iHim loopa P~Jii6_ MW iItG. -e VP W, 7- wi - - - - -- E77777 - - mmmmowmaumoo Howell Carnegie LIbrrty Howell, M ich. & & - - -- Oman I LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. Used in The Honor Roll. In general, the abbreviations used are those prescribed by Army and Navy Regulations. Many abbreviations have been sent in which have remained unintelligible to the editors despite all research. These are transcribed as reported.-The Editor. AEF.... A merican E xpleditionary Forces Amb................. A mbulance Atm............... Ammunition AS...................Air Service ASRC..Air Service Reserve Corps AWO()...... Absent without leave B...................... Brigade.......................... Born BH................Base Hospital Bn................... Bttalion Btry................... Battery Brig........Brigade; Brigaidier CA.............. Coast Artillery ('............. C: t-Canada C(AC. a......Coast Artillery Corps (a EF.................Candian Expeditionary Forces Can..id........... C( nadda Capt............... (aptain Cas................... (Ciasual Cent.................. Central C1........................ (Class CM............ Carpene ter's M Cmdg............. Commanding ('o................ Co.m. pany C).... on... o. (. i1di ng (ffi cer Col................ Colonel Comdg( 1 d............ Co i i i m n d ing (ondr.....Commlander. S. Navy Commsd.......... C, mmissioned Conv.............. Cn ivales(ent....................... m (Cp1) I............ Corporal Cps....................... C orps D..................... Depot )B............... Depot BlB igade DICM (British)............ Distinguished Cond uct MIedal D)ef................... )efensive Dent..................... Iental DIet................. I)etachment I)etch........... I)etachment Disch......D......... I)ischa rgedl IDSC..I)istintguished Service Cross D SM....................... Distinguished Service Medal DSO (British).............. Distinguished Service Order Eng........... E rngineers Enngrs................ Engineers E nt.................... E ntered Evac............... Evacuation FA............. Field Artillery Fed..................... Federal FH.............. Field Hospital F id........................ F ield FS................Field Sig'nal F t.................... F ort (en.................... General H........... (General Hospital G(HQ...... General Headquarters HA......... Hospital Apprentice Hdq............... Headquarters H osp................... I osit al HIq............... Headquarters ICOTS........ Infantry Central Officers Training School Inf..................... Infantry j g.................Junior Grade Km................... Kilometer,ieut................ Lieuten nt lt................... Lieutenant M...................... M ar ines MA............ Military Aviator Maj................... jor MNC (British)...... Military Cross M ech.................. M echani c Med................ Medical M(G........... Machine (un MM............. Machinist's Mate (British).....Military Medal Mm.................. illimeter MNG... Michigan National I Guarrd Mob..M i............ M o:bile M:'........... Military Police MTC......Motor Transport C(orps N............. Navy, Naval NA..............National A rmy NG...Na.......Ntional Guard Off............ Officer, Offensive Opr................... Operator Ord.......... Ord cnance ORU..... Ordnance Rep'air Unit OTC.....Officers' Training Camp OTS... Officers' Training School PM'............ Iharmcist's Mate P]rom....1............ Promoted ProvProv.. Provost, 'rovisional P vt.................... Private QMC.......Quartermaster Corps RA...............Regular Army IC.................eserve Corps Rct..................... ecruit Regt.................. Regiient Repl............... plcement RFC..........Royal Flying Corps ROTC.................... eserve Officers' Training Camp RMA...Reserve M\ilitary Aviator RR................... Railroad RTO................. Rairoad Transpor tation Officer San................... Sanitary SATC................. Students' Army Training Corps SC......Sub-chaser, Sig'nal Corps SCD................... Surgeon's Certificate of D)isability Sch..................... School Sec..................... Section Sergt..t........... Sergeant Serv.....................ervice s g................ Senior Grade Sig....................... Signal Sgt........... SerLgeant SOS...........Service of Supply Sqdn.................. Squadron Sta...................... Station Sup...................... Supply TC.................. Tank Corps Tel................... Telegraph TM...............Trench Mortar Tr....................... Train Trng.................. Training Trsf.......... Transferred USA................U. S. Army USM............... U. S. Marines USMC........U. S. Marine Corps USS...........United States Ship USN............... U. S. Navy Vet.................. Veterinary. Vol.................. Volunteer! 2 (. 74eg/Served /0 k, fo epfe/~fo *Or t PERSHING'S TO THE TRIBUTE LINE I pay the supreme tribute to the officers and soldiers of the Line. When I think of their heroism, their patience under hardships, their unflinching spirit, I am filled with emotion I am unable to express. Their deeds are immortal and they have earned the eternal gratitude of our country. JOHN J. PERSHING General, Commanding The American Expeditionary Forces 6 O 8 O o u —i i-\\\\ \\YLIPSFLIUXI//I/ /I rA LC" oC/ ilKtQ r\ \s ~I Jnwuc*ckJ/ L7 O V IT 14, LSL)CPIV rcr7slCJ /3/ G — - - -"-r- v Q s 2r 1 _ _ _ _llYlslllli~1111119~~J - _ I - I" i; B~ ? g Ch0 Conor?o of LIVINGSTON COUNTY MICHIGAN U. S.A. 1917 1918 1919 DEDICATION TO OUR BOYS OF 1917, 1918, 1919. the lads in olive drab and navy blue and forest green, those who gave until it hurt; yes, until it hurt physically in discomforts, in denials and in hardships, to the lads who have known the weight of a pack at the end of the last long mile or the heat of the furnace room at the end of the dog watch, to the Six Hundred and Seventy-Four whose names, records, likenesses appear in this Honor Roll of their county, this book' is dedicated; But more especially do we dedicate our work TO OUR HONORED DEAD; they died that we might live; they have given even unto the Supreme Gift to our Nation, to you and to me; no greater love hath any man than these; and if this Honor Roll of their county shall help to keep green the memory of these TWENTY SIX, whether they rest in the little cemetery of their own home town, or whether they lie where they fell at the.Marne or in the Argonne, our labor shall not have been in vain.. ": 4 Tk *i^y> ^. iP T e g r::: j -' g:^___: _ ... z 7, `".3 Q"Y!, l ,, w ",I I/ 11 —. p", y,-, 1"(" I I 'I-,'.. r, -1-111, ''I -1,, I, i, I, I o1,,, H.aII ( i l! r' ', It ) GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING I. _4 -_ -=.....-A, se _ 1 -...... I.: b1 -...v —... -- --- - _ -,-,, -. A - w,_w.@>A COPYRIGHT BY CLINEDINST I ki ) —~-;- il 9" V, B'1 ' ~I it ( ~" ~K" 'j : 1I~ s/ii 3;.v~ _ ~ L~{~&({K WY'~~," 4. 1'~ I L= CIQ - - --- I i i; or ) 9j:~ W t\,8' (I" (ifR 1 v~'. ef. I2 I r>V:f m, ^ i ( i n,% If%,~* TARSH/T AT FERDINTANI) FUCH 0PYRIGH1T - C i^ A' 2 "I/\ L.) o. 3ii LIVINGSTON'S ROLL OF HONOR ABRAMS ALLEN Avis BRIMLEY COOLEY DEVEREAUX GLENN HAAS HARDY HENDRICKSON HiICKS fhULL KING LEIGHTON McKINLEY MACKINDER OWENS ROBERTS RORABACHIER, ROSE SKUTT TANNER THOMPSON TIFFANY WASHBURN WATSON "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." 