from Merrick County, Nebraska Genweb site: Source: "Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska containing a History of the State of Nebraska," Alden Publishing Company, 1912...info on Lutellus Frazer on page 412
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LUTELLUS L. FRAZER.
Lutellus L. Frazer, of Central City, Nebraska, is widely known as an earnest and reliable citizen, and a man who is to be relied upon and trusted.
Mr. Frazer was born in Pennsylvania, May 21, 1836. the son of Alexander and Amy (Long) Frazer, being the eldest of nine children, and is now the only one living. His father died in August, 1871, and the mother in 1891, both in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Frazer received his education in the home schools, and later carried on tailoring. On June 27, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war, receiving his discharge July 17, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Frazer's first term of enlistment expired in December, 1863, and immediately re-enlisted and veteranized in the same company and regiment. Decisive battles engaged in were at Chancelorville, Virginia, Antietam, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta campaign, march to the sea with Sherman, through the Carolinas to Washington with Sherman, and many minor engagements and skirmishes. He participated in the Grand Review at Washington in June, 1865. At one time he was taken prisoner while scouting and held for three weeks in Virginia. After war Mr. Frazer returned to his home state and engaged in mercantile business for ten years, then followed farming for three years.
On July 4, 1867, Mr. Frazer was united in matrimony to Miss Eliza J. Newmyer, of Pennsylvania. In March, of 1878, our subject came with his wife and family to Merrick county, Nebraska, where he homesteaded eighty acres in section twenty-six, township fourteen, range seven, seven miles northwest of Central City, which remained the home place until 1908, when Mr. Frazer retired from the farm and moved to Central City and purchased a good home where they now live. Mr. Frazer served in various offices of his school district number twenty-six nearly all through his Nebraska years. Mr. and Mrs. Frazer have had four children: Howard M., lost in the first rush to the Klondike gold fields; Jessie M., wife of C. K. Sinsel has eight children, and lives four miles west of Central City; John N., resides in Basin, Wyoming; and Arthur L., married, has three children, and lives five and a half miles northwest of Central City.
Mr. and Mrs. Frazer are among the early settlers of Merrick county, have passed through all the trying experiences and hardships incident to pioneer life, and are widely and favorably known. They are both members of the Baptist church and Mr. Frazer is a member of Buford Post Grand Army of the Republic of Central City. He is a republican in politics.
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LUTELLUS L. FRAZER.
Lutellus L. Frazer, of Central City, Nebraska, is widely known as an earnest and reliable citizen, and a man who is to be relied upon and trusted.
Mr. Frazer was born in Pennsylvania, May 21, 1836. the son of Alexander and Amy (Long) Frazer, being the eldest of nine children, and is now the only one living. His father died in August, 1871, and the mother in 1891, both in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Frazer received his education in the home schools, and later carried on tailoring. On June 27, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war, receiving his discharge July 17, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Frazer's first term of enlistment expired in December, 1863, and immediately re-enlisted and veteranized in the same company and regiment. Decisive battles engaged in were at Chancelorville, Virginia, Antietam, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta campaign, march to the sea with Sherman, through the Carolinas to Washington with Sherman, and many minor engagements and skirmishes. He participated in the Grand Review at Washington in June, 1865. At one time he was taken prisoner while scouting and held for three weeks in Virginia. After war Mr. Frazer returned to his home state and engaged in mercantile business for ten years, then followed farming for three years.
On July 4, 1867, Mr. Frazer was united in matrimony to Miss Eliza J. Newmyer, of Pennsylvania. In March, of 1878, our subject came with his wife and family to Merrick county, Nebraska, where he homesteaded eighty acres in section twenty-six, township fourteen, range seven, seven miles northwest of Central City, which remained the home place until 1908, when Mr. Frazer retired from the farm and moved to Central City and purchased a good home where they now live. Mr. Frazer served in various offices of his school district number twenty-six nearly all through his Nebraska years. Mr. and Mrs. Frazer have had four children: Howard M., lost in the first rush to the Klondike gold fields; Jessie M., wife of C. K. Sinsel has eight children, and lives four miles west of Central City; John N., resides in Basin, Wyoming; and Arthur L., married, has three children, and lives five and a half miles northwest of Central City.
Mr. and Mrs. Frazer are among the early settlers of Merrick county, have passed through all the trying experiences and hardships incident to pioneer life, and are widely and favorably known. They are both members of the Baptist church and Mr. Frazer is a member of Buford Post Grand Army of the Republic of Central City. He is a republican in politics.
from Merrick County, Nebraska Genweb site: Source: "Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska containing a History of the State of Nebraska," Alden Publishing Company, 1912...info on Lutellus Frazer on page 412
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LUTELLUS L. FRAZER.
