Rank: Private
Unit: I Co, 2d Dragoons
Enlisted: August 27, 1839 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date of birth: 1811
Hometown: Canton Bern, Switzerland
Occupation prior to enlistment: Stocking maker
Campaign: Second Seminole War
Died: 6 December 1840
Cause of death: Disease unknown
Location of fatality: Picolata, Florida
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Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida
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