1st wife: Mary Criser. 2nd wife: Minerva L. Cook. Mexican War vet. 4th Reg. Ohio Inf. Late 1849, wife died soon after they came to Ft. Madison in 1852. Returned to O? and 12-17-1853 m. 2nd, Minerva L. Cook of Ashland, O. in 1854. Came to Ft. Madison. Chr