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Whittier, Nathaniel

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 0, credited to Unknown
Unit(s): 2nd MA HARTY
Service: H 2 MA HA

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VITALS

Birth: 07/12/1844, Boston, MA
Death: 06/08/1910

Burial: Elmwood Cemetery, Barre, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 161636020

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 2/20/1907, VT
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)

Remarks: None

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Elmwood Cemetery, Barre, VT

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Obituary

DEATH OF NATHANIEL WHITTIER

Nathaniel Whittier, for many years a bookkeeper for granite firms in t his city and Barre, died yesterday at the State hospital for the insane at Waterbury, where he was recently taken for treatment. Mr. Whittier was a native of Springfield, Mass., and was 66 years old. He served in the Civil War in Company H, 2nd Massachusetts heavy artillery. He was an expert accountant and his services in that capacity were much in demand. Mr. Whittier was twice married, his second wife dying 15 years ago. He leaves five daughters.

Source: Burlington Free Press, June 10, 1910
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.