Frederick W. Apt, father of Charles H., was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1824, but when a boy was taken to Fairfield County, Ohio. He grew up and married there, and was a blacksmith by trade. In 1861 he enlisted for service in the Union army, but in a short time was discharged. In 1863 he removed to Indiana and soon afterward again enlisted, this time in the Eighty-seventh Indiana Infantry. He remained in the service until the close of the war, and suffered such hardships and exposure that he was taken seriously ill before being brought home. He was at Washington at the time of the Grand Review, but was not able to march in the procession. He was carried home on August 22, 1865, and died the following September 12. His death occurred at Kewanna, Indiana. He had become a republican during the war, and was a member of the German Reformed Church. Frederick W. Apt married Eliza Lytton, who was born in Northern England in 1834 and died at Kewanna, Indiana, in 1895. Her parents came to this country when she was very young, and her mother settled in Fairfield County, Ohio. Her father died either while at sea or shortly after the arrival in America. Frederick W. Apt and his wife had only two children: Charles H. and Elmer E. The latter is a contractor and builder of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Frederick W. Apt married for her second husband Abel Graham. He is also deceased. One son by that union was Perry, now a farmer near Kewanna, Indiana.¹