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. |