James Catlow
1853 – c. 1888
Co. B, 7th U.S. Cavalry
USAR
James Catlow was born about 1853 in England to Joseph and Mary Ann Baulmforth Catlow.
The family emigrated to the U.S. in 1856.
James Catlow appears in the 1870 census for Dundee, Kane County, Illinois, as the 17-year-old son of Joseph and Mary Ann Catlow. Therefore, his service occurred after 1870, and he applied for a disability (invalid) pension in November, 1881. (His pension documents for service in Company B, 7th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, is filed among Civil War Pensions, although his service was not during this conflict.)
The early history of 7th Cavalry Regiment (formed in 1866) was closely tied to the movement of people and trade along the southwest and on the western plains. These routes extended the domination of the United States into the far reaches of a largely unsettled western plains and southwestern territories. More and more wagon trains loaded with settlers, rolling west, were being attacked by indigenous people defending their land. The 7th Cavalry Regiment was among 6 Regiments that established a number of military posts at strategic locations throughout the West.
James Catlow died prior to April 30, 1888, when his mother applied for survivor’s benefits on his military pension. He is buried with his parents at Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution