Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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Capt. George Murray Templeton




Husband Capt. George Murray Templeton 1

           Born: 3 May 1841 - Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA 1
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           Died: 4 May 1870 1
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         Father: David Templeton (      -1869) 1
         Mother: Eliza Murray (1809-1891) 1





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General Notes: Husband - Capt. George Murray Templeton


Abandoning his studies at Jefferson College he enlisted, at the age of twenty, in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; was mustered into service August 23, 1862; appointed captain in the Thirty-second Regiment U. S. Colored Troops February 17, 1864; was wounded at the battle of Honey Creek, SC, November 30, 1864; mustered out at close of Civil war, August 22, 1865; entered the regular army, February 23, 1866, as second lieutenant in the Eighteenth Regular U. S. Infantry; October 19, 1867, was appointed a captain in the Twenty-seventh Regular U. S. Infantry.

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Sources


1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 616.


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