1 1 i i i i i x_~:r THE ROLL OF HONOR [For a List of Abbreviations used herein, See Page 2.The Editor.] FLOYD HOWARD ABRAMS USA-(1) Pvt Co D Students Army Trng Corps; b 14 Mar 1898 Deerfield; Son of Frank and Ella (Rummell) Abrams; Ent serv 1 Oct 1918 E Lansing; Sent to Mich Agri Coil; Died 24 Oct 1918 at E Lansing; Buried at Deerfield Center. LEON ELLSWORTH ALLEN USA-(2) Cpl Co A 120 MG Bn 32 Div; b 15 July 1.888 Flushing Mich; Son of John H and Ida (North) Allen; Ent serv 12 June 1917 at Pontiac; Sent to Ft Brady Sault Ste Marie, to Camp McArthur Waco Tex; Prom Cpl 5 Nov 1917; Overseas Mar 8 1918; Fought at Chateau Thierry; Killed 4 Aug at Chateau Thierry; Buried in France. JOHN AVIS USM-(3) Pvt Co 76 6 Marines 2 Div; b 30 May 1891 in Genoa the son of James and Mary (Japperson) Avis; Married Jennie Lewis; They have one daughter Clara born 1918; Ent serv 4 Dec 1915 in Detroit; Sent to the Marine Bks at Philadelphia Pa, later trsf to Port Royal S C, then to Sayville Long Is N Y; He was sent overseas with the 6 Marines 12 Aug 1918 and was in action in St Mihiel, ChampagneMarne and Meuse-Argonne Off; Went over the top five times and was killed the fifth time over in Argonne Forest 1 Nov 1918; He is buried in American Cemetery Chartices Marne France. WILLIAM EDWARD BRIMLEY USA ---(4 Pvt Co C 114 Inf 29 Div; b 22 Aug 1897 in Antrim Mich; Son of George and Flora Belle (Dunckel) Brimley; Ent serv 1 Apr 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas June 15 1918; Fought at Argonne Forest; Killed Oct 12 1918 in Argonne Forest his first battle; Recommended for bravery; Buried in France. JESSE BARTON COOLEY USA-(5) Pvt Co E 126 Inf 32 Div; b 31 Aug 1896 at Milford; Son of William and Frances Cooley; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, later to Cp McArthur Waco Tex; Overseas 23 Feb 1918; Fought at Alsace-Lorraine, Chateau Thierry; Killed in action at Chateau Thierry 2 Aug 1918; Buried in France. 12 THE ROLL OF HONOR CORNELIUS J. DEVEREAUX USA-(1) Cpl Co B 30 Eng; b 10 June 1886 at Hartland; Son of John and Ellen (Lyons) Devereaux; Ent serv 21 Nov 1917 at Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks 0, later to Cp American Univ Wash D C; Overseas Jan 1918; Wounded 9 Aug 1918 in rt ear severely with shrapnel; Died 11 Aug in Evac Hosp 7 from gas infection; Buried in France. JAY TAYLOR GLENN USA-(2) Sergt Co F 126 Inf 32 Div; b 8 July 1889 at Unadilla; Son of Emory and Nellie (Taylor) Glenn; Ent serv 15 May 1915 from Ingham Co; Sent to Cp Ferris Grayling; Served on the Mexican Border from July 1916 to Feb 1917; He was called to Federal Serv July 1917; Sailed overseas 14 Feb 1918; Died 3 Aug 1918 near Fismes France; Buried in France. JOSEPH VINCENT HAAS USA-(3) Pvt MG Co 6 Div; b 15 Sept 1895 in Conway; Son of Joseph Anthony and Veronica (Simmedinger) Haas; Ent serv 1 Apr 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, then to Cp McArthur Waco Tex; Overseas 20 July 1918; Fought at Meuse-Argonne; Killed in action 14 Oct 1918; Buried in American Cemetery Commune of Cunel Madeline Farm Meuse France. HAROLD WILSON HARDY USA-(4) 2 Lieut Co E 388 Inf 97 Div; b 5 Mar 1896 in Oceola; Son of Royal C and Frances (Rumsey) Hardy; Ent serv 17 July 1917 at Lansing; Sent to Columbus Bks, later to Cp Pke Off Trng School; Coins 2 Lieut; Assigned to 6 Prov Co Cp Lee; In comd of Co 50 13 Prov Recruit Bn at Cp Lee; In comd Co B 19 Bn Inf Repl; Trsf to Cp Cody N M Co I 388 Inf 97 Div; Died 9 Nov 1918 at Howell; Buried in Howell Cemetery. JOHN HENDRICKSON USA Pvt Co G 