Rank: Private
Unit: H Co, 2d Dragoons
Enlisted: July 25, 1839 in New York, New York. He was 21.
Date of birth: 1818
Hometown: Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Occupation prior to enlistment: Cabinet maker
Campaign: Second Seminole War
Died: 7 April 1841
Cause of death: Chronic diarrhea
Location of fatality: Saint John‘s Bluff, Florida
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Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida
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