http://wiki.lickingcountylibrary.info/index.php?title=Johnny_Clem&feed=atom&action=historyJohnny Clem - Revision history2024-03-28T11:51:17ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.24.1http://wiki.lickingcountylibrary.info/index.php?title=Johnny_Clem&diff=2959&oldid=prevLCL: /* Memorials */2017-10-26T13:05:02Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Memorials</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Major General John Lincoln Clem was born on August 13, 1851<ref>Nina Kohser, “John Clem: Newark’s Own Civil War Hero,” ''The Newark Advocate'', June 10, 1984.</ref>  at a house located at 26 W. Harrison Street in Newark, Ohio.<ref>Amy Hollon, “Legend’s Newark Roots Confirmed,” ''The Advocate'', February 3, 2009.</ref>  Clem was christened as John Joseph Klem at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. He changed the spelling of his last name to Clem, which he preferred over the original spelling of Klem, and he changed his middle name to Lincoln during the Civil War.<ref>Kathy Wesley, “Johnny Clem a Hero – Or Was He?,” ''The Newark Advocate'', October 11, 1989, 1.</ref>  Clem explained that he met Abraham Lincoln once in 1864 and liked him so much that he decided to take his name.<ref>“General Clem Dies in Texas Home,” ''The Newark Advocate American Tribune'', May 14, 1937, 1.</ref>  “Johnny” Clem, as he is widely referred to, is known as the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga,” and is commonly regarded as being the youngest person to bear arms in the Civil War . Clem died at the age of 85 on May 13, 1937 in San Antonio, Texas. <ref>Wesley, “Johnny Clem a Hero – Or Was He?”</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Major General John Lincoln Clem was born on August 13, 1851<ref>Nina Kohser, “John Clem: Newark’s Own Civil War Hero,” ''The Newark Advocate'', June 10, 1984.</ref>  at a house located at 26 W. Harrison Street in Newark, Ohio.<ref>Amy Hollon, “Legend’s Newark Roots Confirmed,” ''The Advocate'', February 3, 2009.</ref>  Clem was christened as John Joseph Klem at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. He changed the spelling of his last name to Clem, which he preferred over the original spelling of Klem, and he changed his middle name to Lincoln during the Civil War.<ref>Kathy Wesley, “Johnny Clem a Hero – Or Was He?,” ''The Newark Advocate'', October 11, 1989, 1.</ref>  Clem explained that he met Abraham Lincoln once in 1864 and liked him so much that he decided to take his name.<ref>“General Clem Dies in Texas Home,” ''The Newark Advocate American Tribune'', May 14, 1937, 1.</ref>  “Johnny” Clem, as he is widely referred to, is known as the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga,” and is commonly regarded as being the youngest person to bear arms in the Civil War . Clem died at the age of 85 on May 13, 1937 in San Antonio, Texas. <ref>Wesley, “Johnny Clem a Hero – Or Was He?”</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Clem was born to Roman and Magdalene Klem in 1851.<ref>Kohser, “John Clem: Newark’s Own Civil War Hero.”</ref>  The family had been staying in the home of Clem’s late uncle, Peter Kline, who passed away approximately five weeks before Johnny was born. Johnny Clem’s mother and father moved into the home to assist Kline’s widow , who was caring for their six children. It was in this house that Johnny Clem was born on August 13, 1851.<ref>Hollon, “Legend’s Newark Roots Confirmed.”</ref>  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Clem was born to Roman and Magdalene Klem in 1851.<ref>Kohser, “John Clem: Newark’s Own Civil War Hero.”</ref>  The family had been staying in the home of Clem’s late uncle, Peter Kline, who passed away approximately five weeks before Johnny was born. Johnny Clem’s mother and father moved into the home to assist Kline’s widow , who was caring for their six children. It was in this house that Johnny Clem was born on August 13, 1851.<ref>Hollon, “Legend’s Newark Roots Confirmed.”</ref>  </div></td></tr>
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