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Khachadour Paul Garabedian ((アルメニア語:Խաչատուր Կարապետեան); August 25, 1836 - August 25, 1881) was an Ottoman-born Armenian United States Navy Sailor of the Union Army, considered the only Armenian soldier to have served in combat during American Civil War.〔〔 During the Civil War, he held the rank of officer and served aboard two ships which blockaded against the ports of the Confederacy for the Union. His first task was to go along the Atlantic Coast and reach the Gulf of Mexico. In 1865 he was discharged from the Navy and settled in Philadelphia where he is believed to be the first citizen of Armenian ancestry.〔〔 ==Life== Of Armenian descent, Khachadour Paul Garabedian was born near Constantinople in Rodosto (today Tekirdağ), Ottoman Empire on August 25, 1836. In the 1850s Garabedian emigrated to the United States and settled in Lowell, Massachusetts. Garabedian worked as a machinist at the Massachusetts Mills and eventually became a naturalized United States citizen.〔 It is noted that in 1868, Garabedian filed for a patent with the US Commissioner of Patents for a Pipe Coupling.〔 On June 18, 1871, Garabedian married Hannah Matilda “Tillie” Wynkoop in Philadelphia at the Church of the Messiah.〔 They had no children.〔 Garabedian died of tuberculosis at the age of 45 on August 25, 1881 and is buried in the Fernwood Cemetery near Philadelphia.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Khachadour Paul Garabedian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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