64 Inf; b 23 Aug 1893; mother, Sophia H Johnson, C B Marvin was his foster-father; Ent serv 11 May 1918 at Detroit; Was sent to Columbus Bks 0; Then joined the 64 Inf at Cp MacArthur Tex; Sailed overseas in Sept 1918; Died 2 Oct 1918 of measles and pneumonia at Dijon France; Is buried at Cote d'Or, Dijon France. (No photo in existence.) EARL EDWIN HICKS —CAN EX FORCES-(5) Pvt in Inf of the 47 Canadian Div; b 4 July 1895 at Woodstock Can; Son of Richard and Mary Hicks; Husband of Lillian (Johnson) Hicks; Ent serv at Pontiac 9 Jan 1918 and sailed overseas a wk later; in England sta at Cp Whittlett with Can trps; Fought at Chateau Thierry near which he was killed in action 8 Sept 1918; Buried in France. 13,[ THE ROLL OF HONOR CLARENCE ALEXANDER HULL USA-(1) Pvt Co B 4 Bn 160 Depot Brig; b 14 Dec 1894 at Hamburg; Son of Charles E and Louisa Hull; Ent serv 29 Aug 1918 at Ann Arbor; Sent to Cp Custer; Died 1 Oct 1918 at Cp Custer of Influenza; Buried in Hamburg Mich. EMMETT LEE KING USA-(2) Cpl Troop C 2 Cav; b 7 Sept 1888 at Hamburg; Son of Isaac and Ella (Mcintyre) King; Ent serv July 1916 in the CA; Sent to Jefferson Bks Mo; to Fort Du Pont Dela in Oct, to Fort Meyer Va Troop C 2 Cav; Prom to Pvt 1 C1 to Cpl; Nearly 20 mo serv; 8 Mar 1918 while on parade his ankle was broken by his falling horse; Sent to Walter Reed Hosp; Died 18 Mar 1918 of pneumonia; Sent with military escort to Gregory Mich; Buried in Wrights Cemetery Unadilla. RAYMOND LEIGHTON USA —(3) Despatch Rider; b 1896 Delta Co Mich; Son of Henry Leighton; Lived 5 yrs in family of B F Gartrelle Hamburg; Ent serv Nov 1917 at Carnegie Pa; Sent to Cp Lee Va; Was in France but a few days when he was killed in a motorcycle accident while carrying a despatch; Buried in France. WILLIAM McKINLEY USA — (4) Pvt 3 Co Students Army Trng Corps; b Sept 5 1898 in Deerfield of Thomas and Rosella (Glaspie) McKinley; Ent serv 15 Oct 1918; Sent to Univ of Mich Ann Arbor; Died 1 Nov 1918 in the Univ of Mich Hosp of influenza; Buried in Deerfield Center Cemetery. JOSEPH MACKINDER USA-(5) Pvt Co I 31 Inf M N G; b 26 Feb 1883 in Unadilla; Son of James D and Sarah (Franks) Mackinder; Ent serv June 1 1917 at Detroit; Sent to Cp Ferris Grayling, later to Cp McArthur Waco Tex; 31 Mich became the 126 Inf; Trsf to 128 Inf 32 Div and sent overseas 16 Feb 1918; Killed in action in St Mihiel Drive 10 Sept 1918; Buried in France. 14 THE ROLL OF HONOR JAMES GORDON OWENS USA —(1) Cpl 60 Balloon Co; b 5 Sept 1893; Son of Fred and Wilda (Higgins) Owens Ionia Mich; Sent to Line 158 Sec D Kelley Field No 1 San Antonio Tex; Trsf to 327 Aero Sqdn Kelley Field No 12, then to 62 Balloon Co Ft Omaha Neb, later to 60 Balloon Co; Died; Buried at Ionia Mich. ALBERT LAVERNE ROBERTS USA-(2) Pvt 47 Inf 4 Div; b 2 Dec 1893 in Marion; Son of Albert and Mary Roberts; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Camp Custer, to Camp Greene N C; Overseas 15 May 1918; Trsf from 338 Inf 85 Div to the 4 Div; Fought at Chateau Thierry; Killed in action 30 July 1918; Buried in France. CLARE W. RORABACHER USA-(3) Pvt Co E 126 Inf 32 Div; b 28 Sept 1896 Green Oak; Son of Charles M and Mable (Ferris) Rorabacher; Ent serv 19 June 1916 at Ann Arbor in Co I 31 Mich Inf; Served 8 mo on the Mexican Border 1916-17; Called to Federal Serv 15 July 1917; Sent to Cp McArthur Tex; Sailed overseas 26 Feb 1918; In battles Alsace Sector, Aisne-Marne, OiseAisne, Meuse-Argonne; Killed in action in Argonne Forest 26 Oct 1918; Buried in France. ORSON A. ROSE USA —(4) Pvt Co A 125 Inf 32 Div; b 4 Nov 1890 Elney Mich; Son of Luther and Eliza (Livermore) Rose; Ent serv 15 July 1917 Detroit in Co A 31 Mich NG in which his brother Oscar Dan Rose had served more than a year; Sent to Cp Ferris Grayling, then to Cp McArthur Waco Tex; The 31 became the 125 Inf of the 32 Div Oct 1 1917; Sailed overseas 10 Feb 1918; The two brothers fought side by side in the four battles of Alsace Sector, Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne, Meuse-Argonne until Orson was killed in action 10 Oct 1918 in Argonne Forest; Buried in France. RAY THOMPSON USA —(5) Pvt Co G 28 Inf 4 Div; b 3 June 1894 near Haslett Park Ingham Co; Son of Mr and Mrs Samuel W Thompson; Lived in this county since the age of 8; Ent serv 28 Apr 1918 at Howell; Was sent to Cp Custer to Co I 338 Inf 85 Div; Sailed overseas 25 July 1918; Was trsf Aug 21 to 28 Inf 4 Div; Fought in St Mihiel Drive and Meuse-Argonne Off; Killed in action in Argonne Forest 12 Oct 1918; Buried in France. 15 THE ROLL OF HONOR RAY SKUTT USA & USN-(1) Seaman 2 cl Great Lakes Trng Sta; b 26 Nov 1897 Ashley Gratiot Co; Son of George and Sarah (Loree) Skutt; Husband of Vera (Dana) Skutt; Made his home with his grandmother Mrs Mary Loree since 4 mo old; Enlisted in the Army 26 Apr 1917 at Lansing the first boy to go from Fowlerville; Sent to Columbus Bks O; Trsf to Troop M 2 Cav at Ft Ethan Allan Vt; Disch as Pvt 23 Sept 1917 on SCD for tuberculosis; Enlisted in Navy 14 May 1918 Detroit; Sent to Great Lakes to Co 5, Cp Luce as Seaman 2 cl; Died 26 Sept 1918 at Great Lakes of Influenza; Is buried in Greenwood Cemetery Fowlerville. CLEVE M. TANNER USN-(2) Fireman 3 cl Great Lakes Trng Sta; b 15 Apr 1886 Fowlerville; Son of Marshall and Rhoda (Lewis) Tanner; Enlisted 14 May 1918 at Detroit; Sent to Great Lakes, to Cps Farragut, Perry, Paul Jones; In Co 5 2 Bn; Asked for trsf for overseas duty; Trsf from Seaman 2 cl to Fireman 3 cl; Died 25 Sept 1918 at Great Lakes of Influenza; Is buried in Greenwood Cemetery Fowlerville. DUGRANGE JOHN TIFFANY USA-(3) Pvt Hosp Corps; b 3 June 1899, Jamesville N Y of Franklin and Christine (Harding) Tiffany Lawrence; Sent to Columbus Bks O; Assigned to Medical Corps; Sent to Washington Medical School; Sent to Fort Meyer Va, where he died 18 Jan 1918 of acute pneumonia; Buried in Howell Cemetery. CHARLES WASHBURN II, USA —(4) Pvt Co E 126 Inf 32 Div; b 18 Nov 1894 Howell; Son of George and Mary (Mangles) Washburn; Ent the serv 5 Sept 1917, Howell; Sent to Cp Custer in the first group of drafted men from Livingston Co; Assigned to Co M 338 Inf 85 Div; Trsf to Co E 126 Inf 32 Div; Sent to Cp McArthur Tex; Overseas 14 Feb 1918; in battles of Alsace Sector, Chateau-Thierry, Aisne-Marne Off, Soissons; Killed in action 2 Sept 1918 near Soissons probably; Buried on the battlefield (Location: on a Soissons 1-20,000 Map, coordinates: 303-4 and 178-9). JOHN DOUGLAS WATSON USA-(5) Pvt Co 16 Section A SATC; b 9 Nov 1898 in Unadilla; Son of Albert and Mina M (Pyper) Watson; Ent the serv 1 Oct 1918; Sent to the Univ of Mich at Ann Arbor; Died of pneumonia 24 Oct 1918 Ann Arbor; Buried in Unadilla. To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods. -Macauley, "Lays of Ancient Rome." 16 II ARMY EDWIN B. WINANS Brigadier General Commanding the 64th Infantry Brigade 32nd Division I Photo by U. S. Signal Corps.] Born, 31 October, 1869, Hamburg, Michigan; son of Governor Edwin B. and Elizabeth (Galloway) Winans; husband of Edith May (Auman) Winans; father of Katherine Winans, 1894, and Elizabeth Winans, 1901. Entered West Point Military Academy, New York, 15 June, 1887. Promotions:2nd Lieut 5th Cavalry 11 June 1887. 