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James Harper Family
Honored Military Service

 


Time Period

Name

 Birth Year
Service Dates
Area of War or Duty Station
Unit
Source(s)
Colonial
          
  John Harper, Sr. 1705 1722-1725
Dummers War
 John Gyles Co. Ft. George, Province of Maine Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers 1723-1743
Dummer's War to the War of Jenkins' Ear
Service Record in Microfilm Collection of Family Historian, Richard C Harper
  James Harper 1722 1745-1748
Expedition into frontier (Indian Wars)

Capt. Ebenezer Grant's Company, East Windsor, CT

 Papers collected by Family Historian, Richard C Harper
  John Harper 1734 1755-1764 French and Indian War 2nd Btn. Albany Co. Militia State Historian of NY, Pub. 1897
  Joseph Harper 1726/7 1759 French and Indian War Nineth Company—Capt. David Parsons. Enlisted April 16, 1759 Colonial Records and Connecticut Historical Society Vol. X, 1905
18th C. United States
            
  John Harper 1734 1775-1783
Revolutionary War 
 Committee of Safety Tryon County, Committee of Sequestration, 2nd Regt. , 5th Regt. Levies, Middle Fort, Schoharie, NY

Tryon County Manuscript Collection, New York State Historical Society
Miscellaneous Manuscript Collections held by NYPublic Library, State Library in Albany
Records held at Old Stone Fort, Schoharie, NY
  Alexander Harper 1744 1775-1783
Revolutionary War 
 Committee of Sequestration, 5th Ranger Regt., Harpersfield Beat, Schoharie, NY Tryon County Manuscript Collection, New York State Historical Society
Miscellaneous Manuscript Collections held by NYPublic Library, State Library in Albany
Records held at Old Stone Fort, Schoharie, NY
  William Harper 1729 1775-1783
Revolutionary War 
 Committee of Safety Tryon County, 1st Congress of New York, Committee of Sequestration Tryon County Manuscript Collection, New York State Historical Society
Miscellaneous Manuscript Collections held by NYPublic Library, State Library in Albany
Records held at Old Stone Fort, Schoharie, NY
 
 Joseph Harper
1742
 1775-1783
Revolutionary War 
 5th Regt. Levies, Middle Fort, Schoharie, NY Tryon County Manuscript Collection, New York State Historical Society
Miscellaneous Manuscript Collections held by NYPublic Library, State Library in Albany
Records held at Old Stone Fort, Schoharie, NY
  Joseph Harper
1726
 1775-1783
Revolutionary War 
 Lexington Alarm, Minuteman from Windsor, CT. Copies of Windsor papers held by Family Historian, Richard C Harper
             
             
             
             
1800-1860
            
  James A. Harper 1776 1804-1820

Elected Captain in 1804 at the creation of a Militia in the Western Reserve

War of 1812

4th Division Ohio Militia.


 

 1804 Military Election and Remonstrance
Microfilm at WRHS
ROSTER OF OHIO SOLDIERS IN WAR OF 1812,
Alexander Harper Papers, WRHS collection
  Robert A. Harper 1791 1812-30
War of 1812 
 2nd Brigade, 4th Division Ohio Militia.
Major of 2nd Brigade in 1819
ROSTER OF OHIO SOLDIERS IN WAR OF 1812,
Alexander Harper Papers, WRHS collection
  Alexander A. Harper 1788 1812-13
War of 1812 
 3rd Regt., 2nd Brigade, 4th Division Ohio Militia. Capt John R. Reed's Company. ROSTER OF OHIO SOLDIERS IN WAR OF 1812,
Alexander Harper Papers, WRHS collection
  William A. Harper 1779 1812-1813
War of 1812 
 3rd Regt., 2nd Brigade, 4th Division Ohio Militia. Capt John R. Reed's Company ROSTER OF OHIO SOLDIERS IN WAR OF 1812,
Alexander Harper Papers, WRHS collection
  Archibald Harper, Jr. 1792 1812
War of 1812
 3rd Regt., 2nd Brigade, 4th Division Ohio Militia. Capt Jacob Bartholomew's Company Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812
  William Harper 1795 1812
War of 1812
 3rd Regt., 2nd Brigade, 4th Division Ohio Militia. Capt John R. Reed's Company. Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812
  John Harper Montgomery 1793 1812 War of 1812 3rd Regt., 2nd Brigade, 4th Division Ohio Militia. Capt John R. Reed's Company. Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812
             
