment.)
On September 13, 1889, he applied for a disability pension and received it. In 1890, he was living in Penn Township, Lancaster County, but died at the reported age of "about seventy-six years" at a cousin's home in Manheim where he had been a member of Heintzelman Post No. 300, G.A.R.
The 1900 census claims he was born in August 1832.
On September 13, 1889, he applied for a disability pension and received it. In 1890, he was living in Penn Township, Lancaster County, but died at the reported age of "about seventy-six years" at a cousin's home in Manheim where he had been a member of Heintzelman Post No. 300, G.A.R.
The 1900 census claims he was born in August 1832.
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