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- JOHN C. VEIT, farmer, P. O. Erie, was born in Germany March 8, 1838, and is a son of John M. and Margaret (Knodle) Veit, who settled in McKean Township in 1840. He was married, Nov. 19, 1865, to Helen, daughter of Nathan Stafford, who settled in what is now Summit Township in 1823. The issue of this marriage was 3 children -- Della, Travers and Roy. The Staffords were among the early settlers of McKean and Summit Townships; they were enterprising citizens, and did much to improve the county in its early settlement. Nathan had 6 children -- George W., Montgomery, Nancy, Mary J., Helen and Alice. He died in Summit in 1881, at the age of seventy-five. John C. Veit, our subject, was in the late war, enlisting Aug. 11, 1862; was in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and the campaign of the Wilderness and Petersburg. At the latter he was taken prisoner, and confined in Andersonville and Florence Prisons 9 months. He was then exchanged, and rejoined his regiment near Washington, D. C., and was honorably discharged in June, 1865.
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1838 - 1922 (84 years)
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