Lutellus L. Frazer, of Central City, Nebraska, is widely known as an earnest and reliable citizen, and a man who is to be relied upon and trusted.
Mr. Frazer was born in Pennsylvania, May 21, 1836. the son of Alexander and Amy (Long) Frazer, being the eldest of nine children, and is now the only one living. His father died in August, 1871, and the mother in 1891, both in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Frazer received his education in the home schools, and later carried on tailoring. On June 27, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war, receiving his discharge July 17, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Frazer's first term of enlistment expired in December, 1863, and immediately re-enlisted and veteranized in the same company and regiment. Decisive battles engaged in were at Chancelorville, Virginia, Antietam, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta campaign, march to the sea with Sherman, through the Carolinas to Washington with Sherman, and many minor engagements and skirmishes. He participated in the Grand Review at Washington in June, 1865. At one time he was taken prisoner while scouting and held for three weeks in Virginia. After war Mr. Frazer returned to his home state and engaged in mercantile business for ten years, then followed farming for three years.
On July 4, 1867, Mr. Frazer was united in matrimony to Miss Eliza J. Newmyer, of Pennsylvania. In March, of 1878, our subject came with his wife and family to Merrick county, Nebraska, where he homesteaded eighty acres in section twenty-six, township fourteen, range seven, seven miles northwest of Central City, which remained the home place until 1908, when Mr. Frazer retired from the farm and moved to Central City and purchased a good home where they now live. Mr. Frazer served in various offices of his school district number twenty-six nearly all through his Nebraska years. Mr. and Mrs. Frazer have had four children: Howard M., lost in the first rush to the Klondike gold fields; Jessie M., wife of C. K. Sinsel has eight children, and lives four miles west of Central City; John N., resides in Basin, Wyoming; and Arthur L., married, has three children, and lives five and a half miles northwest of Central City.
Mr. and Mrs. Frazer are among the early settlers of Merrick county, have passed through all the trying experiences and hardships incident to pioneer life, and are widely and favorably known. They are both members of the Baptist church and Mr. Frazer is a member of Buford Post Grand Army of the Republic of Central City. He is a republican in politics.
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LUTELLUS L. FRAZER.
Lutellus L. Frazer, of Central City, Nebraska, is widely known as an earnest and reliable citizen, and a man who is to be relied upon and trusted.
Mr. Frazer was born in Pennsylvania, May 21, 1836. the son of Alexander and Amy (Long) Frazer, being the eldest of nine children, and is now the only one living. His father died in August, 1871, and the mother in 1891, both in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Frazer received his education in the home schools, and later carried on tailoring. On June 27, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war, receiving his discharge July 17, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Frazer's first term of enlistment expired in December, 1863, and immediately re-enlisted and veteranized in the same company and regiment. Decisive battles engaged in were at Chancelorville, Virginia, Antietam, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta campaign, march to the sea with Sherman, through the Carolinas to Washington with Sherman, and many minor engagements and skirmishes. He participated in the Grand Review at Washington in June, 1865. At one time he was taken prisoner while scouting and held for three weeks in Virginia. After war Mr. Frazer returned to his home state and engaged in mercantile business for ten years, then followed farming for three years.
On July 4, 1867, Mr. Frazer was united in matrimony to Miss Eliza J. Newmyer, of Pennsylvania. In March, of 1878, our subject came with his wife and family to Merrick county, Nebraska, where he homesteaded eighty acres in section twenty-six, township fourteen, range seven, seven miles northwest of Central City, which remained the home place until 1908, when Mr. Frazer retired from the farm and moved to Central City and purchased a good home where they now live. Mr. Frazer served in various offices of his school district number twenty-six nearly all through his Nebraska years. Mr. and Mrs. Frazer have had four children: Howard M., lost in the first rush to the Klondike gold fields; Jessie M., wife of C. K. Sinsel has eight children, and lives four miles west of Central City; John N., resides in Basin, Wyoming; and Arthur L., married, has three children, and lives five and a half miles northwest of Central City.
Mr. and Mrs. Frazer are among the early settlers of Merrick county, have passed through all the trying experiences and hardships incident to pioneer life, and are widely and favorably known. They are both members of the Baptist church and Mr. Frazer is a member of Buford Post Grand Army of the Republic of Central City. He is a republican in politics.
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