       
Mexican American War
    
 
            
1861-1865 
            
  William W. Harper 1844 1862-1865
Civil War
 19th Ohio Battery, 2nd Division, 22nd Army Corp Civil War Letters, Transcribed kindly by Helen Ries, from Harper Family Papers Manuscript Collection, WRHS, Roll 12
Ohio in the Civil War:
19th Battery Ohio Volunteers www.ohiocivilwar.com/acw19.html
  Lewis Harper  Abt. 1842  1862-1865
Civil War
 29th Regt, Co. E, O.V.I
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Corps		 Civil War Letters, Transcribed kindly by Helen Ries, from Harper Family Papers Manuscript Collection, WRHS, Roll 12
29th Ohio Infantry- www.ohiocivilwar.com/cw29.html
  Alexander J. Harper 1829 1862-1865
Civil War
 2nd Regt., Ohio Volunteer Cavalry,
Company F&S		 Harper Family Papers, Manuscript Collection, WRHS
  Alexander Harper 1828 1862-1865
Civil War
 2nd Regt., Ohio Volunteer Cavalry,
Company K		 Roster of 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
  Elijah H Norton 1843 1862
Civil War
 Company E, 84th Regiment, Ohio Infantry Family
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm
Dyer's Compendium
Roster of 84th OVI
  John A Norton 1846 1864
Civil War
 Company C (Marked EF in online Database), 150th Regiment, Ohio Family
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm
Dyer's Compendium
Roster of 150th OVI
  John Harper 1833 1864-65
Civil War
 Co. G. 13th Wisconsin Infantry A Geneological Record of the Descendants of Stephen and Amanda (Locke) Randall and Montgomer y and Angelina (Alger) Harper William H. Randall
  Harper Austin 1842 1864-1865
Civil War
 Served with Surgeon in HQ, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps. Letters from Harper to his mother Ann Austin while serving in Folder 185, Container 6, Alexander Harper Family Papers, WRHS
Letters to Harper while serving in Folder 236, Container 8, Alexander Harper Family Papers, WRHS
  Eliphalet Follett 1828 1862-1865
Civil War
 Company H, 38th Regiment, Iowa Infantry http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm
Notes from Richard Dreiling
Handwritten notes from Nettie Pearl Follett
  Thomas M. Follett 1832 1862-1865
Civil War
 Company H, 38th Regiment, Iowa Infantry http://wwww.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm
Notes from Richard Dreiling
Handwritten notes from Nettie Pearl Follett
  Solon S. Wheeler 1835 1861-1865
Civil War
 Co. "D", 4th Wisconsin Cavalry Copies of Civil War Records
             
1866-1900            
       
Spanish American War
    
             
1901-1940            
  Clarence E. Harper 1895  1918
World War I
 Aero Squadron, died in Great Flu epidemic on Oct 14, 1918 Local official casualty list from the Great War published in:
" The Jefferson Gazette"
Thursday, May 19, 1921
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohashtab/war/wwi/OfficialCasualtyList.html
  William Wallace Harper

1880

 1917-1919 World War I 47th Battalion, Reg. 827216 In
France for Canadian Over-Seas
Expeditionary Force		 Library & Archives of Canada
On Willilam Wallace's Discharge Certificate there were two stamps that read:
1) "War Service Badge Class A No. 304335 issued"
2) "War Service Badge Class B No. 66o426 (No.?) issued"
  Antonio Hector Harper
(Tony)		 1903

1920 -
1921

   United States Navy
- Prison Guard		 Navy Discharge Certificate #367-1-08, and Probate Affidavit of Elegia Emilia Encisco Delgado, de Harper, Widow of Antonio Hector Harper (Tony) He died 7-25-71. Doc., on file on this web site.
             
1941-1953            
  Edward H. Harper 1918 1942-1945
World War II
 Africa and Italy Father of Submitter
  Thomas C. Harper 1916 1941-1946
World War II
 US Navy, civilian worker as inventor in aviation deicer division of B. F. Goodrich Family papers held by son
  William W. Harper 1923 1942-1946
World War II
European, North African theaters
4th Cavalry, ASTP, 13th Armored Division Honorable Discharge Report
  Francis G. Mead 1924 1943-1946 World War II
European theater		 60th Field Artillery (105mm Howtzer), 9th Infantry Division

