A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of twenty-one in Lancaster County November 3, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 8 as a private with Co. D, 178th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), promoted to sergeant, and honorably discharged with his company July 27, 1863. His obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal erroneously claims he volunteered.
He served as alderman of Lancaster's 9th Ward for thirty-nine years. He died at his home in Lancaster where he had been born, a victim of "chronic nephritis (Bright's disease)" with "bronchitis (acute)" a contributing factor. He had been a member of Reynolds Post No., 405, G.A.R.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of twenty-one in Lancaster County November 3, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 8 as a private with Co. D, 178th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), promoted to sergeant, and honorably discharged with his company July 27, 1863. His obituary in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal erroneously claims he volunteered.
He served as alderman of Lancaster's 9th Ward for thirty-nine years. He died at his home in Lancaster where he had been born, a victim of "chronic nephritis (Bright's disease)" with "bronchitis (acute)" a contributing factor. He had been a member of Reynolds Post No., 405, G.A.R.
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