Complex sentence: His father was named after Judge Joshua Forman, the founder of the village of Syracuse who was a personal family friend and served as a soldier in the Civil War with the 149th Infantry of New York volunteers.
Split into simpler sentences: His father was named after Judge Joshua Forman, the founder of the village of Syracuse who was a personal family friend. He served as a soldier in the Civil War with the 149th Infantry of New York volunteers.