History of Cumberland and Adams counties, Pennsylvania. Containing history of the counties, their townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc.; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, etc., etc, Part 67

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WILLIAM HENRY MILLER (deceased) was born near Millerstown, Adams Co., Penn., January 15, 1820. He attended the Pennsylvania College until about the age of eighteen, when his father moved to this county and bought the Cumberland Furnace, now owned by the Crane Iron Company. Hle soon after entered the law office of Judge John Reed, and was admitted to the bar. He married, May 30, 1843, Miss Jane Rebecca McDowell, who was born in Carlisle, Penn., a daughter of Andrew and Rebecca ( Wilson) McDowell. Mrs. Miller is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, of Carlisle. Mr. McDowell was born near Pittsburgh, and clerked in Philadelphia when a young man. He married in Perry County, Penn., and after that event came to this county. He was a son of Alexander and Nancy (Archer) MeDowell, the former of whom was a civil engineer, and a son of Andrew McDowell, a Scotchinan, who married. in Pennsylvana. Miss Sarah Shankland, of Port Lewis. Del. They settled in this county and became rich, owning iron works and a great many slaves. Rebecca Wilson, mother of Mrs. William Henry Miller, was a daughter of Maj. James Armstrong Wilson (a major in the Revolutionary war), a graduate of the Princeton College, who was admitted to the bar at Easton, Penn., where he afterward practiced. He was a large land owner and farmer of this county, where he was born. He married Miss Margaret Miller, a native of Carlisle, Penn., and a

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daughter of Robert Miller, a rich tanner. His wife was Elizabeth Calhoon, a native of Juniata County, Penn. Mr. William H. Miller died June 18, 1877, a member of the Sec- ond Presbyterian Church of Carlisle.

"His place, in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the Summer hills, Is that his grave is green."

JOHNSTON MOORE, of Carlisle, is a descendant of James Moore, who came to America from Ireland in 1730, and purchased large traets of land along the Yellow Breeches Creek. At the death of James Moore, which occurred about the elose of the eighteenth century, he left four sous aud three daughters. The third son, John, who was born August 29, 1740, and died October 18, 1822, married Eleanor Thompson, who was born in 1746 and died May 15, 1817. At their death they left five sons and two daughters. James Moore, Esq., the eldest son, born in 1765, was married January 28, 1808, to Nancy Johnston, of Antrim Township, Franklin Co., Penn., a daughter of Col. Thomas Johnston, a distinguished officer of the Revolution. (It may be mentioned here that these Johnstons are descendants of the celebrated Johnstons of Dumfrieshire, Scotland. James, the great- grandfather of Johnston Moore, cameto America in 1735. They were also among the noted military families of Pennsylvania.) Dr. Robert, a brother of Col. Thomas Johnston, and who was an intimate friend of Washington and La Fayette and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, joined the American forces before Boston, and continued with them until the surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktown. James Moore, Esq., died in 1813, and his wife in 1823, leaving one son, Johnston Moore, born September 5, 1809. After the death of his parents he lived with his aunt, Elizabeth Johnston McLanahan, at her home, Prospect Hill, near Greencastle. He was educated a Dickinson College, Carlisle, and during this time lived with his guardian, Andrew Carothers, Esq. At the age of eighteen he took possession and management of his estate, including the original lands which had descended to him from his great-grandfather James, aud which he still holds. On the 15th of July, 1836, he married Mary Veasey Parker, daughter of Isaac Brown Parker, of Carlisle. They had three sons and six daughters. All of these children are dead except three daughters. Johnston Moore's life has been passed quietly in the management of his estate and in pur- suit of his favorite sports, hunting and fishing. He owns one of the finest trout preserves in the State, "Bonny Brook," one mile and a half from his home. lle is a vestryman of St. John's Church, and has lived since his marriage at his present residence in Carlisle.

