This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BF8DA9.5A802440 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Nancy, This is what I found in a small Public Library in Syracuse, Indiana. Ray ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BF8DA9.5A802440 Content-Type: text/plain; name="FPAllwein.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="FPAllwein.txt" The Biographical Sketch from the Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana = on page 238 states: FRANKLIN P. ALLWEIN was born in Lebanon County,Penn March 26, 1844. His = parents, Samuel and Elizabeth Allwein, where natives of Penn, and of = German decent. Of a family of nine children, all are living with the = exception of one son Jonathan, who was killed at the battle of the = Wilderness in the late war. The father was a shoemaker by trade, and = himself and wife are living in Lebanon,Pa. Franklin P. remained with his = parents until he was twelve years of age, attending school, and, in 1859 = he learned coach-smithing. In March 1861, he enlisted in Company G, = Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and, after his term expired, he = re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer = Infantry as Forth Sergeant, where he continued until the regiment was = mustered out of service, when he re-enlisted again in Company F, = Forty-Eighth Regiment, and remained with them as First Lieutenant in the = Quartermaster's Department, where he continues until February 1866 when = he was finally discharged. Mr. Allwein saw active service in the battles = of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, besides many raids, skirmishes, = etc. After his discharge he returned to his old home, from the to Ft. = Wayne, and ill health obliging his removal, he came to Whitley County, = where he engaged for two years in saw-milling. He then went to = Larwill,IN. and worked in blacksmithing until the fall of 1880, when he = was elected Sherriff of Whitley County on the Democratic ticket. He is = an honored member of the I.O.O.F. of Larwill Lodge, No 238 and was = married December 6, 1866, to Lydia Atchison. Mrs. Allwein was a member = of the M.E. Church and the mother of six children, three of = whom-Cora,Jennie and Blanche-are still living. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BF8DA9.5A802440--