Waldo Fogg
Waldo Fogg was born on September 14, 1830, in Ohio to Thomas and Mary Fogg. His father was a farmer and veteran of the War of 1812 who owned $2,000 of real estate and $500 of personal property by 1860. He grew up and attended school in Salem, Ohio, and by 1850, he was working as a farmer.
 
He supported the Union Party during the Civil War, and he attended a local Union Convention in September 1862. He enlisted in the Union army in May 1864, and he mustered in as a private in Company H of the 140th Ohio Infantry. He mustered out on September 3, 1864.
 
He never married, and he worked as a farmer in Salem. He and his father ran the Salem Center Nursery, offering an “annual supply of Apple Trees.” His father died in 1876, and by 1880, his mother and sisters were living in his household. He died of old age in Meigs County, Ohio, on June 25, 1913.
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(4888)Fogg, Waldo1830-09-141913-06-25
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Private
  • Rank highest: Private
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 1

  • (13729) [recipient] ~ Charles B. Robinson to Waldo Fogg, 18 April 1895

People - Records: 2

  • (4888) Fogg, Waldo is the [child of] (4884) Fogg, Thomas P.
  • (4883) Fogg, Clarkson F. is the [sibling of] (4888) Fogg, Waldo

Places - Records: 2

  • (274) [birth] ~ Ohio
  • (3458) [death] ~ Meigs County, Ohio

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (1215) [enlisted] [H] ~ 140th Ohio Infantry
SOURCES

1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, and 1910 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; 1890 Veterans Census, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Ohio Death Records, 1908-1932, available from Ancestry.com; Ohio Soldiers Grave Registration Cards, 1804-1958, available from Fold3.com; Pomeroy (OH) Weekly Telegraph, 8 November 1861 and 19 September 1862