GEORGE MURRAY was born uear Fort Pitt, western Pennsylvania, March 17, 1762, and was the only child of William and Susanna (Sly) Murray. He was left an orphan, and in early life settled in Carlisle, where he died May 6, 1855, in his ninety-fourth year. On the 21st of June, 1804, he was married, by the Rev. Dr. Davidson, to Mary Deuny, daughter of William and Agnes (Parker) Denny, and sister of Maj. Ebenezer Denny, of Revolutionary fame, who was born in Carlisle March 5, 1778, and there died April 10, 1845, in her sixty-eighth year.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER MURRAY, the youngest son of George and Mary (Denny) Murray, was born in Carlisle October 2, 1815. His preparatory education had been ob- tained in his native place and elsewhere, and in August, 1837, he graduated from the Western University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh. In the autumn of the same year he entered the Western Theological Seminary iu Allegheny, Penn., and from it graduated in the autumn of 1840. Iu October of the same year he was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of Ohio, which then embraced the churches in and about Pittsburgh. Soon after he received invitations to visit vacant churches, and accepted one to preach at Marion, Ohio. This chureb he supplied for six months, from December, 1840, to May, 1841, inclusive, but finally declined a unanimous call to become its settled pastor. He then visited his native place, and in October, 1841, received and accepted a call to the united congregations of Monaghan (Dillsburg) and Petersburg, and was ordained and installed pastor of the same by the Carlisle Presbytery in April, 1843. This relation hap- pily and usefully subsisted for about eighteen years. During his pastorate the present church edifice was erected at Dillsburg. For years he served there also as school di- rector, aud was president of the board. During the same period he had received several invitations to churches at other places, which he declined. Finally, however, in conse- quence of impaired health, he resigned the charge. The pastoral relation was dissolved in October, 1858, and he then retired to Carlisle, but he often afterward ministered to the charge in Dillsburg, and supplied for years the church at Petersburg. Ilis health never again permitted him to undertake the active work and assume the responsibilities of a settled pastor, though he has often filled vacant pulpits and assisted his clerical friends. Of all the members who belouged to the venerable Presbytery of Carlisle in 1841, when he joined it, he is now the only one who is still in connection with it. The body now numbers forty-two ministers and three licentiates, but only two are before him on the presbyteria? roll, and because of their prior ordinatiou, which was the basis for the recon- struction of the rolls in the union of the two branches of the church in 1870. On four different occasions he has been chosen by his presbytery as a commissioner to the Gen- eral Assembly-in 1844, 1861, 1865 and 1875. On the last occasion he had also been

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chosen by his synod, with the Hon. H. W. Williams, to defend, if necessary. a decision of said body before the General Assembly, and in this highest church court he was ap- pointed one of the judicial committee. In 1876 he was chosen, by acclamation, modera- tor of the Synod at Harrisburg. In 1869 his alma mater conferred on him the honorary degree of D D. In 1870 he was elected a corresponding member of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia. In 1873 he was elected a member of the Historical So- ciety of Pennsylvania. At a public meeting held in Carbsle in 1876 he was selected to pre- pare an historical address pertaining to Cumberland County, to be delivered on the 4th of July of said year, but circumstances prevented. In 1880 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia. In 1886 he was elected a director of the Western Theological Seminary, in Allegheny City, Penn. In the same year he was appointed to furnish biographical sketches for the centennial anniversary of the Carlisle Presbytery, but declined in favor of his alternate. He is president of the Cumberland County Bible Society, also secretary of the llamilton Library and Historical Association of Carlisle. Several of his discourses and addresses have been published. le frequently contributes to some of the periodicals of our country, literary, historical and religious, in which work he still continues, as well as preaches and ministerially officiates when de- sired, nud is able to do so. But in no instance would he accept of any work or position that would interfere with his high calling and character as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Dr. Murray has been twice married-first. April 25, 1843, to Miss Ann Hays Blair, of Carlisle, daughter of Mr. Andrew Blair, born May 6, 1819, and died September 14, 1875; secondly. October 2, 1879, to Miss Lydia Steele Foster, of Philadelphia, born March 9, 1836, in Carlisle, daughter of Mr. Crawford Foster, and niece of Dr. Alfred Fos- ter, all natives of Carlisle. By the first marriage he had one child, born February 11, 1848: graduated in 1866 from the Mary Institute. Carlisle, then under the presidency of the Rev. Dr. Francis J. Clere, and in January, 1868, married Prof. Charles F. Ilunes, Ph. D., who has been an honored member of the faculty of Dickinson College since 1865.

