Two brothers left their homes in Pennsylvania in August 1861 to muster in for military service during the American Civil War. Both returned safely to the arms of their families, one in 1862 and the second in 1864. To learn more about the early lives and Civil War military experiences of Augustus and Frederick Eagle, read part one of their biography. Part two, which begins below, continues their respective stories after returning home from that war.

Return to Civilian Life—Frederick M. Eagle

Following his honorable discharge from the military in mid-March 1862 on a surgeon’s certificate of disability, Fred Eagle returned home to Catasauqua, Pennsylvania. In 1865, he and his wife, Hannah, welcomed the arrival of daughters, Emma A. Eagle (1865-1931), who was born in Catasauqua, Lehigh County; and Clara (1867-1867), who was born in Lehigh County in 1867, and died there that same year. His wife, Hannah, also died in 1867, which makes it likely that both mother and child died from complications related to child birth.

Sometime later in 1867 or early 1868, Fred Eagle then remarried, taking as his second wife, Christiana Weaver (1844-1930), who was a native of Springfield Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Together, they welcomed the births of: Edwin H. Eagle (1868-1937), who was born in Catasauqua on 14 October 1868; Lillie Susanna Eagle (1870-1926), who was born in Catasauqua on 13 December 1870 and later wed Frank H. Frickert (1867-1946); Frederick M. Eagle (1874-1880), who preceded both parents in death when he passed away at the age of six; Edith Henrietta Eagle (1880-1930), who was born in Catasauqua on 21 February 1880; Charlotte K. Eagle (1882-1957), who was born in Catasauqua on 28 November 1882 and later wed Adam Daniel Kleckner (1888-1967); and August Jacob Eagle (1884-1938), who was born in Catasauqua on 10 April 1884.

Still residing in Catasauqua in 1870, his household included his wife, Christiana, his daughter from his first marriage, Louisa, and two children from his second marriage: Emma, who had been born circa 1865, and Henry, who had been born circa 1868. That year’s federal census enumerator documented that he was a baker with real estate and personal property valued at $4,200 (roughly $155,750 in 2023 dollars). Also living with them were a fifteen-year-old female domestic whose name is illegible on the census ledger, and two bakers from Württemberg, Germany, John Dolt and Jacob Ruger, aged twenty-two and thirty, respectively.

Still employed as a baker in 1880, his Catasauqua household included his wife, Christiana, and their children: Emma, Edward, Lillie, Ella, Frederick, and Edith. But their household would not be a happy one for long.

Death and Interment

Like many veterans of the American Civil War, life was brief for Fred Eagle. While researchers presently do not know what caused the life of this Catasauqua baker to be cut short, they do know for certain that he died in Catasauqua in 1885—while still in his mid-fifties—and theorize that the disease or injury that sent him home early from the American Civil War, via a surgeon’s certificate of disability, may have taken such a toll on his health and possibly left him with lingering complications that it ultimately hastened his death. He remains at rest today at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua, Lehigh County.

Return to Civilian Life—Augustus G. Eagle

Like his brother before him, Second Lieutenant Augustus G. Eagle returned home to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley following his own honorable discharge. After arriving sometime in late September or early October 1864, he sought employment both to support himself financially and to regain some semblance of normalcy after all of the ugliness he had witnessed in combat since the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina in 1862.

Before the decade was out, he was operating a small business. On 30 March 1869, Lehigh County’s German language newspaper, Der Lecha Caunty Patriot, reported that “A. G. Eagle” obtained a license for his restaurant in Whitehall Township.

His family, friends and business associates came to know him as “Gus.”

According to the 1870 federal census, Gus Eagle and his wife, Charlotte, resided with their children, Oscar and Minnie, in South Whitehall, Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, where Augustus was employed as a “saloon keeper.” His real estate and personal property were valued at $1,800 by that year’s census enumerator. Oscar and Minnie were documented as attending school.

