The Grand Army of the Republic was founded as a Fraternal Military Society for the Union Veterans of the Civil War in Decatur, Illnois on April 6th, 1866 in order to preserve the Union, honor the War Dead, provide relief for the Veterans' Children and Widows and to defend the Constitution of the United States of America. It's last member died in 1956.
Post Number 12 was founded in the Roxborough Section of Philadelphia in 1874 by Col. John Harper and John F. Parker. The very first meeting was held in the "Old Fellows Hall" at Lyceum & Ridge Avenues The G. A. R. Hall was then located at 422 Fountain Street on the site of an old fire house.
Our great great grandfather John G. Keller was a member.
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