sentences:  He enlisted in the Union army at the age of sixteen during the American Civil War.On October 9, 1870, he married Miss Nora M. Eiler of Atchison, Kansas.He was a teacher for 15 years, a superintendent of public instruction in Atchison County, Kansas for four years, then a writer and lecturer in support of free thought, his lectures being translated into German, French, Bohemian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Bengali and Singalese.