Residing with his wife, Charlotte, and their children, Oscar and Minnie, in West Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania by 1880, Gus Eagle was described by that year’s federal census enumerator as a “hotelkeeper.” The hotel with which he was involved was the Fairview Hotel. According to the 19 August 1902 edition of Allentown’s Morning Call newspaper, “He built the Fairview Hotel, in West Catasauqua, and conducted it for a time.”

On 7 May 1884, The Allentown Democrat reported that he had been awarded a class 5 hotel license for an establishment located in Whitehall Township that was anticipated to earn $4,000 or less in annual sales. The cost of his application was fifty dollars.

On 12 June 1885, he applied for, and was later awarded, a U.S. Civil War Pension. Roughly three months later, Gus Eagle’s brother and fellow 47th Pennsylvanian, Fred Eagle, died and was laid to rest at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua, Lehigh County.

Within two years of the approval of his hotel license, Gus Eagle’s saloon and hotel was a popular spot for social and political gatherings. On 17 September 1886, the Democratic Party held a “meet the candidates” night at the saloon to introduce Catasauqua residents to candidates in that year’s upcoming local and state elections. Among those who spoke to the crowd that night were A. G. Dewalt, Esq., The Honorable W. H. Sowden, The Honorable John D. Stiles, and J. Marshall Wright, Esq. Sometime around 10 p.m., however, a fight broke out in which multiple meeting participants were slashed by a razor-wielding man, causing most of the event’s attendees to flee the scene to avoid injury.

But that brawl apparently caused no harm to Gus Eagle’s reputation among his fellow soldiers and other community members; during the fall of 1887, he was elected as treasurer of the 47th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers’ association. And, on 28 May 1890, The Allentown Democrat reported that “Augustus G. Eagle, hotelkeeper, Whitehall” was one of multiple individuals chosen to serve as a petit juror.

In a report by auditors charged with assessing the state of Lehigh County’s finances (the “Statement of County Taxes for the Year 1890”), Gus Eagle was documented as a businessman who had been assessed taxes of $5,501 for 1890 (“Commissions per proposals” rate set at 4½ percent), and who still owed $635.19, according to 25 March 1891 edition of The Allentown Democrat.

The next month (April 1891), Allentown’s Morning Call newspaper reported that “Augustus Eagle has removed to the house erected by him on Pleasant Hill,” and then clarified by adding, “A. P. Harmony, formerly hotelkeeper at Mechanicsville, has taken charge of the Fairview House, lately vacated by Mr. Eagle.”

On 18 October 1893, Gus Eagle participated in a business meeting of the 47th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers’ Association, according to the next day’s edition of The Allentown Leader. They met to discuss plans for the regiment’s annual reunion, which was held in Catasauqua on 21 October. During the annual event, he was elected as treasurer of the regimental association, according to Allentown’s Morning Call newspaper.

On 28 July 1897, The Allentown Democrat reported that “Augustus G. Eagle, yeoman, Whitehall” was one of multiple individuals chosen to serve as a petit juror. Two years later, that same newspaper reported in its 30 August 1899 edition that he was one of six men who had been chosen by the Executive Committee of Lehigh County’s Democratic County Committee to represent Whitehall Township on the Committee on Resolutions for the annual Democratic County Committee Meeting, which was held that year “at the public house of William F. Krauss, in New Tripoli, Lynn tsp.,” on Saturday, 26 August.

