Enlisted in Company H of the 17th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment on 25 May 1861 and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 25 April 1862. Was attached to Company E of the 8th Illinois Infantry at Vicksburg on 4 Jun 1864 and promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 17 Nov 1864. He was discharged on 4 May 1866 at Baton Rouge, LA.
On 17 Sep 1867, he married Ms. Julia E Messplay at Lewistown, Illinois.
In 1873, they moved to Clarinda, Iowa and then in 1875 to Los Angeles, California where he lived in the county for the rest of his life.
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