Detrick, Amos M.

"AMOS M. DETRICK, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Gettysburg, was born in Heidlersburg, this county, November 20, 1839, a son of David and Elizabeth (Houck) Detrick, natives of Pennsylvania, latter of whom was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1801, and died November, 1885. His father was born in this county in 1806, and still survives; he is of German descent; was in early life a carpenter, but later a farmer and merchant. His family consisted of four children. Amos M. was reared on the farm and has always followed agricultural pursuits. He has passed his life in the county, except some years after the war which he spent in Maryland. In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty- eight Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in Company B, and was in the following battles: Brandy Station, Locust Grove, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Monocacy, Opequon, Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Creek, Petersburg, Sailor’s Creek; also following skirmishes: Wapping Heights, Kelly’s Ford, Talopotomay, Bermuda Hundred, Snicker’s Gap, Charlestown, Smithfield, New Market. The distance he traveled was, by rail, 825 miles; by water, 625 wiles; distance marched, 1,975 miles; total, 3,425 miles. He served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged, and has since followed farming. June 9, 1861, Mr. Detrick married Lydia A., daughter of Jonathan C. Forest, who lived to be ninety-two years old, and was never sick a day in his life, except the two weeks before his death. Mrs. Detrick is of German origin, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Detrick is a member of the G. A. R., and commander of Corp. Skelly Post No. 9. He is a Republican in politics. "