BIO:  Amos M. DETRICK, Straban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 507

AMOS M. DETRICK, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Gettysburg, was born in 
Heidlersburg, this county, November 20, 1839, a son of David and Elizabeth 
(Houck) Detrick, natives of Pennsylvania, latter of whom was born in Lancaster 
County, Penn., in 1801, and died November, 1885.  His father was born in this 
county in 1806, and still survives; he is of German descent; was in early life a 
carpenter, but later a farmer and merchant.  His family consisted of four 
children.  Amos M. was reared on the farm and has always followed agricultural 
pursuits.  He has passed his life in the county, except some years after the war 
which he spent in Maryland.  In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-
eight Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in Company B, and was in the following 
battles:  Brandy Station, Locust Grove, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, 
Monocacy, Opequon, Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Creek, Petersburg, Sailor’s Creek; also 
following skirmishes:  Wapping Heights, Kelly’s Ford, Talopotomay, Bermuda 
Hundred, Snicker’s Gap, Charlestown, Smithfield, New Market.  The distance he 
traveled was, by rail, 825 miles; by water, 625 wiles; distance marched, 1,975 
miles; total, 3,425 miles.  He served until the close of the war, when he was 
honorably discharged, and has since followed farming.  June 9, 1861, Mr. Detrick 
married Lydia A., daughter of Jonathan C. Forest, who lived to be ninety-two 
years old, and was never sick a day in his life, except the two weeks before his 
death.  Mrs. Detrick is of German origin, and a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.  Mr. Detrick is a member of the G. A. R., and commander of 
Corp. Skelly Post No. 9.  He is a Republican in politics.