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One Of The New York Colonels

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
September
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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Th e M on roe county, N. Y., ir ccmitiittee rrcommend Licutenant Putnck II. O'Rorke as Coionel ot tho One j Hundred md Fortieth. Lientenant O'lï. is tho son (if a poor laborer of RochesiiT. who was kitled by an nccident on the railrnad. The boy evinoed remarkuble matheraatijflj ahility, ond toi.k all tho pri.oH in the schools of tliat ciïy. ]king too poor to gratily hi desïre fui1 an edueation, he entured spon an apprenticeship as a stone cntter; whea Oen. Williams, then n Congrees, necmed him a Cudetship at West J'oint, víjaero he trraduated at the head of his class in 1 Stil , nnd a month nfterwaids had a horso sliot ander him at Uull Bun, Kiiice which time he dist ingubhed himsclf in tho expeditions Hgainst South Carolina. líe isonly 2G yiars of age.

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Old News
Michigan Argus