GEORGE NORCROSS, D D., Carlisle, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, was born on his father's farm near Erie, Erie Co., Penn., April8, 1838. His parents were Hiram and Elizabeth (Mcclelland) Norcross, the former of Erie County, and the latter of Crawford. George, our subject, is eldest in a family of five sons and one daughter: Will- iam C., an attorney, of Monmouth. Ill .: I}. Flemming, attorney, of Chicago, Ill., Isaiah, a business man, of Monmouth; Thomas Rice, grain dealer, Liberty, Neb .; and Sarah, wife of Henry Beckwith, died in 1863, are the other children. The family removed from Erie County to Monmouth, Ill., iu 1844. George graduated at Monmouth College in 1861, and the fall of that year entered the Northwestern Theological Seminary at Chicago, where he remained one year. Returning to Monmouth he was elected to a professor- ship in Monmonth College, which he held for two years, and during that time studied theology at the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Monmonth, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Warren, in April, 1863; preached at North Hen- derson, Ill., where he remained three years, and during one winter of that time, attended the Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey. In the spring of 1866 he was called to the Presbyterian Church at Galesburg. Ill., and preached there until January, 1869, when, having been called to the Second Church of Carlisle, he moved hither. During his ministry here the manse and new church building, corner of Hanover and Pomfret streets have been erected: His labors in this church have been very successful: from a membership of 230 it has grown to 400. and is entirely out of debt. He was married. in Monmouth. IN., October 1. 1863, to Miss Mary S. Tracy, who died March 25, 1865; and on April 22, 1867, Rev. Mr. Norcross married Mrs. Louisa Jackson Gale, widow of Maj. Josiah Gale, of Gales- burg. To this union five children were born (four now living): Delia Jackson, born in Galesburg; George born in Carlisle, where he died December 28, 1878, aged eight years; Bessie, Mary Jackson, and Louisa Jackson Norcross. In 1879 Princeton College conferred the degree of D. D on Mr. Norcross.

JOSEPH WHEELER PATTON (deceased) was born at Bellefonte. Penn., De- cember 22, 1803, the second child of three sons and two daughters, of Benjamin and Phœhe Patton. When a young man, Mr. Patton came to Harrisburg, and first clerked for Mr. Haldeman, an iron merchant, and later for a Mr. Espy, a dry goods merchant. Sub- sequently he rented the Mary Ann Furnace, located near Shippensburg with which he was identified until 1835. when he became superintendent of the Lancaster Railway, a position he held for six months, when he went to Maria Furnace in Adams County, Penn., where he was engaged in clerking for a short time, when he received, at the hands of Gov. Ritner, the appointment of superintendent of the Portage Railway, which he filled two years, residing at Carlisle, where he subsequently kept the Mansion House; thereafter went to Mount Holly Furnace of which he was manager for Robert Givin. Later he and Mr. Mullin bought the Mount Holly Springs Hotel, from which Mr. Patton retired in two years, returned to Carlisle, and kept the Mansion House, with the exception of a short time, until the war. lle was then appointed provost-marshal under Col R M Hen- derson. Ile also served as collector of internal revenue for the Fifteenth District of Pennyslvania for three or four years, after which he retired from active life. Ilis death

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occurred October 30, 1880, and thereby the people of Cumberland County lost one of their prominent aud useful citzens. Mr. Patton married, December 2, 1834, Miss Mary Noble, of Carlisle, who was born in the old Mansion House, Carlisle, March 12, 1814, a daughter of James Noble, who was born in Ireland, in December. 1775, and who at the age of twenty years came to America with his father, John Noble, who settled in Carlisle. James Noble married Miss Mary Cooper, of Carlisle. To the marriage of Joseph W. Pat- ton and Mary Noble one child (deceased) was born. The widow is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Patton was treasurer for sixteen years, until his death.

