Brock, John C.

John C. Brock, who was born to William and Elizabeth Donaldson Brock on April 12, 1843, grew up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. As a child, he attended the local African Methodist Episcopal Sabbath School. By the 1860s, Brock worked as a farm laborer and as secretary for the AME Sabbath School. In April 1864, he joined Company F of the 43rd USCT regiment. He received a promotion to commissary sergeant on April 12, 1864 and later to quartermaster sergeant on January 5, 1865. While serving with the 43rd USCT, he also worked as a wartime correspondent for the Philadelphia (PA) Christian Recorder. The paper published a series of letters in which Brock described his experience and perspective on the Civil War. After the war, Brock married Lucinda Jane Dickson on December 25, 1867 in Carlisle. They later moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania and had seven children. His son, John Robert Paul Brock, was the first black graduate of Dickinson College (Class of 1901). In the 1880s, John C. Brock became a minster of West Chester’s Bethel AME Church. He died in West Chester on August 16, 1901. (By Don Sailer)

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Brock's son, John R. P. Brock (Class of 1901), was the first African American graduate at Dickinson College
    Full name
    John C. Brock
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    Black
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    7
    Family
    William Brock (father), Elizabeth Donaldson Brock (mother), Lucinda Jane Dickson Brock (wife, 1867), John R. P. Brock (son), Ralph Elwood (son)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    AME Sabbath School, Carlisle, PA
    Occupation
    Military
    Clergy
    Educator
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Farm Laborer
    Relation to Slavery
    Free black
    Military
    Union Army
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Blair, William and William Pencak, eds. Making and Remaking Pennsylvania’s Civil War. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Brock, John C.," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/32490.