. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . honorably mustered out of ser-vice, at his own request, at Varan, Virginia, October 12,1864; and was brevetted major by Governor Robinsonin 1S79, for gallant and meritorious services during theWar of the Rebellion. He has been employed by theNew York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad for the lasttwenty-seven years as conductor, excepting the year oi1882, when he was appointed chief despatcher of the[efferson Division, with head-quarters at Carbondale,Pennsylvania, resigning in the spring of 1883 on accountof ill health. Ma
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . honorably mustered out of ser-vice, at his own request, at Varan, Virginia, October 12,1864; and was brevetted major by Governor Robinsonin 1S79, for gallant and meritorious services during theWar of the Rebellion. He has been employed by theNew York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad for the lasttwenty-seven years as conductor, excepting the year oi1882, when he was appointed chief despatcher of the[efferson Division, with head-quarters at Carbondale,Pennsylvania, resigning in the spring of 1883 on accountof ill health. Major Jeffries married Miss Malina W. Stiles, at , New York, Jul>- 25, 1861. Her grandfather, AaronStiles, was an officer in the Revolutionary War. Shedied in 1875. There are two sons living, Harry C. andRichard Jeffries. In 1881 he was married to Mis. LizzieMoulton, of Canandaigua, New York. He attended the Grand Reunion at Washington, D. C,in September, 1892, marching with Carroll Post, oi PortJervis, New York. 202 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). BRIGADIER-GENERAL STRONG VINCENT, (deceased). Brigadier-General Strong Vincent was born inWaterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania, June 17, [837;died near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 7, 1863. Afterpassing through Erie Academy, and working for twoyears in his fathers iron foundry, he entered the ScientificSchool at Hartford, Connecticut; next became a studentof Trinity College, and leaving that was graduated atHarvard in [859. He then studied law, was admitted tothe bar in 1S60, and began practice in Erie. When the Civil War began. General Vincent enlisted asa private fa- three months in the volunteer arm}-; waschosen second lieutenant, and soon after was appointed adjutant. He re-enlisted for three years, was made major,and promoted lieutenant-colonel of the Eighty-thirdPennsylvania Infantry in September, 1861. He was en-gaged in the construction of siege-works at Yorktown,and soon after the battle of Hano
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