An honored resident of Udolpho Township, and courageous veteran of the Civil War.

The Civil War broke out when he was a young man, and he enlisted September 10, 1861, in Company C, 8th New York Cavalry. His service was chiefly in Virginia. He was in the Army of the Potomac and was discharged December 8, 1864.

He participated in over fifty engagements. After his discharge he at once returned to New York, and in December 1864 came to Mower Co., where his parents had preceded him the year before. In the fall of 1873 he moved to a farm which he purchased in section 12, Udolpho Township. This farm at the time was wild prairie and he set about improving it, breaking and cultivating the land and erecting suitable buildings.

Benjamin was a member of Henry Rogers Post, No. 11, Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) at Brownsdale.

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Transcribed from "History of Mower County, 1911"

Submitted to MnGenWeb by Kathy Pike, Oct. 2006