Carpenter and contractor.
At President Lincoln's call at the beginning of the Civil War, David enlisted at Lancaster in Company A, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This was a hundred-days regiment, and after his expiration of service he enlisted in the reformed three-year 17th Regiment, as a private in Company F. After three years he transferred to Company C, United States Veterans Voluntary Engineers.He saw service throughout Virginia and the southern campaigns. Some of the hardest fighting the unit engaged in was the Battle of Chickamauga.
After the war, David returned to Fairfield county. He married Mary Elinore "Ella" Fenstermaker in Fairfield county, Ohio, on February 15, 1872. They had a son Edmund, and moved to Columbus in the 1880s. Edmund took up his father's trade and their firm was known as Spencer & Son.
David passed away at the National Soldiers' Home near Dayton, Ohio, at the age of 88.
At President Lincoln's call at the beginning of the Civil War, David enlisted at Lancaster in Company A, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This was a hundred-days regiment, and after his expiration of service he enlisted in the reformed three-year 17th Regiment, as a private in Company F. After three years he transferred to Company C, United States Veterans Voluntary Engineers.He saw service throughout Virginia and the southern campaigns. Some of the hardest fighting the unit engaged in was the Battle of Chickamauga.
After the war, David returned to Fairfield county. He married Mary Elinore "Ella" Fenstermaker in Fairfield county, Ohio, on February 15, 1872. They had a son Edmund, and moved to Columbus in the 1880s. Edmund took up his father's trade and their firm was known as Spencer & Son.
David passed away at the National Soldiers' Home near Dayton, Ohio, at the age of 88.
Carpenter and contractor.
At President Lincoln's call at the beginning of the Civil War, David enlisted at Lancaster in Company A, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This was a hundred-days regiment, and after his expiration of service he enlisted in the reformed three-year 17th Regiment, as a private in Company F. After three years he transferred to Company C, United States Veterans Voluntary Engineers.He saw service throughout Virginia and the southern campaigns. Some of the hardest fighting the unit engaged in was the Battle of Chickamauga.
After the war, David returned to Fairfield county. He married Mary Elinore "Ella" Fenstermaker in Fairfield county, Ohio, on February 15, 1872. They had a son Edmund, and moved to Columbus in the 1880s. Edmund took up his father's trade and their firm was known as Spencer & Son.
David passed away at the National Soldiers' Home near Dayton, Ohio, at the age of 88.
At President Lincoln's call at the beginning of the Civil War, David enlisted at Lancaster in Company A, 17th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This was a hundred-days regiment, and after his expiration of service he enlisted in the reformed three-year 17th Regiment, as a private in Company F. After three years he transferred to Company C, United States Veterans Voluntary Engineers.He saw service throughout Virginia and the southern campaigns. Some of the hardest fighting the unit engaged in was the Battle of Chickamauga.
After the war, David returned to Fairfield county. He married Mary Elinore "Ella" Fenstermaker in Fairfield county, Ohio, on February 15, 1872. They had a son Edmund, and moved to Columbus in the 1880s. Edmund took up his father's trade and their firm was known as Spencer & Son.
David passed away at the National Soldiers' Home near Dayton, Ohio, at the age of 88.
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