Also in 1899, he again served as treasurer of the 47th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers’ Association, and was actively involved in the planning of the regiment’s annual reunion, which was held that year on “Monument Day” (19 October 1899) in conjunction with the unveiling of the Borough of Allentown’s Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, according to the 13 October 1899 edition of The Allentown Leader:

A meeting of members residing in Allentown of the Forty-seventh Regiment Association was held last evening at Daeufer’s saloon, to arrange for the annual reunion of the regiment to be held in this city on Monument Day. Lieutenant James Stuber was elected chairman and Lieutenant Colonel Chas. Abbott, secretary and treasurer. The annual meeting of the association will be held in the morning in the hall of the Turner Liederkranz, when routine business will be transacted and officers elected. South Bethlehem was chosen as the place for holding this year’s meeting, but because of the unveiling of the monument it was decided to meet here. The regiment will participate in the parade and will carry their old tattered flag that was used in the war. Another meeting of the local members will be held on Monday evening when final arrangements for the entertainment of the visitors will be made. Lieutenant Edward Wenner of Bethlehem, is the president; Colonel Abbott, Allentown, secretary; Lieutenant Augustus Eagle, Catasauqua, treasurer, and Rev. Mr. Rothrock [sic], Paterson, chaplain.

At the dawn of the New Year, Gus Eagle was documented as residing alone with his wife in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, where he was employed as a day laborer. That year, he also became one of multiple men nominated “under the new township law” by the Democrats of Whitehall Township for various elected positions within the township. Nominated for the post of township treasurer, he lost to Edward H. Ritter of Egypt, Pennsylvania by a 117 to 97-vote margin. Turnout was reported to have been “very light.”

Later that same year, however, he was elected as chaplain of the 47th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers’ association. He was then re-elected to that post the following year.

* Note: Augustus G. Eagle had also become a city official at some point during the 1880s or 1890s. According to Allentown’s Morning Call newspaper:

The Whitehall township commissioners elected him as supervisor of the Lower district, where his last active work was in grading the road in extension of Seventh street, just beyond the city limits.

Reportedly “in robust health” for the last three decades of his life, Gus Eagle kept active by participating in the meetings and events of numerous civic and social organizations, including: the Grand Army of the Republic’s Fuller Post (No. 378 (Catasauqua), the International Order of Odd Fellows (Catasauqua Lodge, No. 269), and the Union Veterans’ Legion (Encampment, No. 18).

Illness, Death and Interment

Still serving as an elected supervisor in Whitehall Township in 1902, Gus Eagle’s health began a dramatic decline as he suffered a series of strokes during the summer of 1902. The first occurred on 25 June, according to Allentown’s Morning Call newspaper. The second occurred six days later—during the early hours of 1 July, according to the Wednesday, 2 July 1902 edition of The Allentown Democrat, which reported that he had been “Stricken with Paralysis”:

Augustus G. Eagle, of West Catasauqua, one of the Supervisors of Whitehall township, former hotelkeeper and war veteran, was stricken with paralysis yesterday at 5 A.M. His entire left side is affected and he is in a precarious condition. Dr. J. L. Hornbeck attends.

On Saturday, 9 August 1902, The Allentown Leader reported that “Lambert Hill of Pottsville, called on Lieut. Augustus G. Eagle of West Catasauqua, who is seriously ill from two strokes of apoplexy.”

Just eight days later, the 64-year-old former soldier and civic leader was gone, having passed away at his home on Race Street “near the lower Lehigh river bridge” in West Catasauqua on 17 August. His funeral, which was held at his home, was officiated by the Rev. J. F. Lambert. According to a report in The Allentown Leader:

The funeral of Lieutenant Augustus G. Eagle, who died on Sunday, took place Wednesday afternoon from his late residence in West Catasauqua, and was largely attended. The services were held at the house and were conducted by the Rev. James F. Lambert, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Catasauqua. He preached an edifying funeral sermon and paid a glowing tribute to the memory of the deceased….

The remains reposed in a handsome black cloth-covered casket with extension handles and a beautifully engraved plate. They made a very lifelike appearance and were viewed by several hundred people.

The funeral was attended by a large concourse of relatives and friends of the deceased, members of the 47th Regiment Veterans’ Volunteer Association … Encampment No. 18, Union Veteran Legion, Fuller Post No. 378, G.A.R., and Catasauqua Lodge No. 269, I.O.O.F. Members of the G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] acted as pall bearers.

The floral tributes were numerous and very beautiful, as follows: Wreath with inscription ‘Grandpa’ from granddaughter, Miss Mamie A. Schafer, Catasauqua; cross of roses, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Diehl, Allentown; wreath, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kostenbader; bouquet of pink and white carnations, Mrs. Frederick Eagle and family; calla lilies and lilies-of-the-valley, John C. Schafer, Catasauqua; cross, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Rau, Rittersville; palms, wife; bouquet of mixed flowers, friend; bouquet of white roses, friend. A handsome slumber robe was presented by his wife.

Mrs. Eagle wishes to express sincere thanks to the neighbors and friends for their kind assistance and words of sympathy during the illness and death of the deceased, and to the 47th Regiment Veterans’ Volunteer Association, Encampment No. 18, Union Veteran Legion, Fuller Post No. 378, G.A.R., and Catasauqua Lodge No. 269, I.O.O.F., for their many acts of kindness to the family.

Formal military services were then held at his graveside at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua. The cemetery’s stillness was shattered as members of the Sons of Union Veterans fired a salute over his grave and Professor Anton Bush, the 47th Pennsylvania’s second regimental bandmaster, raised his bugle to sound “Taps.”

Allentown’s Morning Call newspaper carried the news of his death on its front page on Tuesday, 19 August 1902:

Augustus G. Eagle, a prominent citizen of Whitehall township, died on Sunday at his home in West, Catasauqua, near the lower Lehigh river bridge. He was stricken with paralysis June 25 which affected his left side. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon [20 August], Rev. J. F. Lambert officiating. Interment will be made in Fairview Cemetery.

Deceased was aged 64 years, 4 months and 9 days. He was born in Prussia and came to Catasauqua over forty years ago. He was a man of much activity and stood high in the esteem of his acquaintances. He built the Fairview Hotel, in West Catasauqua, and conducted it for a time. The Whitehall township commissioners elected him as supervisor of the Lower district, where his last active work was in grading the road in extension of Seventh street, just beyond the city limits.

Mr. Eagle enlisted in Company F, Forty-seventh Regiment, August 30, 1861, was made sergeant and was promoted to second lieutenant April 1, 1862. He resigned September 11, 1864. Mr. Eagle was a familiar figure at the reunions of the survivors and was for several years treasurer of the Survivors’ Association. He was a member of Fuller Post, No. 378, G.A.R.; Catasauqua Lodge, No. 269, I.O.O.F; Encampment, No. 18, U.V. L., and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, at Catasauqua.

Mr. Eagle is survived by a widow, nee Woerster, who is from Quakertown. Their three children, a babe, Oscar and Minnie, wife of John C. Schafer, are dead. One grand-daughter survives.

His funeral notice, which was published on page four of the same edition of that newspaper noted that his funeral would be held “on Wednesday [20 August] at 2 p.m. at his late home, in West Catasauqua.”

Relatives, friends and members of the Forty-seventh Regiment Association are invited to attend. Services at the house. Interment, Fairview Cemetery. Members of Encampment No. 18, U.V.L.; Catasauqua Lodge, No. 269, I.O.O.F, and Fuller Post G.A.R, of Catasauqua, are also invited to attend.  F & S

The Allentown Democrat described his death and funeral in its 27 August 1902 edition as follows:

