Captain John Parker's Company of
Iowa Dragoons Volunteers
Captain John Parker's Company of Iowa
Dragoons Volunteers was mustered into the service of the United States
at Fort Atkinson, Iowa, by Brevet Major Alexander Hooe, of the Regular
Army, September 9, 1846. Its term of service was for twelve
months, unless sooner discharged. The company at once became part
of the garrison at Fort Atkinson, of which it became an important
adjunct, furnishing mounted men for scouting purposes, watching the
movements of the Winnebago Indians, and endeavoring to keep them within
the limits of their reservation. It was subsequently determined by
the War Department, however, that the services of the company could be
dispensed with, and an order was issued to muster out, by Brevet Major
Hooe, at Fort Atkinson, Nov. 5, 1846. The following roster was
transcribed from the muster-out roll of the company, with additional
data from Mr. Reid's early history:
Roster
John Parker. Captain.
Age 45. Residence Dubuque, nativity Kentucky. Was a soldier
in the Black Hawk War. Was Captain in the Iowa Territorial
Militia, organized in 1839. Died at Dubuque, Iowa, in April, 1885.
David Olmsted. First
Lieutenant. Age 24. Residence Monona, Clayton County, Iowa,
nativity Vermont. After his discharge he removed to Minnesota.
He was the first Mayor of the City of St. Paul (1854), and held other
important offices. Olmsted County, Minn., was named in his honor,
in 1855. He returned to Vermont in 1857, and died at Fairfax---his
native place---Feb. 2, 1861.
Thomas B. Twiford. Second
Lieutenant. Age 36. Was Clerk of the Courts in Allamakee
County, Iowa, in 1850. Founded the town of Chatfield, Minn., in
1853.
Elias H. Williams. First
Sergeant. Age 27. Nativity Vermont. Graduate of Yale
College. Removed to Clayton County, Iowa, in 1846. He was
County Judge of Clayton County, and, in 1858, was elected Judge of the
Tenth Judicial District, serving in that position until 1866. In
January, 1890, he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa, but
resigned in September of the same year. He died Aug. 20, 1891.
Alexander D. Anderson.
Second Sergeant. Age 31. No personal record obtained.
William C. Linton. Third
Sergeant. Age 30. No personal record obtained.
Josiah Howard. Fourth
Sergeant. Age 21. No personal record obtained.
Loren Jones. First Corporal.
Age 29. No personal record obtained.
Jacob Springer. Second
Corporal. Age 31. No personal record obtained.
Albert W. Kimball. Third
Corporal. Age 24. Born in Michigan, and came to Iowa in
1845. No further record obtained.
John S. Lewis. Fourth
Corporal. Age 28. No personal record obtained.
Morrison Wheeler. Bugler.
Age 31. No personal record obtained.
Edward C. Forbes. Bugler.
Age 30. No personal record obtained.
John A. Tully. Farrier.
Age 34. No personal record obtained.
David B. Anderson. Private.
Age 25. No personal record obtained. The muster-out roll of
the company shows that all the privates were enrolled at Garnavillo,
Iowa Territory, by First Lieutenant Olmsted.
Thomas Armstrong. Private.
Age 23. No personal record obtained.
William P. Arole. Private.
Age 21. No personal record obtained.
Benjamin Blasdell. Private.
Age 43. No personal record obtained.
Kintzing Burkhead. Private.
Age 26. No personal record obtained.
Daniel Burman. Private.
Age 19. No personal record obtained.
Jack Monteville Cain.
Private. Age 21. No personal record obtained.
Patrick Cain. Private.
Age 24. No personal record obtained.
Daniel Carlin. Private.
Age 24. No personal record obtained.
James Carlin. Private.
Age 23. No personal record obtained.
Henry Case. Private.
Age 40. No personal record obtained.
Andrew J. Cooley. Private.
Age 19. No personal record obtained.
Samuel Cox. Private.
Age 38. No personal record obtained.
James Daniels. Private.
Age 18. No personal record obtained.
Alexander Falconer. Private.
Age 38. Re-enlisted July 15, 1847, in Captain J. M. Morgan's
Company of Mounted Volunteers.
John J. Ficklin. Private.
Age 21. No personal record obtained.
William Franklin. Private.
Age 22. No personal record obtained.
Constantine Gallager.
Private. Age 33. No personal record obtained.
John Gardner. Private.
Age 31. No personal record obtained.
Harvey Green. Private.
Age 32. No personal record obtained.
George T. Griffith. Private.
Age 39. No personal record obtained.
Marshall Hatfield. Private.