Family history
Enlistment Record
2 Photos

  Jack F. Culley 1919 1941-1945

World War II
US training bases

Army Air Corps US Army Enlistment Records
Family history

Robert S. Phillips 1919 1945-1946 Korea Army Military Police Entered service 17 Feb 1945 at Fort Lewis, WA and was discharged from active service on 8 August 1946 at Ft. Lewis, WA.
S/N 39484422
  Horace Edwin Cowles 1927 1944-1946 Atlantic Merchant Marines Italy and the Caribbean
  Robert C Harper 1919 1942-1951 Italy
50 Missions
POW 77 days

376th Bomb Group (H)
512th Sqdn
Army Air Corp

 DD214 and Reserve records.
O-808993
  James Tappan 1907 1943-1946 Naval Base Guam Guam/Pacific Submitted by Thomas E Tappan
  Lawrence L. Doyle 1922 1942-1946 Asian Pacific Theater 955 Topographic Co., 6th Photo Tech Squadron (Reserve and Active intermittently 1952 - 1976 , Served stateside during Korea and Vietnam.

L Christine Doyle, surviving spouse
service records on hand.
  Marian B. Law 1918 1944-1945 Menlo Park Veterans Hospital, CA WAC Medical Corp Family papers and photos - Submitted by David D. Law
Great great grand daughter of Mary Harper (Wheeler) Hand. Honorable discharge in grade T5.
             
       
Korean War
    
             
             
1954-1962            
  David F. Robinson 1935 1958-1961
Ft. Devens, Ayer, MA
 Army Security Agency DD214 of self
  Mario O. Harper 1937 1956-57
Germany
 13th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division Submitted by Mario O. Harper
  Robert R. Furry 1936 1958-1960
Korea
 3rd Medium Tank Battalion, 40th Armor, 1st Cavalry Division Submitted by Robert R. Furry
1956-1974      
Vietnam War
    
  David D. Law 1937 1956-1976
Okinawa, Thailand, NM, MD, Okinawa, Korea, Germany, TX, Korea, TX, Germany
 Air Defense, Military Police and Ordinance DD214 of self
Descendant of Elizabeth Harper and Aaron Wheeler. Served 8 years in the USAF followed by 12 years US Army. Retired Master Sergeant.
  Richard C Harper 1943 1965-1971
Greensburg, Ohio
 107th Armored Cav Recon, Ohio National Guard DD214 of Self
  Barry L. Harper 1950 1969-1973 Germany/ Spangdahlem AFB
San antonio Texas, Lackland AFB		 Air Force
36th Combat Support Group		 Submitted by Barry L. Harper
  Richard J. Montgomery 1946 1968-1970 Vietnam War 1st Infantry Division Submitted by William J. Montgomery
  William J. Montgomery 1948 1969-1971 Korea 2nd Battalion, 72nd Armored Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division Submitted by William J. Montgomery
  Thomas E Tappan 1943 1967-1978 Vietnam / Pacific USS Hitchiti - ATF 103, USS Hassayampa - AO143, USS ROgers DD876, HCU 1

Submitted by Thomas E Tappan

Surface Warfare Officer, Salvage and Diving Officer, Helium Officer
Vietnam Service with two stars - 4 deployments
Destroyer School 1972 - CLass 38

  Fredrick P Howe 1946 1969 - 1971 Korea Army Military Intelligence Thomas E Tappan
  Paul J. Harper, M.D. 1942 1964-1997 Vietnam and Gulf War 1 Air Force - SAC Surgeon in the USAF during Vietnam War and Gulf War 1. Originally a flight surgeon during Vietnam. Developed laser surgery capabilities via satelite during Gulf War 1.
             
1975-1989 David W. Law 1961 1983-1995 Kuwait, UAE
WA, Korea, CA, Guam, WA		 Air Force DD214 - Submitted by David D. Law
In the weather service for his entire career, decorated for service, retired Master Sergeant. Served on space shuttle teams, in combat operations centers and in air wing service operations.
             
1990-2001      
Gulf War
    
  Thomas R. Harper 1976 1995-2003

Korea

Kosovo

 

—2nd Infantry Division

—3rd Btn.,504th Parachute Infantry Regt, 82nd Airborne Division

 DD214 of self
  Scott W. Montgomery 1973 1992-1995 Fort Irwin, CA Hospital Group U.S. Army Reserves and U.S. Army Records and Orders, combined.
Submitted by: William J Montgomery
2001-Todate            
       
War on Terror
    
       
Afghanistan & Iraq
    
             
Last Updated 3/12/10

 

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