BIO:  Henry Gable, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Codorus Township, Pg 93

HENRY GABLE, son of Henry and Annie (Gertrude) Gable, was born June 17, 1839, in 
North Codorus Township, and was brought up on a farm.  January 23, 1864, he 
enlisted in York, Penn., in Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Regiment 
Pennsylvania Volunteers.  He was wounded in left thigh and leg, in the discharge 
of his duty at Weldon Railroad, Virginia, June 18, 1864, and was taken to 
Division Hospital, and thence to City Point Hospital, Virginia.  June 30 he left 
there for Findley Hospital, Washington, D. C.  Our subject’s sister came to 
Washington and secured his transfer to the hospital at York, Penn.  On July 25, 
1865, he was again transferred to the Citizens’ Hospital, Philadelphia; July 26 
to the Chestnut Hill Hospital; he left Chestnut Hill Hospital October 17, 1865, 
for the Christian Street Hospital, where a piece of bone came out of his leg, 
December 10, 1866, and a second piece of bone came out on September 3, 1872.  Mr. 
Gable is a well known and respected citizen of Codorus Township.