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- During the Civil War James D. Mateer served as a private soldier in Company D
78th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; when he enlisted at Harrisburg on 2
February 1865 he was a farmer aged 17 years, 5 feet 3 inches tall, with fair
complexion, light hair and gray eyes. After his discharge on 22 September
1865, he reenlisted at Harrisburg on 24 April 1866 for three years in the
regular army, Company I 22nd U. S. Infantry; his final discharge was given on
24 April 1869 at Fort Rice in Dakota Territory.
After the war James D. Mateer lived in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania for one
year, in Belfonte, Pennsylvania for four years, and in Youngstown, Ohio,
Chicago, Illinois (where he worked as a printer), as well as North Jackson,
Warren, West Austintown and Alliance, Ohio.
His estate comprised a house and lot on Rice Street in Alliance, Ohio, valued
at $2000 with a mortgage of $550, and approximately $200 in personal effects;
this property went to his daughter Mary Mateer, "the only surviving heir."
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Reference:
McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis
McTeer, 1975, p 78, 109.
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