Lieut. Augustus G. Eagle, a well known and highly respected citizen of Whitehall township, died on Saturday night, 16th, at his residence in West Catasauqua, aged 64 years, 4 months and 9 days. He had been in robust health until last June, when he began to complain of illness and suffered a stroke of apoplexy on June 25th, which was followed by another stroke on July 12th. He was born April 8, 1838, at Sonnenberg, Prussia. He came to America on June 23, 1855, and joined his brother Frederick, who had come to America two years previous and located in Allentown. Later he went to Catasauqua and secured employment with the Crane Iron Co. Afterwards he was employed for two years in Eberhard’s stone quarry. When the civil war broke out Mr. Eagle enlisted in the Union army and was mustered as a private in Co. F, 47th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, for a term of three years. Shortly after enlisting Mr. Eagle was promoted to the position of sergeant, and April 1, 1862, was commissioned a second lieutenant, and was in command of Company F during the absence of Capt. Henry S. Harte on recruiting services. He was honorably discharged at Berryville, Va., Sept. 12, 1864. He is survived by his wife and one grand-daughter, three grown children having preceded him in death. He was treasurer of the school board of Whitehall township for three years, and served several terms as a member of the Democratic County Standing Committee, and often assisted at elections as a member of the election board. He was a supervisor of Whitehall township when he died. The funeral was held on Wednesday afternoon last from his late residence in West Catasauqua, and interment made in Fairview cemetery, Rev. J. F. Lambert officiating. Fuller Post and Encampment No. 18, Union Veteran Legion, buried him with military honors, a squad of the Sons of Veterans firing a salute, and Prof. Bush, a comrade of the deceased in the army, sounding ‘Taps’ on the bugle.

Legacy of Augustus G. Eagle

Following his emigration from Prussia during the early 1850s, Augustus G. Eagle became an active member of his community, serving in various capacities as a civic leader. During his three years as a treasurer of Whitehall Township’s school board, he was tasked with ensuring the stability of the school district’s finances which, in turn, led to a stable environment for the districts’ teachers and students. As an election board member, he helped ensure the peaceful transfer of power at the local, state and national levels in America for decades by helping to facilitate the operation of multiple elections.

So respected was he that, following his death in 1902—nearly forty years after the end of the American Civil War, he was eulogized by several veterans’ organizations, including the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, during its thirtieth annual reunion in Allentown on 22 October 1892—the anniversary of the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, and the Grand Army of the Republic’s Fuller Post in Catasauqua during memorial services it held on 15 September 1902.

What Happened to Augustus Eagle’s Wife and Children?

On 26 June 1902, Charlotte Eagle applied for (and was later awarded) a U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension. She then appeared before Lehigh County’s Register of Wills on 5 September 1902 to present a copy of her husband’s last will and testament and other documents related to the probate of his estate, including an attestation from her regarding the date and circumstances of his death and an attestation from William Glace and David Davis that they had personally witnessed the signing and sealing by Augustus G. Eagle of his final will and testament, which directed that the expenses for his funeral and burial and all outstanding debts be paid and that the remainder of his estate be given to his widow, Charlotte.

Sadly, within months of her husband’s death, Lehigh Valley newspapers reported an attempted break-in at Charlotte Eagle’s home in West Catasauqua. According to 2 October 1902 edition of The Allentown Leader:

Some unknown persons made an attempt to enter the residence of Mrs. Augustus A. Eagle [sic] of West Catasauqua the other night. They were at work on several shutters on the side of the house and the noise was heard by neighbors, who immediately gave an alarm. The scoundrels then immediately took to their heels.

Widowed by her husband sixteen years earlier and suffering from aortic regurgitation and chronic interstitial nephritis, Charlotte Eagle passed away in Catasauqua at 2:15 a.m. on 9 September 1918. She was interred at the Fairview Cemetery on 12 September. Mrs. Mame Reppert was the informant. William H. Scherer handled the funeral arrangements.

What Happened to Frederic M. Eagle’s Surviving Wife and Children?

Augustus Eagle’s daughter Edith Henrietta Eagle never married, but instead chose to become a Sunday school teacher and active volunteer for the family’s church (St. Paul’s Lutheran in Catasauqua). Ill for the final three years of her life, she died at the age of fifty at the Allentown Hospital in Allentown, Lehigh County on 9 June 1930, and was laid to rest in the family plot at Fairview Cemetery in Catasauqua. According to her obituary in Allentown’s Morning Call newspaper:

Death claimed Edith Henrietta, daughter of Christiana, nee Weaver, and the late Fred Eagle, who passed away in the Allentown hospital early Monday morning.

