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JONATHAN COLEGROVE, farmer, P. O. Colegrove, was born in Norwich township, McKean Co., Penn., November 22, 1844,
a son of Horace and Emily (Burlingame) Colegrove, both also natives of Norwich township. He was in the Civil war,
enlisting in 1861 in Company F, Fifty seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served three years. He was in the siege
of Yorktown, and was taken prisoner on the peninsula near Savage Station, in 1862, was prisoner two and a half
months on Belle Isle, afterward joined his regiment near Falmouth, Va., was in the Gettysburg fight, and on the
second day was wounded through the neck and windpipe, and also through the left shoulder. He was taken to Baltimore,
Md., to Patterson Park hospital, which hospital was under the charge of Dr. S. D. Freeman. He was not expected
to live, for several days; for twenty two months he never spoke a loud word. He served the rest of the time in
the medical purveyor's department, Baltimore, Md. He was married January 1, 1867, to Miss Hattie P., daughter of
Sheffield and Mary E. (Baldwin) Purple, of Troy, Penn., and they are the parents of two children, viz.: Samuel
(deceased) and Albert L. (living at home). He also has an adopted daughter, Mary P. Mr. Colegrove is a member of
McKean Lodge, No. 128, F. & A. M.; Bradford Chapter, No. 100, and Sir Knights, No. 58.
From:
History of the Counties of
McKean, Elk and Forest,
Pennsylvania
With Biographical Selections.
J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers
Chicago, 1890.
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