Lieutenant Edgar Swartwout Dudley

     Edgar S. Dudley attended school at Johnstown (N.Y.) Academy till 1863. In 1863-4 he was a clerk in the Provost Marshal's office for the 13th New York District at Schenectady. In 1864, May 28th, he was mustered into service as 2nd Liet. of the 1st New York Artillery, served in the fortifications about Washington, and was honorably discharged November 23, 1864. He then resumed his course of education at Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., and continued there from 1865 until August, where he remained till June, 1870, when he was graduated, No. 15, in the class of 53. Immediately after graduation he received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd U.S. Artillery. Lieutenant Dudley served in nearly all Staff positions to which a line officer is usually called.

    &nbspIn October, 1875, he was promoted to a first Lieutenancy in the 2nd United States Artillery. He saw service in most of the military departments at the West and the East. In 1876 Lieut Dudley was detailed as Professor of Military Science and and Tactics at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. He organized the military department of that institution, there having been no such department prior to his in 1884, Lieutenant Dudley was again detailed as Professor in this department of the University of Nebraska, and held this military department of the University in a condition that received the heartly commendation of the authorities and the Governor of the State. While in Nebraska, he was appointed Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to the Governor, General John M. Thayer, and held that honorary appointment, although he had been relieved from his Professorship he has left the State and rejoined his Battery.

      Early in 1881, Lieut. Dudley was assigned to duty at Washington, D.C. He took part in the inauguration of President Garfield, and in his funeral ceremonies, and was also in his regular turn put in charge of the guard at the guard at the White House and of the assassin Guiteau, until October, 1881. In 1882-3, he was Aide-de-Camp to Brevet Major General Henry J. Hunt, commanding the Department of the South, and at the same time was Acting Judge Advocate and Acting Chief Ordinance Officer of that Department.

      While still holding his commission, Lieut. Dudley studied law at the Albany Law School, and graduated with the class of 1875, in the spring of that year. In the autumn of 1875 he was admitted to the practice of law in the Courts of New York, and in January, 1888, he was admitted to the bar in the State of Nebraska.
      Lieut. Dudley has always taken great interest in Masonry, and has held several positions of prominence. In the year 1887-8 he was Grand Commander of Knights Templar of the State of Nebraska. In the "Scottish Rite", Lt. Dudley has been elected to the Jurisdiction of the United States, of which Gen. Albert Pike is the Grand Commander.

     Lt. Dudley was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and of the Grand Army of the Republic, being the first Commander of Post No. 214., G.A.R, at Lincoln, Nebraska.

He died about 1900.