Complications which set in during a three-year-illness hastened her death. She had been admitted for treatment on Sunday.

Born in 1880, Miss Eagle for many years, was a faithful member of St. Paul’s Lutheran church, Catasauqua, taught Sunday school for a number of years and had been an ardent worker at all times in behalf of congregational interests.

She leaves her aged mother and the following brothers and sisters: Edwin H. Eagle, Catasauqua; Ella, wife of Mahlon Fronheiser, Quakertown; Charlotte, wife of Adam Kleckner, Allentown; August Eagle, Catasauqua, and Emma Eagle, Allentown.

Funeral services at which Rev. Dr. James F. Lambert, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church, will officiate, will be held on Thursday at 2 p.m., from the funeral home of Frederick and Scherer, 208 Front street, Catasauqua.

Interment will be made in Fairview cemetery, West Catasauqua.

Still living in Catasauqua at the time of her daughter’s death, Christiana (Weaver) Eagle, Gus Eagle’s widow, was documented as the head of a household that included her children Ellen and August J. Eagle. Just over a month later, she died at the home of her daughter, Charlotte (Eagle) Kleckner, on 12 July 1930, and was laid to rest beside her husband at the Fairview Cemetery in West Catasauqua. According to her obituary in Allentown’s Morning Call newspaper:

Mrs. Christiana Eagle died at 7 o’clock Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Adam Kleckner, 2429 Liberty street, of ailments of old age. She was in her eighty-sixth year.

She resided at Catasauqua for a long number of years but after the death of her daughter Edith H., she came to Allentown to make her home. Mrs. Eagle was a native of Springfield township, Berks county. Her husband, Frederick Eagle, was a well-known Civil War veteran and conducted a bakery business in Catasauqua many years. He died in 1885.

Mrs. Eagle was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran church and in her active years took an active part in the work of the missionary society. She was greatly devoted to her family and was a helpful friend and neighbor. There survive the following children: Mrs. Adam Kleckner, Allentown; Mrs. Alice Fronheiser, Quakertown; August J. Eagle, Edwin H. Eagle, Catasauqua; Emma Eagle, of Allentown, a step-daughter, fifteen grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren. A sister, Miss Ida Weaver, resides at Quakertown.

Services will be held at Frederick & Scherer’s funeral home, 208 Front street, Catasauqua, on Wednesday at 2 p.m., D.S.T. Interment in Fairview cemetery, West Catasauqua.

Gus Eagle’s daughter, Charlotte (Eagle) Kleckner, grew up to marry and make a home in Allentown for forty years with Adam Daniel Kleckner. After a long, full life, she died at the Allentown home of her daughter, Marie (Kleckner) Ochs, at the corner of 36th and Congress Streets on 5 May 1957, and was laid to rest at Allentown’s Greenwood Cemetery. According to her obituary in Allentown’s Morning Call:

Mrs. Charlotte K. Kleckner, 74, of 933 N. 7th St., Allentown, died at 6:10 last night at the home of her daughter Marie, wife of Kenneth Ochs, 36th and Congress Sts., Allentown. She had been visiting there the last several days.

Born in Catasauqua, she was a daughter of the late Frederick and Christiana (Weaver) Eagle. She was married to Adam D. Kleckner.

Mrs. Klecker [sic] had lived in Allentown 40 years.

She was a member of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church and its United Lutheran Church Women and Ladies Aid and of the auxiliaries of Muhlenberg College, Muhlenberg Medical Center, Good Shepherd Home and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, all Allentown.

Surviving besides her husband and daughter Marie are a second daughter Christine, wife of Robert Shelly, Allentown; a son A. Daniel, Allentown, and four grandchildren.

Services will be at 1 P.M. Friday in the J. S. Burkholder Funeral Home, 1601 Hamilton St., Allentown.

 

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