1st Lieut 4th Cavalry 30 April 1898. Major 34th Michigan Volunteer Infantry 15 May-26 November 1898. Captain 4th Cavalry 2 February 1901. Major 2 September 1914. Lieut Colonel 3rd Cavalry 2 February 1917. Colonel 15 August 1917. Brigadier General 26 June 1918. Campaigns Participated in:War with Spain-Santiago Campaign. Philippine Insurrection. China Relief Expedition. Punitive Expedition to Mexico. War with Germany-three major offensives: Aisne-Marne Offensive. Oise-Aisne Offensive. Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Overseas Record, War with Germany: General Staff College Langres, France, 5 December 1917-25 February 1918. On the General Staff, Service of Supply, Tours, 1 March-31 March 1918. Commanding Officer, Pontaneezan Barracks, Brest, 12 April-15 May 1918. Colonel, commanding 6th Infantry, i5 May-15 July 1918. Brigadier General, commanding 64th Infantry Brigade, 32nd Division, 16 July 1918-5 May 1919. Decorations: Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal (USA); Officer of the Legion of Honor (France); The Croix de Guerre (France) with two palms. 18 EDWIN B. WINANS Brigadier General 19 GEORGE BURT LAKE Lieutenant-Colonel, Medical Corps Camp Surgeon of Camp Grant, Illinois [Photo by Ludwig Studio, Howell.] Born, 26 November, 1880, Topeka, Kansas; son of George B. and Helen (Marsh) Lake; husband of Mary Lee (Blossom) Lake; father of Helen Lee B. Lake, 1908, and George Burt Lake, Jr., 1911. Training:-Univ of Mich 1898-1901; Doctor of Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1902; Asst Surgeon of the Mexican Central Railroad Mexico, 1902-4; in civil practice, Wolcottville, Ind, 1904-10. Commissioned 1st Lieut Medical Corps, Wolcottville, Ind, 2 July 1910; graduated Army Medical School 1911; ordered to duty on Mexican border in spring and summer of 1911, transferred to Fort Sheridan, Ill, as a base; placed on detached service. Served in Philippines Mar 1913 to Oct 1915; in Moro Campaign on Island of Sulu 1913; Promoted Capt Medical Corps 1914; ordered to US and stationed at Fort Oglethorpe Ga for 4 mo; transferred to Mexican border as Asst Surgeon 11 Calvary; selected as surgeon of picked squadron under Major House (later Major-General) under special orders to pursue and capture Villa (Pershing Punitive Expedition 1916); assigned to surgical service at Base Hosp 2 Fort Bliss Tex; transferred to Eagle Pass Tex commanding Ambulance Co 7. Promoted Major Medical Corps July 1917; transferred to Fort Clark Tex where organized and commanded Field Hospital 27; outfit sailed overseas while Major Lake was convalescing from operation; back to duty Jan 1918 and for 6 mo was Post and Camp Surgeon at Fort Clark Tex. Promoted Lieut Colonel Medical Corps Jan 1918; was Camp Surgeon Camp Grant Ill July 1918-April 1919; then ordered to Fort Benj Harrison as Commanding Officer General Ilosp 25, April-July 1919; then assigned to surgical service, Walter Reed Hospital Washington D C; in Oct 1919 ordered to surgical service General Hospital 6, Fort McPherson Ga; where stationed at date (31 December 1919). 20 C" 0 GEORGE B. LAKE Lieutenant Colonfel 21 THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY [The photographs of The Boys of Livingston County are arranged in groups according to their township —from Conway, Cohoctah, Deerfield, etc., on the first pages to Putnam, Hamburg and Green THERON W. ROGERS USN-(1) Mach Mate 1 cl Aviation; b 15 July 1895 Conway of Willard J and Emma (Worden) Rogers; Ent scrv 1 Feb 1918 Detroit; Sent to USN Trng Sta Charleston S C; Trsf Mt Pleasant S C, then Cp Bennett Pensacola Fla; Qualified sharpshooter; Passed aerial gunnery school; Disch 22 Mar 1919 Pensacola Fla. CLYDE GLENN HICKEY USA-(2) Pvt Casual Co C; b 23 Aug 1896 Conway of Edward and Elvia