This History was found Birth date is listed as two different dates
Clarence Chilton COLBY was born on 5 MAR 1880 in New York City, New York County, New York. He was adopted about 1883. He appeared in the census on 16 JUN 1900 in Midland, Gage County, Nebraska.
TRUMPETER CLARENCE C. COLBY
Clarence C. Colby was born in New York City, March 6, 1882, and moved to Nebraska three years thereafter; adopted son of Brigadier General L. W. Colby; enlisted in Lincoln, Neb., May 14, 1898, as Trumpeter; served with the regiment till August, 1898, when he was assigned by order of General Breckinridge, commanding Camp George H. Thomas at Chickamauga Park, Ga., as Brigade Trumpeter and Mounted Orderly to Brigadier General Colby; afterward by special orders No. 282, A. G. O., was transferred as first-class private to United States Volunteer Signal Corps, to date September 7, 1898, and assigned to the Seventeenth Signal Company at Anniston, Ala.; on December 22 was ordered by Captain A. W. Yancey, commanding signal station, to report for detached duty in charge of telephone and other special service at headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Fourth Army Corps, commanded by Brigadier General L. W. Colby; honorably discharged February 6, 1899, with record of service, hones and faithful. Residence, Beatrice, Neb.
Parents: General Leonard Wright COLBY and Clara Dorothy BEWICK.
Clarence Chilton COLBY was born on 5 MAR 1880 in New York City, New York County, New York. He was adopted about 1883. He appeared in the census on 16 JUN 1900 in Midland, Gage County, Nebraska.
TRUMPETER CLARENCE C. COLBY
Clarence C. Colby was born in New York City, March 6, 1882, and moved to Nebraska three years thereafter; adopted son of Brigadier General L. W. Colby; enlisted in Lincoln, Neb., May 14, 1898, as Trumpeter; served with the regiment till August, 1898, when he was assigned by order of General Breckinridge, commanding Camp George H. Thomas at Chickamauga Park, Ga., as Brigade Trumpeter and Mounted Orderly to Brigadier General Colby; afterward by special orders No. 282, A. G. O., was transferred as first-class private to United States Volunteer Signal Corps, to date September 7, 1898, and assigned to the Seventeenth Signal Company at Anniston, Ala.; on December 22 was ordered by Captain A. W. Yancey, commanding signal station, to report for detached duty in charge of telephone and other special service at headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Fourth Army Corps, commanded by Brigadier General L. W. Colby; honorably discharged February 6, 1899, with record of service, hones and faithful. Residence, Beatrice, Neb.
Parents: General Leonard Wright COLBY and Clara Dorothy BEWICK.
This History was found Birth date is listed as two different dates
Clarence Chilton COLBY was born on 5 MAR 1880 in New York City, New York County, New York. He was adopted about 1883. He appeared in the census on 16 JUN 1900 in Midland, Gage County, Nebraska.
TRUMPETER CLARENCE C. COLBY
Clarence C. Colby was born in New York City, March 6, 1882, and moved to Nebraska three years thereafter; adopted son of Brigadier General L. W. Colby; enlisted in Lincoln, Neb., May 14, 1898, as Trumpeter; served with the regiment till August, 1898, when he was assigned by order of General Breckinridge, commanding Camp George H. Thomas at Chickamauga Park, Ga., as Brigade Trumpeter and Mounted Orderly to Brigadier General Colby; afterward by special orders No. 282, A. G. O., was transferred as first-class private to United States Volunteer Signal Corps, to date September 7, 1898, and assigned to the Seventeenth Signal Company at Anniston, Ala.; on December 22 was ordered by Captain A. W. Yancey, commanding signal station, to report for detached duty in charge of telephone and other special service at headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Fourth Army Corps, commanded by Brigadier General L. W. Colby; honorably discharged February 6, 1899, with record of service, hones and faithful. Residence, Beatrice, Neb.
Parents: General Leonard Wright COLBY and Clara Dorothy BEWICK.
Clarence Chilton COLBY was born on 5 MAR 1880 in New York City, New York County, New York. He was adopted about 1883. He appeared in the census on 16 JUN 1900 in Midland, Gage County, Nebraska.
TRUMPETER CLARENCE C. COLBY
Clarence C. Colby was born in New York City, March 6, 1882, and moved to Nebraska three years thereafter; adopted son of Brigadier General L. W. Colby; enlisted in Lincoln, Neb., May 14, 1898, as Trumpeter; served with the regiment till August, 1898, when he was assigned by order of General Breckinridge, commanding Camp George H. Thomas at Chickamauga Park, Ga., as Brigade Trumpeter and Mounted Orderly to Brigadier General Colby; afterward by special orders No. 282, A. G. O., was transferred as first-class private to United States Volunteer Signal Corps, to date September 7, 1898, and assigned to the Seventeenth Signal Company at Anniston, Ala.; on December 22 was ordered by Captain A. W. Yancey, commanding signal station, to report for detached duty in charge of telephone and other special service at headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Fourth Army Corps, commanded by Brigadier General L. W. Colby; honorably discharged February 6, 1899, with record of service, hones and faithful. Residence, Beatrice, Neb.
Parents: General Leonard Wright COLBY and Clara Dorothy BEWICK.
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