Career
Born in 1826 in London, Erickson immigrated to the United States. and was living in Brooklyn when he joined the Navy. He served as a captain of the forecastle on the United States Ship Pontoosuc in the Wilmington Campaign, from the First Battle of Fort Fisher on December 24, 1864, through the campaign"s end on February 22, 1865. He was severely wounded and received treatment at a hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Erickson died on August 2, 1907, at age 80 or 81 and was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.