Jonathan L. Temple

He studied medicine with Dr Stephen W Williams (1790-1855) of Deerfield and Dr Ashmun Taylor (1815-1880) in Heath, MA, then attended and graduated from the Vermont Medical College in Woodstock. He practiced in Belchertown, MA then, after a bout of poor health, had a drug store in Troy, OH to at least 1856.

In 1860 he was a physician living with his brother Erastus and family on their farm at Lamartine in Fond Du Lac County, WI - then at least temporarily without his wife and child. He enlisted on 19 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry.

A new recruit, then 40 years old, he joined his company near Sharpsburg on 16 September 1862 and was killed in action at Antietam the next day. He was buried on the field.

His widow Kate and children were granted a US pension based on his service in November 1862.

He was reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which lists him as J. L. Temple. His service basics from Bryant.2 His arrival at Antietam from a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, notably Levi Daniel Temple in Some Temple Pedigrees. A Genealogy... (1900), and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catharine Eliza Kellogg (1826 Belchertown, MA-1873 Lamartine, WI) in Montgomery, OH in November 1855 and they had 2 children, Edwin (1856-1929) and Mary (1861-1901).

07/31/1822; Heath, MA

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD