LIVED ON A FARM IN BUCKS TOWNSHIP, OHIO ALL HIS LIFE W/ THE EXCEPTION OF THE TIME HE SERVED IN THE CIVIL WAR.
ACCORDING TO WAR RECORDS, HE WAS ENROLLED AT NEWARK, OHIO, FEB. 27, 1864, AND WAS DISCHARGED AT LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, AUG. 13, 1865. HE SERVED IN COMPANY G. 80TH REG. O.V.I.
IT IS BELIEVED HE SERVED UNDER GENERAL SHERMAN AND WAS WITH HIS ARMY IN THE "MARCH TO THE SEA."
