He married Elizabeth Mohler July 21, 1852, and fathered Anna M. (b. 07/05/55, 12/25/74), John W. (b. @1857), William Charles (b. 03/??/67), Jennie Emma (b. 01/25/68, 10/24/87), Edward L. @1871), and Luther (b. @1872). In 1860, he was a carpenter living with his family in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 10" tall with dark hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the apparently understated age of thirty in Chambersburg September 6, 1862, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 22 as a private with Co. H, 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry (161st Pennsylvania). Promoted to commissary sergeant March 1, 1865, he was wounded at White Oak Road near Petersburg, Virginia, on April 2, 1865, but honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865, at Philadelphia. He is in the company register as "McGowen." His obituary in the Chambersburg Valley Spirit erroneously claims he enlisted "at the breaking out of the war."
He died at his home after a sustained decline in health.
His actual age is a question mark. He is in the 1850 census as twenty years of age, in 1860 as a twenty-eight-year-old, and in 1880 at forty.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the apparently understated age of thirty in Chambersburg September 6, 1862, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 22 as a private with Co. H, 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry (161st Pennsylvania). Promoted to commissary sergeant March 1, 1865, he was wounded at White Oak Road near Petersburg, Virginia, on April 2, 1865, but honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865, at Philadelphia. He is in the company register as "McGowen." His obituary in the Chambersburg Valley Spirit erroneously claims he enlisted "at the breaking out of the war."
He died at his home after a sustained decline in health.
His actual age is a question mark. He is in the 1850 census as twenty years of age, in 1860 as a twenty-eight-year-old, and in 1880 at forty.
He married Elizabeth Mohler July 21, 1852, and fathered Anna M. (b. 07/05/55, 12/25/74), John W. (b. @1857), William Charles (b. 03/??/67), Jennie Emma (b. 01/25/68, 10/24/87), Edward L. @1871), and Luther (b. @1872). In 1860, he was a carpenter living with his family in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 10" tall with dark hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the apparently understated age of thirty in Chambersburg September 6, 1862, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 22 as a private with Co. H, 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry (161st Pennsylvania). Promoted to commissary sergeant March 1, 1865, he was wounded at White Oak Road near Petersburg, Virginia, on April 2, 1865, but honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865, at Philadelphia. He is in the company register as "McGowen." His obituary in the Chambersburg Valley Spirit erroneously claims he enlisted "at the breaking out of the war."
He died at his home after a sustained decline in health.
His actual age is a question mark. He is in the 1850 census as twenty years of age, in 1860 as a twenty-eight-year-old, and in 1880 at forty.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the apparently understated age of thirty in Chambersburg September 6, 1862, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg September 22 as a private with Co. H, 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry (161st Pennsylvania). Promoted to commissary sergeant March 1, 1865, he was wounded at White Oak Road near Petersburg, Virginia, on April 2, 1865, but honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865, at Philadelphia. He is in the company register as "McGowen." His obituary in the Chambersburg Valley Spirit erroneously claims he enlisted "at the breaking out of the war."
He died at his home after a sustained decline in health.
His actual age is a question mark. He is in the 1850 census as twenty years of age, in 1860 as a twenty-eight-year-old, and in 1880 at forty.
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