Age 26. Born in Clinton, N. Y., in 1820. Residence, at date
of enlistment, McGregor, Iowa. Served in War of the Rebellion in
Company E, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, in which he enlisted Feb. 14, 1864, and
from which he was honorably discharged Aug. 11, 1865. Died at Iowa
State Soldiers' Home, Marshalltown, Iowa, in the fall of 1907.
George Humpheries. Private.
Age 35. Re-enlisted July 15, 1847, at Fort Atkinson, in Captain J.
M. Morgan's Company of Mounted Volunteers.
Ezra Hurd. Private.
Age 28. Nativity New York. Removed to Galena, Ill., and from
there, in 1846, to Clayton County, Iowa. Died at Storm Lake, Iowa,
April 22, 1909.
William Irvin. Private.
Age 36. No personal record obtained.
Lemuel Johnson. Private.
Age 28. No personal record obtained.
Ezekiel Jones. Private.
Age 27. No personal record obtained.
Moses K. Kellogg. Private.
Age 28. No personal record obtained.
Elias J. Kennedy. Private.
Age 26. Re-enlisted Jan. 1, 1848, in Captain J. M. Morgan's
Company of Mounted Volunteers, Fort Atkinson, Iowa.
Jesse Lowe. Private.
Age 20. Re-enlisted July 15, 1847, in Captain Morgan's Company of
Mounted Volunteers.
Peter M. Lown. Age 28.
Nativity New York. Residence, at time of enlistment, National,
Clayton County, Iowa. Subsequently became an extensive farmer.
Removed to Vermillion, South Dakota, in 1890, and died there May 31,
1898.
Abraham Maracle. Private.
Age 21. No personal record obtained.
William H. Montgomery.
Private. Age 28. No personal record obtained.
William Murphy.
Private. Age 27. No person record obtained.
Edward E. Oliver. Age 21.
No personal record obtained.
John Overrand. Private.
Age 28. No personal record obtained.
William H. Pearson. Private.
Age 19. No personal record obtained.
John Putnam. Private.
Age 30. No personal record obtained.
John Ransdall. Private.
Age 26. No personal record obtained.
Robert Reed. Private.
Age 23. No personal record obtained.
Patrick Reilly. Private.
Age 30. No personal record obtained.
Valorous B. Rexford. Age 32.
No personal record obtained.
Robert Ross. Private.
Age 27. No personal record obtained.
John Row. Private. Age
26. No personal record obtained.
James G. Royse. Private.
Age 18. No personal record obtained.
Solomon Royse. Private.
Age 43. No personal record obtained.
Anson Rudsdell. Private.
Age 31. No personal record obtained.
William S. Scott. Private.
Age 21. Residence, at enlistment, Farmersburg, Clayton County,
Iowa. Nativity Vermont. Died at Willoughby, Ohio, April 3,
1895.
Henry Smith. Private.
Age 26. No person record obtained.
John Smith. Private.
Age 24. No personal record obtained.
Leason Smith. Private.
Age 28. No personal record obtained.
Samuel Smith. Private.
Age 25. No personal record obtained.
Albert Springer. Private.
Age 26. No personal record obtained.
Samuel W. Stewart. Private
Age 24. No personal record obtained.
John Thornton. Private.
Age 21. No personal record obtained.
Robert Torrance. Age 21.
No personal record obtained.
Horatio Walker. Private.
Age 24. No personal record obtained.
John William Walker. Private
21. No personal record obtained.
Thomas B. Walker. Private.
Age 31. Nativity Illinois. Residence, at enlistment, Hardin,
Clayton County, Iowa. He enlisted in Company L, Sixth Iowa
Cavalry, Sept. 15, 1862; was discharged for disability Aug. 9,
1864, at Fort Randall, Dakota. He had two sons in the War of the
Rebellion, one of whom died in rebel prison, and the other died after
exchange before reaching home.
Anderson G. Weeks. Private.
Age 18. No personal record obtained.
Dudley R. W. Williams.
Private. Age 21. Nativity Vermont. He subsequently
became largely engaged in promoting railroad enterprises. He was
living in London, England, in 1909, and was probably the last survivor
of the company.
Charles Wiltsie. Private.
Age 20. No personal record obtained.
Leonard Wiltsie. Private.
Age 25. No personal record obtained.
Uriah Wiltsie. Private.
Age 23. No personal record obtained.
Appended to the foregoing roster is the
certificate of the Mustering Officer, which reads as follows:
"I certify on honor, that I have, at Fort
Atkinson, on this Fifth day of November, 1846, carefully examined this
Roll, and, as far as practicable, caused the allowances, stoppages, and
remarks to be justly and properly stated; and mustered the company
for discharge; and it is hereby honorably discharged from the
service of the United States.
(Signed) A. S. Hooe,
Brevet Major, U. S. A.,
Mustering Officer."
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