THOMAS PAXTON, retired, Carlisle, was born on his father's farm near Cumber- land, Allegany Co., Md., May 24. 1807. His father, Samuel Paxton, came from Scot- land when a young man, with his brothers, Joseph and James. Joseph located in the western part of Pennsylvania, James somewhere in Virginia, and Samuel, the eldest of the three, in Bedford County, Penn., but afterward moved to near Cumberland, Md. Samuel Paxton was possessed of means, which, however, he lost before the birth of his youngest son. He was a captain in the Revolution. He was twice married, his first wife being a Miss Bageley, of Bedford County, Penn., who bore him three children: Da- vid and Joseph, who removed to Kentucky, and Prudence, who died unmarried; and his second wife was Miss Elizabeth Lesher, of English birth, who bore him four sons and five daughters: Nancy, Rachael, Mary. John, Joseph, Ellen, William, Susan, and Thomas. The latter was but an infant when his father died. He attended school until he was fif- teeu years of age, when he determined to become a business man. He secured employ- ment on the Potomac, as chief clerk for Mr. George Hobbleson, who owned a line of produce boats. About this time our subject's old friend, Gen. Thomas Dunn, was ap- pointed by Gen. Jackson superintendent of the Government works at Harpers Ferry, and young Paxton was employed as confidential clerk, in which capacity he remained until 1826, when Gen. Dunn was shot by an employe, whom he had discharged. Subsequent- ly Mr. Paxton became superintendent for Gen. Ridgley's iron works, at Piney Woods, five miles south of Baltimore, and as such served until the death of Gen. Ridgley. one year later. Soon after this (in 1828) Mr. Paxton received a proposition from Adam Hauk, of Cumberland County, to build a forge ou Yellow Breeches Creek, in Dickinson Town- ship, which he complied with. April 30, 1838, he was married to Miss Galbraith, of Cum- berland County, daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Moore) Galbraith, and he, after his mar- riage, purchased and operated Moore's mill on the Yellow Breeches for about five years, when he sold out, and began to build railroads, first building some two miles of the Cum- berland Valley Railway. and graded six miles of the Baltimore & Ohio Road, between Martinsburg and Cumberland, Va. He next performed work for the Pennsylvania Rail- way Company for four consecutive years, when he became employed ou the North Penn- sylvania Railroad, grading up through the coal regions, remaining for two years, when he built the Mechanicsburg & Dillsburg road. Mr. Paxton owns a great deal of stock in various roads east and west. He, in company with Robert Givin, organized the Farmers Bank of Carlisle, and on the death of Mr. Givin, some years later, who was its president, Mr. Paxton was elected his successor. remaining president of the bank some years, when he resigned and retired from business. Mrs. Paxton died in 1848, the mother of two children: Ellen, who died at the age of nine years, and Annie M . widow of Park Moore, the eldest son of Johnson Moore, of Carlisle. October 18, 1859, Mr. Paxton was married to Mrs. Olivia Farnsley, of Evansville, Ind., who was born in that place January 23, 1834, daughter of John and Elvira (Riggs) Mitchell (a large property owner of Evansville, and for many years president of the Branch of the State Bank of Evansville, from its organ- ization until his death), and grand-daughter of Joseph Mitchell and Elizabeth Campbell, the latter of whom was a direct descendant of the celebrated Rob Roy and also of the Laird of Glenfalloch. The first husband of Mrs. Paxton was Dr. David A. Farnsley, whom she married December 21, 1854, he being a native of near Louisville, Ky., son of David and Sarah (Merriweather) Farnsley. Dr. Farnsley died in April, 1855. Mrs. Farnsley had one daughter, Albertina Olivia, who was born October 2, 1855, now wife of Frank E. Bradner, attorney at law, Newark, N J. To the last marriage of Mr. Paxton were born two children: Thomas, who died in infancy. and Josephine E., who resides with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Paxton are members of St. John's Episcopal Church.

H. K. PEFFER, editor and proprietor of the daily and weekly Sentinel, is a native of Cumberland County, Penn. His parents were Adam and Mary (Kerr) Peffer, also natives of the same county. Adam Peffer was of German parentage; Mary Kerr of Scotch descent. He was born in South Middleton Township January 13, 1827; was raised on a farm; and at the age of twenty four immigrated, in 1853. to Warren County, Ill., where for ten years he was engaged in farming. At the expiration of that time he took up his residence in Monmouth, Ill., where he formed a law partnership with Col. James W. Davidson, which continued for three years. In 1862 he was elected to the Legislature as a represent- ative from Warren County, and at the expiration of his term received the unanimous nomination of his party for State senator. He was also, at the same time, named as one of the presidential electors on the Mcclellan ticket in 1864. In the fall of 1865 he removed

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with his family to Carlisle, Penn., where, after spending a year in Texas and the South- west. he permanently located. In 1871 he received the nomination of his party for State senator-the senatorial district then embracing Cumberland and Franklin Counties. In that year the Democracy was unsuccessful, the entire ticket, with one or two exceptions, being defeated. In 1872 he was admitted to the Carlisle bar, but shortly after took charge of the Valley Sentinel, which was then published at Shippensburg. In 1874 the Sentinel was removed to Carlisle, when he became sole owner of the paper. In 1881 the daily evening Sentinel was issued from the office of the weekly, and was the first daily paper ever issued in Cumberland County. In 1848 Mr. Peffer was married to Jane Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Weakley. His family consists of following: Mary, William, Charles, Adam and Kitty, all of whom are residents of the county.

