the brave victim of the desperate raid, was born at Fitzwilliam, N. H.,
August 12th, 1837. He left home when about twenty years of age, and passed
the better part of a year in Concord, Mass., and then changed his
residence to Fitchburg, remaining there not far from a year. At the age of
twenty-three, or in 1860, he came as far west as New Baltimore, Mich., and
for some twelve months was occupied as clerk and book-keeper in a drug
store. Moline, Illinois, then became his home for a short time, but the
war of the rebellion raging, he went to Chicago and enlisted for three
years in the 127th Illinois regiment. This was in 1862. Soon after he was
ordered to the front and saw not a little of hard service on the march,
and on the field of battle. He was present at the unsuccessful attack on
Vicksburg, and also at the capture of Arkansas Post. Not long after, his
health giving way through exposure and over exertion, he was sent first to
the hospital, and then sent, more dead than alive, to his friends in
Illinois. A few months later, recovering his health sufficiently to do
light service, he was detailed as druggist in a dispensary at Nashville,
where he remained until the close of the war, and was discharged in May,
1865. The next year was spent, for the most part, with friends in
Illinois, and then we find him, in the summer of 1866, in Minnesota, and
in Faribault, and the year after in Minneapolis, in a drug store again. In
the fall of 1867, he removed to Northfield to keep books in the lumber
yard, for S. P. Stewart. Four years since he accepted the position in the
bank which he held till all earthly occupations came to a sudden and
untimely end.
He was a man whose integrity and honor were never impeached, a good
citizen and neighbor, a friend to be sought, and a loving and loved
husband and father.