Notes
- Served with Company E of the 9th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment. Residence listed as Boscobel. Enlisted on 9/11/1861
- Birthplace listed as Hanover in 1860; Hanover was annexed by Prussia in 1866, which might explain why subsequent censuses list Prussia.
Documents
- 1860 U.S. Census
- Watterstown, Grant, Wisconsin. Likely this is William York. Dora is listed as Arabella, and also her child Charles by her first marriage to Charles Riley
- 1870 U.S. Census
- Marrieta, Crawford, Wisconsin
- 1880 U.S. Census
- Wauzeka, Crawford, Wisconsin
- 1895 Minnesota Census Zion, Stearns County
- William Gerke
Professions
- 1860
- Farmer
- 1870
- Farmer
- 1880
- Huckster