WILLIAM GLANCY PEFFER, dealer in agricultural implements, Carlisle, and chief burgess of the city, was born in South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, No- vember 11, 1833, a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Glancy) Peffer, the former of whom was a son of Henry, and he a son of Philip Peffer, a native of Germany. Mrs. Elizabeth (Glancy) Peffer was a daughter of William Glancy, a native of Ireland. William G. was reared on a farm, und with agricultural interests he has always been considerably identi- fied; although he has carried on other lines of business, he has been ever active in the development of the social and industrial life of his locality. He has served with credit in official capacities in South Middleton Township, this county, and recently was elected to his present office. He married here Rebecca G., daughter of Andrew and Eliza Wash- wood, of Dickinson Township, to which union two daughters and one son have been born, viz .: Iva G. and Nettie, young ladies of clever literary and musical attainments, and Am- brose, a student of medicine. Mr. Peffer has always contributed liberally to measures tending to the welfare of his locality, and has drawn around him the respect of all classes through his benevolence and kindness. The family attend worship at the First Presby- terian Church.

WILLIAM McFUNN PENROSE (deceased) was born in Carlisle, this county, March 29, 1825. the eldest child of Hon. Charles Bingham and Valeria Fullerton (Biddle) Pen- rose. He graduated from old Dickinson College, Carlisle, and, in 1857 married Miss Val- eria Collins Merenant, who was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., a daughter of Gen. Charles Speneer Merchant, a native of New York, and a grandson of Rev. Elisha Spencer. To Mr. and Mrs. Penrose were born four daughters: Sarah Merchant. Valeriu Biddle, Ellen Williams and Jennie Anderson Merchant. They reside with their mother on High Street, Carlisle.

CAPT. WILLIAM MONTGOMERY PORTER (deceased), was born in Carlisle, August 5. 1808, and died July 27, 1873. His grandfather, Robert Porter, with his family, left Scotland and settled at Coleraine, Ireland. Robert Porter was stamp master of County Down until the Rebellion of 1798, when he took part as a " United Irishman," and was the friend of James Nappertandy, Thomas Sedley Birch, Robert Emmet, and Lord Fitzgerald, who were all "United Irishmen," and leaders in the Rebellion. He and his eldest son, William, the father of the subject of this sketch, were pursued by the king's troops and obliged to flee for their lives. They found their way to a seaport, got on board of a vessel bound for America, and after a three months' voyage, landed at Camden, New Jersey. They, with the rest of the family. soon afterward settled on a small stream in Lancaster County, called "Swatara," and after a time they moved to Perry County and finally to Carlisle. Sarah Montgomery Porter, the mother of William M. Porter, was born in Carlisle, near the close of the Revolution. Her family, the Montgomerys, were from Scotland. William M. Porter read law under Samuel A. McCoskry, afterward bishop of Michigan, and was admitted to the Carlisle bar in 1835. He practiced for a time, but from 1836 to 1839 was editor of the Perry County Freeman, and from 1856 to 1861 of the Carlisle Hlerald. In October. 1839, he was commissioned by Gov. David R. Porter as captain of the Carlisle Light Artillery. In 1811 he was appointed postmaster of Carlisle, and served four years under the administration of President Tyler. In October, 1862, he was commissioned by Gov Curtin as captain of Company A. One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served until May 21. 1863, having been in the engagements at Sonth Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Petersburg. Before this time, 1851, Capt. Porter had been elected treasurer of Cumberland County. He was a corresponding member of the lhistorical Society of Pennsylvania. His last position was under Gov. Hartranft. in the office of Secretary of the Commonwealth. Capt. Porter married Martha Vashon, by whom he had five daughters: Sarah J., now Mrs. Petinos; Fanny M .. now Mrs. William Mullen; Mattie, now Mrs. Sellers; Ida II., now Mrs. Crook; and Minnie, now Mrs. Buckingham. As a husband and father Capt. Porter was kind, ns an editor able, as a soldier brave, and as a citizen esteemed, quiet and unos- tentations. He is among the number of the citizens of Carlisle, who have died within the memory of this generation. and who well deserve to be remembered.

