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BIOGRAPHIES Source:
History of Macon Co., Illinois
With Illustrations
Descriptive of Its Scenery
and
Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
Published by
Brink, McDonough & Co.,
Philadelphia
Corresponding Office, Edwardsville, ILL
1880
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ROBERT P. LYTLE.
Robert P. Lytle was born at Waterford, Erie
county, Pennsylvania, on the eighth of July, 1837. His
education he obtained in the common schools of his native
town, and in the Waterford Academy. At eighteen he
secured employment in the office of the Sharon Iron Company
in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and left this position in
the fall of 1857, to attend a commercial college at Buffalo,
New York. In the spring of 1858 he came to New Boston,
Mercer county, in this state, and was residing there at the
beginning of the rebellion. He volunteered under the
first call of the President for troops, but his company was
too late for acceptance. In August, 1861, he was
mustered into the service as second lieutenant of company G,
Twenty-seventh regiment, Illinois infantry. For
gallantry at the battle of Belmont in November, 1861, he was
promoted to be first lieutenant of company B. He was
commisioned as captain in December, 1862. At
the battle of Mission Ridge in November, 1863, he was twice
severely wounded, and at Kenesaw Mountain in June, 1864, he
received a musket shot in the left elbow joint, which made
necessary the amputation of his arm just below the shoulder.
After the war he settled at Decatur. For six years and
a half he was book-keeper and cashier for the firm of
William Linter & Co., and then assisted in the
organization of the Decatur Coffin Company. In
January, 1875, President Grant appointed him
postmaster at Decatur, the duties of which office he has
since discharged with great efficiency. He was married
in 1864 to Elizabeth Smith of Waterford,
Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Presbyterian
Church, and in politics connected with the Republican party.
Source: History of Macon County, Illinois,
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