Birth Date: 1835
Date of Death: May 9, 1908
Enlistment Date: April 18, 1861 at Brooklyn, New York to serve 3 years
(aged 24 years)
Mustered In: May 23, 1861 as sergeant in Company G.
Marksman
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Company: G
Muster Out Date: Discharged - For Disability on September 12, 1862 at Washington, D.C
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Marriage Date and Place: Fleet Street Methodist Church on July 4, 1861
Wife's Maiden Name: Julia Barclay
Julia left to return to Brooklyn in 1882, when she heard her son Robert Stuart was ill.
Never returned to Australia or to Ike.
Married - Alexandra Black in Sydney in 1885 (never divorced from Julia)
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Entered traveling show as marksman, taking the name "Colonel Ike Austin"
Traveled to:
England
Far East
Australia
Joined Circus Company - St. Leon's Circus and toured Australia.
Spent last years of his life, when his eyesight failed, at the George Street Asylum in Parramatta (a suburb of Sydney), Australia.
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