Rank: Private
Unit: B Trp, 2d Cavalry
Enlisted: April 22, 1896 in Springfield, Illinois. He was 26.
Date of birth: 1870
Hometown: Germany
Occupation prior to enlistment: Laborer
Campaign: Plains Indian War (post Civil War)
Died: 29 July 1897
Age of death: 26 or 27
Cause of death: Drowned
Location of fatality: Lake Monument, Colorado
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Place of interment: Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver, Colorado
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Note: He drowned trying to save PVT William Jacobson.