Charles Mortimer Wyvell was born November 1839 in Livingston County, New York. He was employed as a blacksmith near Rochester, New York, at the time he enlisted for military service in the 1st New York Mounted Rifles, in August 1861. He was discharged in August 1864. Thereafter, he first went to the Oil Creek region of Pennsylvania, where appears to have engaged in oil speculation, then to North Carolina, to venture in livestock trade . He was married in 1867 to Anibal Eugenia (Jennie) Rulifson of Clifton, New York. The Wyvell's settled in Alma, near Wellsville, in Allegany County, New York, where he was engaged in the trade of blacksmithing. Charles M. Wyvell died in 1912.
From the description of Papers; 1862-1962 bulk 1862-1867. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 449915160
