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| Highest Rank | Private |
| Unit | Co. H, 4th New Hampshire Infantry |
| Date | between 1890 and 1915 |
| Born | August 3, 1841 |
| Place Born | Dunbarton, NH |
| Died | November 7, 1920 |
| Place Died | Seattle, WA |
| Buried | Lake View (Seattle) |
| Service Record | Residence Dunbarton, NH; 20 years old; enlisted on 9/23/1861 as a Private and mustered into "H" Co. NH 4th Infantry; Mustered Out on 9/24/1864 |
| Obit/Notes | --Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Monday, November 8, 1920, page 14, column B PIONEER RESIDENT CALLED BY DEATH John Webster Twiss Dies at Home on East Harrison Street Sunday. John Webster Twiss, seventy-nine years old, a resident of Seattle since 1885, died at his home, 909 East Harrison Street, at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, after an illness of six weeks. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Bonney-Watson establishment, with Rev. J. B. Powers officiating. The body will be cremated. Twiss was born in New Hampshire and served throughout the Civil War as a private in the Fourth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. Although engaged in many famous campaigns and battles, he escaped being wounded. In 1885 he came to Seattle and settled on a ranch across Lake Washington on what is now known as Mercer's Slough. A rowboat was the only means of crossing the lake. The following year he took up residence in Seattle and opened a tobacco shop in the old Bellevue Hotel at First Avenue and Battery Street, where he remained in business for more than twenty years. He retired fourteen years ago. He was a member of Stevens Post of the G. A. R. and an active member of the King County Democratic Club and the Borrowed Time Club. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Ida Twiss, a daughter, Mrs. W. W. French; a son, Russell T. Twiss, all of Seattle; a sister, Mrs. John Bunton of New Hampshire, and a brother, George Twiss of Chicago. |
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Buried at Lake View Cemetery
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