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Charles Buell Metzger

29 Nov 1839 – 27 Sep 1916

Birth29 Nov 1839
Death27 Sep 1916
CemeteryHollenback Cemetery
Wilkes-Barre , Luzerne County , Pennsylvania , USA
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TAPS SOUND FOR C. B. METZGER -------------------------- Prominent Civil War Veteran and Lodge Man Dies at Nanticoke -------------------------- SERVED AS CHIEF ENGINEER OF OLD FIRE DEPARTMENT -------------------------- Charles Buell Metzger, a veteran of the Civil War and a former resident of this city, died yesterday morning at 7 o'clock, of complications, at his home in Nanticoke. Mr. Metzger was born in Lewisburg, Nov. 29 1839, a son of Daniel Metzger and Cynthia Buell Metzger, of Dutch and New England ancestry, having been a direct descendant of John Alden. They came to this city in the early 50's by canal boat from Williamsport and settled in what was then a small village near the outskirts of the town, but the location now would be in the centre of the city, on South street between Franklin and Main. He was a plasterer by trade, serving his apprenticeship with his father. When the southern states seceded from the Union and Fort Sumpter was fired upon, he being orderly sergeant of his company, the Wyoming Artellerists, answered the call of President Lincoln for volunteers. After the three months' enlistments was over he came home and during the invasion of Pennsylvania went out again with the 41st Regt. Militia as first lieutenant of Co. A. and finally in '63 again enlisted in Co. F, 4th New York Heavy Artillery, and served through the remainder of the Civil War. With his regiment he fought in a number of the biggest battles of that terrible four years' struggle and was taken prisoner by the rebels in the battle for the Weldon Railroad before Petersburg and was confied on Belle Isle and Libby Prison. He returned to this city in April, 1865, and with the exception of the last four years had been a resident of Wilkes-Barre. Upon returning to this city he entered the candy business, having a store on Public Square under the firm name of Heaflick & Metzger, soon after buying his partner out and conducting the business for himself for a period of thirty-five years as wholesale confectioner on South Main street. Upon his retirement he assumed a government position at Washington and was located there about ten years, and returned to take a position with the Susquehanna Coal Co. in its supply department at Nanticoke. He was one of the oldest members of Wyoming Lodge of Odd Fellows and served in various positions both in the lodge and encampment. He was a member of Landmark Lodge 422, F. & A. M. and served the lodge as worshipful master in 1887 and 1888, and a Royal Arch Mason, having been a member of Shekinah Chapter 182, R. A. M. He was greatly interested in the Grand Army of the Republic, a member of Conyngham Post No. 97, of which he was a past commander, also serving as a member of the building committee which erected G. A. R. Hall on South Main street, and serving as quartermaster of the post until a few weeks before he died. He was a member o his regimental association, Union Ex-Prisoners of War, and often served as a delegate to the various State and National encampments. He was one of the old volunteer firemen and served as chief engineer of the Wilkes-Barre Fire Department between the terms of the late Judge Woodward and the late T. S. Hillard. In politics he was a lifelong Republican and mentioned a number of times for the position of postmaster of this city. He is survived by his wife, Annie Flack Metzger; a daughter, wife of John F. Eder of Williamsport; two sons, Frank Edward Metzger of Wilkes-Barre and Carl Buell Metzger of Philadelphia. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from his son's residence, 339 South River street. Interment in the family plot at Hollenback Cemetery. (Wilkes-Barre Record, 29 Sep 1916)

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