CAPT. RICHARD HENRY PRATT, superintendent of the United States Indian In- dustrial Schools at Carlisle, to which position he was appointed in September, 1879, is & native of Rushford, Allegany Co., N. Y., horn December 6, 1840, a son of Richard S. and

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Mary (Herrick) Pratt. Richard S. Pratt, who was a contractor and huilder of canals, constructed the Welland Caual, in Canada, and the Wabash Canal, in Ohio and Indiana. To Richard S and Mary (Herrick) Pratt were born three sons, of whom Capt. Pratt is the eldest. Iu the summer of 1846, the family moved to Logansport, Ind .. where our subject attended the common school and Logansport Seminary, and in 1857 he began to learn the tinner's and coppersmith's trades. He removed to Delphi, in 1858, where he remained working at his trade until the breaking out of the late Rebellion, when, on April 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Ninth Indiana Infantry; was discharged July 29, 1861, and re-enlisted in Company A, Second Indiana Cavalry, September 18, 1861, and served as sergeant and first sergeant until April 19, 1864, when he was promoted first lieutenant of Company C, of the Eleventh Indiana Cavalry. September 1. 1864, he was promoted cap- taiu of this company, and May 29, 1865, was mustered out of the service. Capt. Pratt participated in the battles of Philippi, Va., June 3, 1861; Laurel Hill, Va., July 7; Bel- ington, Va., July 10, and Carrick's Ford, Va., July 13 and 14; in 1862, Shiloh, Tenn., April 6 and 7; Pea Ridge, Tenn., April 15; Monterey, Tenn., April 17; several engage- ments around Corinth, Miss., April 30 to May 30; Tuscumbia Creek, Miss., May 31; Mc- Minnville, Tenn., August 9; Gallatin, August 13 (where his horse was shot); engagements about Murfreesboro, Tenn., August 20, 25, 27, and September 7, New Haven, Ky., captur- ing the Third Georgia Cavalry in September; Perryville, Ky., and Crab Orchard, October 6, 7 and 8; Stone River, December 31 to January 3, 1863; in 1863, Murfreesboro, Tenn., March 10; Shelbyville Pike, June 6; Triune, Tenu., June 11; Shelbyville, Tenn., June 23; Tullahoma, June 25; Middletown, June 24; Grey's Gap. June 27; Elk River Bridge, July 2; Sparta, August 9; Chickamauga, Ga., September 19 and 20; Anderson's Cross Roads, and pursuit of Wheeler (fighting daily); in 1864, Huntsville, Ala., in Octo- ber; Shoal Creek, Ala., November 9; Lawrenceburg, Tenn., November 22; Campbells- ville, Tenn., November 24; Nashville, November 15 and 16 (where he had a horse killed); Hollow Tree Gap, Tenn., December 17; Linnville, Tenn., December 23; Pulaski, Tenn., December 25 and 26. At the close of the war the Captain returned to Delphi, Ind., and there worked at his trade until September, 1865, when he went to Bement, Ill., and one year later to Minnesota, where he remained for a few months, and then returned to Logan-port, Ind., and was tendered au appointment by Schuyler Colfax as second lieu- tenant in the Tenth Regular Cavalry, which he accepted, and joined his company at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, in June, 1867, and July 31 of that year was promoted first lieu- tenant of the same company, which office he held until February 7, 1883, when he was promoted captain. April 20, 1864, Capt. Pratt was married to Miss Anna Laura Mason, of Jamestown, N. Y., a daughter of Belden B. and Mercy (Whilcomb) Masou, to whom have been born four children: Masou D., born January 23, 1865; Cora Marion, October 2, 1868; Nana Laura, July 27, 1871, and Richeuda Henrietta, August 25, 1882. Capt. Pratt belongs to St. John's Blne Lodge, No. 260. The Indian Industrial School, of which he is at the head, and for whose improvement he has worked untiringly for years, owing to his good management is a successful institution.

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