Sergeant in the 37th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company K during the Civil War and had enlisted from Danville, Ill. at the age of sixteen, discharged in 1866 in Texas, later lived in Texas, California, and Washington where he married Della Pickard, had four children and had a successful steamship business hauling people and freight to the towns around the Puget Sound and was named U.S Marshal of Washington District by President Harrison. His family lived in Danville during the war and his brother Willie was killed at Shiloh. He remained lifelong friends with Colonel John C. Black of the 37th. He died of "consumption"(tuberculosis) in 1897.
From the description of Papers, 1831, 1860-1909. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 50674138
