Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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PETER HAUGER

Peter HAUGER, was born in Somerset County, Pa., and moved to Westmoreland County. When eighteen years of age he went to learn the carpenter's trade, and when he became of age he came to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, near which city he worked on a farm one year.

In 1861, he enlisted in the Union army. He enlisted April 15, for a term of three months and was in the following engagements: Wilson's Creek, where gallant Gen.. Lyons was in command of the Union forces and Gen. Price of the rebel force. Our subject was taken a prisoner of war at this place and held three months and finally released by Gen. Franz Sigel sending a flag of truce with ambulance wagons through the lines. Mr. HAUGER returned to Cedar Rapids in October, 1861 and in the spring of 1862 caught the war fever again, and in July he enlisted as a member of Company A. Twentieth Iowa Infantry, for the term of three years. He served in the following departments: he was in several battles in Missouri, including Prairie Grove, December 7,1862. In the spring of 1863 he was taken down the Mississippi to Vicksburg and after its surrender to New Orleans and across the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Rio Grand River, where a heavy engagement ensued, having to fight their way up that stream to Brownville, where they made a stand in Ft. Brown and the Union forces drove them out finally. Our subject's company was then sent to Mustang Island, Tex. This was in November, 1863 and they remained there until the spring of 1864, guarding the works at Corpus Christi. We next find that they were in New Orleans, in August, 1874 and from there to Mobile Bay and aided in taking Ft. Morgan. Mr. HAUGER then took a furlough of sixty days and returned to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, returning to his regiment at the end of that time, finding them at Duvall's Bluffs, Ark. In the early spring of 1865 they went to New Orleans and from that point to Florida and then marched to the rear of Mobile and were at the taking of Ft. Blakesley. They were soon ordered to Mobile and there received the news of the close of the war; also of the assassination of President Lincoln, which was April 14, 1865. They remained there until June, 1866, when they returned to Clinton, Iowa, and were finally discharged, returning to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Mr. HAUGER then visited in Pennsylvania, returning in the spring of 1866 to Linn County, Iowa, and followed carpentering one year. In the spring of 1867, he went to Leavenworth, Kan., where he worked at his trade three months and then went to New Mexico and Colorado. He then went to Wyoming Territory, remaining one year, returning to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but soon went back to Wyoming Territory, and there remained three years, coming back in 1871. In March of that year he was married to Miss Mary LICKTEBARGER, and by their union six children were born; Harry, Franklin, Richard, Bertha, Mabel and Emma.

Mary HAUGER, wife of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania and died in Harrison County, Iowa, in June 1886, aged thirty-nine years. Mr. HAUGER married for his second wife, September 1, 1887, Mrs. Pauline STRODE. Mrs. HAUGER is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Politically, our subject is a Republican, and belongs to BOYD Post No. 397, G. A. R. at Modale.

In conclusion it should be stated that Mr. HAUGER is the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (SHAWLY) HAUGER, both natives of Pennsylvania. He came to Harrison County in the spring of 1881, and now resides on section 23, of Clay Township.

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