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From the Gowanda PennySaver News "Reflections" series compiled by Mary Pankow. issue date - June 2, 2002

c. 1907

Darby Post No. 359, Grand Army of the Republic - Captain Henry Hubbard Darby, of the 64th New York Vo1unteer Infantry, is killed on the last day of the Civil War, April 1865. Local veterans name the Gowanda Post of the Grand Army of the Republic in his honor. Members of the post gather for this group photo on South Water Street in 1907. Pictured in front row, from left, are: George Frink, John Mattoon, Silas Arnold, Joseph Steele, George Howard, John Gleazen, Amos McIntyre, Joseph Matthews, Lewis Henry, Noah Twoguns and Dudley Phelps. In back row are: George Vail, Christian Andres, Luzerne Clark, Jimmy Cornplanter, Alfred Groat, George Weiser, Anson Alverson, Milon J. Brown, Frank White, John Toepp and Charles Gauger. The Darby Post goes out of existence in 1939 upon the death of its last member, Luzerne Clark. The last surviving Union veteran, Albert Woolson, of Duluth, Minnesota, dies in 1956. (Photo courtesy of Gowanda Area Historical Society.)