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Clarence was an athlete of some renown & died in Melbourne, Australia, where his comrades have erected a monument to his memory.
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William enlisted in the Regular Army of the United States on the 13th of August 1879 at Omaha, & his term of service would have expired August 13, 1884. He was one of 500 men who volunteered to go with Lieutenant Greely's expedition to the Arctic regions. Being a young man with remarkable fine form & handsome physique, he ranked highest in medical examination & was the first selected out of 500 volunteers.
The expedition sailed from St. Johns, New Foundland on July 7, 1881. From this point, he wrote a letter to his friends in which he realized the dangers that beset the enterprise. He asked the prayerful consideration of his friends & closed with a "good bye" that now seems sadly prophetic. He was the last of the 17 to die & passed away May 24 at Melville Ball, 1884, age 27 years. His remains were brought to Delphi, Carroll Co., IN, and lay in state in the rotunda of the Court House for several days. The remains were enclosed in a casket make of boiler iron, one-fourth of an inch in thickness, the ends & top firmly belted & hermetically sealed. Those somber surrounds relieved by a profusion of floral emblems in every conceivable shape & many American flags draped over the coffin & suspended from the ceiling and walls of the Court House.
The funeral of William H. Whistler ws an important event in the history of Delphi. Throngs of people passed in & out to catch a glimpse of the coffin that held the remains of the heroic soldier of Carroll co., IN. The procession was too large for the church to contain. Services were held in the grove near the church, several thousand being in attendance. In the background, was black & white muslin & on each & 2 large American flags, in the center a fine portrait of Washington, front an arch made of flags draped in mourning in the center of which hung a large photograph of the entire crew to which young Whistler belonged. Floral was large & very impressive. The bugle was sounded & the military formed in column in the rear of the casket & escorted it to the stand, where it remained during services after which the column marched to the grave, while solemn dirge & muffled drums impressed everyone with a deep sense of sadness, & many an eye was damp with tears for the dead dear boy who suffered privation & death so far from home & friends in a frozen clime.
There was something to be desired in this hale & glory that surrounded him who died while serving his country. The first heart rendering discovery was made sometime after when his friends had the remains exhumed to satisfy themselves that they really were the true remains of William H. Whistler. To their horror, they found that cannibalism had been resorted to by the starving men of the Greely expedition; every portion of flesh had been removed from the body. The remains were easily recognized. The third finger of the right hand had been mashed a few years before & the nail grew down over the end of the finger, presented its unusual appearance & was instantly recognized by his friends.
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Jacob's occupation was farming. He held numerous public offices. On October 6, 1862, he raised Co. D of the 158th Volunteer Infantry, of which he was elected First Lieutenant. He served out his term & was mustered out at Harrisburg, August 12, 1863. He again enlisted in the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry & served until the close of the war, being mustered out at Lynchburg, VA., July 1865. all members of this family were of the Methodist Church.
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III Generation:
Henry moved from Lancaster to Shrewsburg, York County, PA in August 1824. While living there, he held the commission of Justice of the Peace and Captain & Major in the Volunteer Military Service. He was also elected to the State Legislature from York Co. He removed to Baltimore in May 1835. Mr. Snyder became a member of the first branch of the city council of Baltimore, serving from 1838 to March 1845 when he resigned the position. During the last 5 years of that period, he was President, thereof, and Mayor ex-officio. He was City Collector from March 1845 to 1849. He afterwards held the position of Judge of Appeals for Court, United States Mail Agent at Jones Fall, President of the Board of Managers of Bayview Asylum and President of the Howard Bank. He also served 2 terms in the Senate of Maryland & was President of that body during his second term.
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Frederick was a minister of the MD Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. In June 1880, he was admitted as a candidate for Holy Orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church in Diocese of MD. He was taken ill, September 26, 1880, with typhoid pneumonia & entered into rest. Funeral services were held in Trinity Church, Chambersburg, & again in St. Barnabas Church, Baltimore, MD. He is interred in the cemetery lot of Judge J. B. Livingston, Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, PA.