Jacob Rusk

By age 17 he was a brick maker with his father in Philadelphia, and was in that trade to at least 1860. On 23 January 1862, by then age 28, he enlisted and mustered into service as a Private in Company C, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry in Philadelphia.

He was wounded in the foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was listed as "not accounted for" on the Company muster-out roll.

He returned to brick making in Philadelphia, but became a police officer about 1872. On his death in Philadelphia in August 1902:

August 4 - Jacob Rusk, aged 70 years, at his late residence, 2349 North Thirty-first street. Deceased received an appointment on the police force from former Mayor [William S.] Stokely. He resigned 10 years ago to become a special detective at the Broad street station, where he arrested the noted crooks Alec Ritchard and John Kennedy. He served throughout the civil war, being desperately wounded at the battle of Antietam.

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 The quote above from the Philadelphia Times of 10 August 1902. Personal details from family genealogists and the 1850 - 1880 US Census. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1832; Philadelphia, PA

08/04/1902; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Mount Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA