A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 9, 1862, as a private with Co. F, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry. Hospitalized for illness at Harrisburg, he was there discharged the service by surgeon's certificate December 13, 1862, for "chronic rheumatism" that allegedly existed before enlistment.
After the war, he married Ida Adeline "Addie" Fink and fathered Calvin Clarence b. (b. 11/??/69), Royal T. "Roy" (b. 07/25/72), and Joseph Emerson (b. 03/24/74). He became an innkeeper and retired to a comfortable life and a new house in West Fairview, Cumberland County, where he died from "chronic gastritis."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 9, 1862, as a private with Co. F, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry. Hospitalized for illness at Harrisburg, he was there discharged the service by surgeon's certificate December 13, 1862, for "chronic rheumatism" that allegedly existed before enlistment.
After the war, he married Ida Adeline "Addie" Fink and fathered Calvin Clarence b. (b. 11/??/69), Royal T. "Roy" (b. 07/25/72), and Joseph Emerson (b. 03/24/74). He became an innkeeper and retired to a comfortable life and a new house in West Fairview, Cumberland County, where he died from "chronic gastritis."
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