Worked as hired hand and at logging in Michigan pine woods.
Moved to Winnebago County, Illinois, then Moline, Ill., then Iowa, arriving in Atchison, Kansas April 5, 1855.
Took up a claim on former Delaware Indian lands.
Civil War veteran, sergeant, Company F, 13th Kansas Infantry (Col. Bowen's regiment), 7th Army Corps.
Served in Missouri and eastern Arkansas, wounded by a bursting shell.
Married Mary E. Cline in 1857.
Additional child's name begins 'Lu' (OCR truncated).
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