2nd Lt. George Struckman

2nd Lt. George Struckman

B Co. 4th Mo. Cav.

   Enlisted as a private.
   Commissioned Lt. at Pea Ridge.
   Served three years.
        Known Actions;
Pea Ridge, Ark.

       From the Post #49 files
Joined Elgin GAR Veteran's Post #49 Aug. 21, 1908.

       Obit; May 24, 1920 issue The Elgin Daily Courier.
   George Struckman of Bartlett, Cook county commissioner for eleven years and president of the county board for one term, and a former member of the state legislature, died at his home Sunday.  He was 84 years old.
   The deceased, a resident of Hanover township for seventy years, died following an illness of four weeks duration.
   Mr. Struckman was born in Germany and came to Elgin with his parents in 1850, soon after the German rebellion.  He had lived in Hanover township since his arrival in this countyr.
   When the Civil War broke out, he helped organize a company of farmer boys from this vicinity.  The company attempted to unite itself with General John Farnsworth's regiment at St. Charles, but failed.
   Instead the men went to St. Louis and enlisted under General Franz Siegel in the *enton Hussars, later the 4th Missouri cavalry.  At the battle of Pea Ridge, Mr. Struckman received a lieutenant's commission.  His enlistment expired after three years service.
   It was in 1894 that he served as president of the board of commissioners in Cook county.  He also represented the country towns of Cook county in the Illinois legislature for fourteen years.
   Mr. Struckman is survived by two daughters, Amelia and Ida, living at home, and two sons, William F. Struckman of Berwyn, and Emil Struckman of Glaston, Mont.  Mrs. Fred Hagle of Elgin is a sister.
   Miss Marie Struckan, a granddaughter, well known in Elgin, attended the Elgin Academy for several years.  She is the daughter of Attorney Struckman of Berwyn.
   Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the late home in Bartlett and will be in charge of Monitor Lodge, A.F. and A.M., of Elgin, of which he was a member.  Burial in Bartlett.

 

Used with permission Dan Mallett

Many members of Post #49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.