Was born in St. Albans, Vermont, and came west with his parents to Wisconsin when it was a territory, and when thirteen years old ran away from home and was with the Menomonee Indians two years. In the meantime his father moved to Iowa, and he came home in 1860. At the first news of Fort Sumter being fired upon, he enlisted for three months and began recruiting a company in connection with Dr. T. H. Barnes, of Waukon, Iowa, but owing to the rush of troops farther south he could not get in, and shortly after enlisted in Company K, First Iowa Cavalry, for three years or during the war.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 347
