Melvin A. Luther

Melvin A. Luther was born in Tompkins County, N.Y., October 17, 1841. Settled in Hart, February, 1866, on Section 16, where he now lives. Enlisted April, 1861, in the Twenty-third New York Volunteers; served two years; wounded at Smith's Mountain, Md. Married, August 5, 1866, Ida I. Corbin, who was born in Tompkins County, N.Y., August 5, 1849. Three children - Ernest L., Fred. A. and Martin E.