Alexander Piper and Adelaide Cozzens

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Husband Alexander Piper ¹

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           Born: 1828 1
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         Father: Alexander M. Piper (1786-1868) 2
         Mother: Ann Espy Elder (1794-1886) 2

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       Marriage: 1870 3

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Wife Adelaide Cozzens ³

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Piper

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He graduated from West Point; commissioned brevet second lieutenant, third artillery, July 1, 1851; second lieutenant, December 12, 1851; first lieutenant, January 31, 1855; appointed captain of the Eighteenth infantry, May 14, 1861, but declined, and commissioned captain Third artillery same day; for gallant and meritorious service during the campaign in Northern Virginia, commissioned brevet major August 30, 1862; appointed colonel Tenth New York artillery, January 7, 1863; for gallant and meritorious service in the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, appointed brevet lieutenant-colonel, June 16, 1864; mustered out of volunteer service, July 6, 1865; commissioned major Fourth artillery, December 20, 1875, and subsequently lieutenant-colonel of First artillery.

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General Notes: Wife - Adelaide Cozzens

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from West Point, NY

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 202.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 199.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 203.