Samuel Bloomer was born on Oct. 30, 1835, at Engi Canton, Glarus, Switzerland, to Jacob Bloomer and Annie Marty-Bloomer. He came to America in 1846 and to Stillwater, Minn., in 1848. He married Miss Nellie Pressnell, who was born in Shipton-Under-Wychwood, England, on Aug. 10, 1845, and they had two children, Chas. H. Bloomer, born Sept. 27, 1866, who died Apr. 25, 1891, and Grace G. Bloomer, born Feb. 18, 1872, who died Feb. 1, 1874. Bloomer enlisted on April 22, 1861, and was mustered into service in Co. B, 1st Minn. Vol. Inf. at Fort Snelling on April 29, 1861. A corporal in the 1st Minnesota Vol. Infantry, he was wounded first at Bull Run. In the Battle of Savage Station, after the Color Sergeant was killed, Corporal Bloomer seized the colors, carried them through the engagement, was afterward promoted to Color Sergeant, and carried the flag through Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Glendale, Malvern Hill, the first and second battles of South Mountain, and Antietam, where he lost his right leg. At Antietam he lay on the battlefield for three nights before being taken to a temporary hospital at Hoffman’s barn, where his leg was amputated. He was afterward removed to Smoketown Hospital, was discharged on Dec. 6, 1862, and came home. On August 1st 1863, President Lincoln appointed him Lieutenant in the Veteran Reserve Corps. While on duty at the military post at Evansville, Ind., he commanded the 25th and 120th Companies of the 2nd Battalion Vet. Res. Corps., later did duty in the Freedmen’s Bureau at Pine Bluff, Ark., and was mustered out on Sept. 19, 1866. He participated in First Bull Run, Edwards Ferry, the Siege of Yorktown, West Point, Va., Fair Oaks, Peach Orchard, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Glendale, Malvern Hill, South Mountain, and Antietam, and he was the last Color Sergeant of the 1st Minn. Vol. Inf. He died on Oct. 4, 1917.