Portrait and biographical record of Orange county, New York, Containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the countyTogether with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . orge E.: Charles of Cornwall: and Mar> F., William B., Albert Abbie Annie M. aud Sarah M. died at the age of two years. James A. Beakes was reared on the home farm,where he remained until his enhstment in theUnited States serce during the War of the Re-bellion. He received his primary education inthe district school,
Portrait and biographical record of Orange county, New York, Containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the countyTogether with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . orge E.: Charles of Cornwall: and Mar> F., William B., Albert Abbie Annie M. aud Sarah M. died at the age of two years. James A. Beakes was reared on the home farm,where he remained until his enhstment in theUnited States serce during the War of the Re-bellion. He received his primary education inthe district school, and completed it in Wall-kill Academ\. On the 5th of August. 1S62,he enlisted in Company E. One Hundred andTwenty-fourth Xew York Infantrv. aud as a pri-vate was mustered into ser\-ice at Goshen. Amongthe engagements in which he participated wereFredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettys-burg. In the last-mentioned engagement, inwhich they were engaged three days, all the of-ficers of his company were either killed orwounded, and he was left in command of thecompany. After the battle, with nine others ofhis regiment, he was on detached sen-ice. andwas sent to Harts Island to forward troops,where he remained until the close of the HON. CHARLKS ST. JOHN. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1469 He was mustered out and honorably dischargedat the latter place, June 15. 1865, at which timehe was a sergeant in the company-. Returning home, he engaged in farm labor onhis fathers place until his marriage, in 1867,near Mt. Hope, with Miss Mary Augusta birth occurred near that place, and she wasa daughter of Stephen S. Mapes, who was alsoborn in the same locality. Her grandfather,Seth Mapes, was a farmer by occupation, andserved in the War of 1812. Her greatgrandfa-ther, Erastus Mapes, lived to be nearly onehundred years of age. Mrs. Beakes grew towomanhood in her native town, where she re-ceived her primary education, completing hercourse in the Wallkill Academy. .Six ch
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