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Henry S. Dutter – Died at Railroad Watch Post, 1904
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on November 26, 2018
Henry S. “Harry” Dutter, Civil War veteran died in February 1904 in Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and is buried at the Mount Annville Cemetery, Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. As he was well known throughout the region, the notice of his death appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 18 February 1904:
Railway Veteran Dies at Post
POTTSVILLE, Pennsylvania, 17 February [1904] – With but two months to serve until his retirement, Henry Dutter, aged 69, for many years an employee of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, died suddenly in his watch-box at Tremont this afternoon. He was a former passenger and freight agent at that place.
Another newspaper, the Reading Times, 19 February 1904, also reported his death:
Henry Dutter, 69 years old, a veteran employee of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, dropped dead in a watch box at Tremont Wednesday afternoon.
With but two months to serve until his retirement, Henry Dutter, aged 69 years, for many years an employee of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, died suddenly in his watch box at Tremont. He was a former passenger and freight agent at that place.
And also, the Mt. Carmel Item, 18 February 1904:
Dead at His Post
Harry Dutter, a watchman for the Reading Railway at Tremont, was found dead in his watch-box shortly after noon yesterday. Not coming home for dinner at the usual time his wife sought him and found him on his chair, apparently asleep. He was 69 years old.
On 13 August 1862, Henry S. Dutter was mustered into Civil War service at Harrisburg in the 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company E, as a Private, as shown on the Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card (above), from the Pennsylvania Archives. He was 28 years old at the time and was probably living in Lebanon, which is where he enrolled. He served honorably and was mustered out with his company on 29 May 1863.
After the war, Henry Dutter moved to Tremont where he was employed by the railroad.
According to the Pension Index Card from Fold3 (above), Henry applied for an invalid pension on 24 March 1897, which he received and collected until his death – after which his widow, the former Susanna Doyle, applied and received until her death.
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