Individual Details
(11 FEB 1838 - 22 AUG 1894)
Occupation: Shoemaker, before Civil War; Laborer for William Dilworth, Jr. at his planing mill and lumber yard in Pittsburgh, PA. Served in the military. He enlisted as a private in the Union Army in the Civil War on 28 Jun 1861 at Wheeling, WV in Company A of the 1st Regiment of the Virginia Lt. Artillery and was honorably discharged at Wheeling, WV on 8 Aug 1864. He became totally blind on or about 1 May 1875 and applied for Civil War Disability Pension, claiming that his blindness was the result of a very bad cold caused by exposure during the Civil War. The cold settled in his head causing partial deafness and in Jul 1864 it also slightly affected his eyesight. After his discharge, his hearing improved and his eyesight got worse, until in 1875 he was totally blind. Before he enrolled in the military he had been a shoemaker. After his discharge he worked as a laborer. He had been working for William Dilworth, Jr. at his planing mill and lumberyard in the city of Pittsburgh as a laborer.
Events
| Birth | 11 FEB 1838 | Vorwalde, Parish of Venne, Kingdom of Hanover | | | |
| Immigration | 24 MAY 1854 | Baltimore City, MD |  | | |
| Marriage | 4 OCT 1866 | Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA - Katharine HOENIG/HAERING | | | |
| Death | 22 AUG 1894 | Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA | | | |
| Burial | | First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Cem., Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA | | | |
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