Howard Simon Lovejoy

In 1853 he was a clerk in Brooklyn, NY but by 1860 he was an 34 year old clerk in Wellington, Lorain County, OH. He helped raise a Company of troops in Lorain County and was commissioned Captain of Company D, 23rd Ohio Infantry on 1 June 1861.

He commanded the Company in Maryland in 1862.

He resigned his commission on 14 February 1863. He served briefly as a Private in Company C of the 176th Ohio Infantry (his brother Joseph was 1st LT/Captain of the Company) in late 1864 but was commissioned Captain of Company A, 186th Ohio Infantry, a one-year unit, on 9 March 1865, and mustered out with them on 18 September 1865.

By 1870 he was a retail merchant in Brick Township, Ocean County, NJ. In 1880 he was the postmaster in Oakdale, Antelope County, Nebraska. He began receiving a invalid veteran's pension in 1877 and it went to his widow in 1900.

His service from the State of Ohio.1 His presence in Maryland, specifically on South Mountain on 14 September, from a letter about Isaac W Barker of his Company (kia), online from Griff on Shared & Spared. Personal details from his pension records, via fold3, family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and Hearnes' Brooklyn City Directory 1852-53, online from the Internet Archives. Thanks to researcher R.C. Durkee for the pointer to Captain Lovejoy.

He married Mary Jane Stewart (1834-) and they had 4 children - 3 sons and a daughter - between 1850 and 1865.

05/29/1826; Hudson, NY

12/30/1899; Philadelphia, PA