Company B.
Was born in Putnam county, New York. April 2d, 1834. In 1836 his parents removed to Seneca county, where they resided until 1849. Thence to Orleans county. His education was obtained at the district school, and in the winter of 1854 he taught school in the town of Waterport. In the spring of 1854 he with two elder brothers came to Jones county. Iowa, and as he was brought up on the farm he continued the same occupation until the spring of 1859, when he with three others started for California, overland route, with three yokes of cattle. They followed the line of emigration as far as Laramie; then as there was quite an outburst at Pike's Peak the party turned off and landed in the new Eldorado. It was then getting late in the season for moving. and they began to look for winter quarters, and drifted south to Taos, New Mexico, and returned to the mines for the summer. Thence back to Jones county. Iowa, in the fall. The following winter he was deputy recorder, which place he occupied until he enlisted.
After returning from the army he served three terms as Sheriff of the county. commencing in 1868, at the expiration of which he engaged with Daniel Stewart to canvass for his county map in the States of Ohio and Michigan. He remained with him a year and a half. His health was then so much impaired that he returned to Anamosa, His disease had then taken a strong hold and continued to increase until the spring of 1876, when he succumbed to that fatal disease, consumption, which was undoubtedly caused by a rebel bullet that could not be extracted from his wound and had worked down to the left lung. He left a wife and two children.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 331
Was born in Putnam county, New York. April 2d, 1834. In 1836 his parents removed to Seneca county, where they resided until 1849. Thence to Orleans county. His education was obtained at the district school, and in the winter of 1854 he taught school in the town of Waterport. In the spring of 1854 he with two elder brothers came to Jones county. Iowa, and as he was brought up on the farm he continued the same occupation until the spring of 1859, when he with three others started for California, overland route, with three yokes of cattle. They followed the line of emigration as far as Laramie; then as there was quite an outburst at Pike's Peak the party turned off and landed in the new Eldorado. It was then getting late in the season for moving. and they began to look for winter quarters, and drifted south to Taos, New Mexico, and returned to the mines for the summer. Thence back to Jones county. Iowa, in the fall. The following winter he was deputy recorder, which place he occupied until he enlisted.
After returning from the army he served three terms as Sheriff of the county. commencing in 1868, at the expiration of which he engaged with Daniel Stewart to canvass for his county map in the States of Ohio and Michigan. He remained with him a year and a half. His health was then so much impaired that he returned to Anamosa, His disease had then taken a strong hold and continued to increase until the spring of 1876, when he succumbed to that fatal disease, consumption, which was undoubtedly caused by a rebel bullet that could not be extracted from his wound and had worked down to the left lung. He left a wife and two children.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 331
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