Hickey; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Cp Colt Pa; Overseas Oct 9 1918; Disch 12 May 1919. OSCAR DAN ROSE USA-(3) Sergt Co A 125 Inf 32 Div; b 10 Jan 1893 Thompsonville of Luther and Eliza (Livermore) Rose; Ent serv 19 June 1916 Detroit; Mexican Border serv 1916-17; Trained at Waco Tex; Overseas 14 mo; Battles Alsace Sector, Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne, Meuse-Argonne; Army of Occupation; Disch 21 May 1919 Custer; died 4 Mar 1920 at Howell. DEWEY ROSE USA-(4) Pvt Btry C 59 Anti-Aircraft Btry; b 5 Apr 1899 of Charles and Mertie Rose; Sent to Cp Eustis Va; Disch 21 Dec 1918 Cp Eustis Va. ARCHIE E. DUNCAN USA-(5) Pvt Co I 160 Depot Brigade; b 8 Sept 1886 Conway of John and Anna (Raymer) Duncan; Ent serv 30 Aug 1918 at Ingham County; Sent to Cp Custer where he was disch 26 Nov 1918. ARTHUR D. WILLIAMS USA-(6) Pvt Co M 77 Inf 14 Div; b 16 Dec 1894 Handy of Andrew L and Prudence (Switz) Williams; Ent serv 22 July 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 14 Jan 1919 Custer. RlUSSELL J. LOZO USA-(7) Pvt 14 Aero Sqdn; b 8 Mar 1899 Bay County; Son of John Lozo; Ent serv 19 Oct 1918 San Diego Calif; Sent to Rockwell Field Calif; Disch 6 June 1919 Cp Custer. RAY E. SHERWOOD USA-(8) Pvt Co B 14 Amm Trn; b 25 Oct 1886 Conway of Tunis and Sarah (Lang) Sherwood; Ent serv 22 July 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; McCooks Field O; Testing Aeroplanes Cork Aviation Field Dayton 0; Disch 7 Feb 1919. HOWARD E. GEER USA-(9) Pvt Co M 126 Inf 32 Div; b 26 Jan 1891 Oak Grove of Frank and Alta (Maynard) Geer; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf to 126 Inf at Cp McArthur; Trsf to 128 Inf; Overseas 12 mo; In battles Alsace Sector, Aisne-Marne, OiseAisne, Meuse-Argonne; Wounded in left eye and left leg by high explosive shell Argonne Forest; Disch 14 May 1919 Fort Sheridan Hosp Ill. ANDREW LINQUIST USA-(10) Pvt 119 FA 32 Div; b 22 July 1893 Besemer Mich; Guardian R D Knapp; Ent serv 16 July 1917 Lansing; Sent to Grayling, then Waco Tex; Overseas 14 mo; Battles Alsace Sector, Aisne-Marne, Soissons, Meuse-Argonne; Army of Occupation; Disch 22 May 1919 Custer. Oak on the last pages. This arrangement is not absolute, due to the late arrival of many photographs.-The Editor.] [For a List of Abbreviations used herein, see Page 2.] JOHN LINQUIST USA-(11) Pvt 1 cl Co B 340 Inf 85 Div; b 10 Sept 1893 Sweden; Son of Matt Linquist; Ent serv 29 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 13 mo; Trsf to Co E 4 Inf 3 Div; In action St Mihiel, MeuseArgonne; Army of Occupation; Disch 2 Sept 1919 Cp Grant. MATRTIE J. BRITTON USA-(12) Pvt Co B 42 MG Bn; b 16 Mar 1897 Webberville; Son of Mrs Cora Harris; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer to 14 Div; Disch 28 Jan 1919 Cp Custer. FRED J. WILLIAMS USN ---(13) Seaman 2 cl Naval Torpedo Station Newport R I; b 22 May 1897 Handy of Andrew and Prudence (Switz) Williams; Ent serv 25 July 1918 Detroit; Sent to Great Lakes; Trsf to Naval Torpedo Station Newport R I; Released 5 Feb 1919 Newport. HARTWELL BIGOLOW USN-(14) Seaman USS Frederick; b 18 Apr 1889 of Allen and Calista Bigolow; Ent serv 10 Dec 1917; Sent to Great Lakes, then Brooklyn Navy Yds; USS Frederick 8 mo; Crossed 6 times; Ship credited with sinking 2 German submarines 16 June 1918; Discl 14 Jan 1919. PERCY D. HINCHEY USA-(15) Cpl Co G 338 Inf 85 Div; b 7 June 1890 Pinckney of George B and Mary (Doane) Hinchey; Ent serv 27 Apr 1918 Corunna; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 13 mo; Trsf Co F 59 Inf 4 Div on Metz Front; Army of Occupation 8 mo, through Luxemburg to Germany; Disch 8 Aug 1919 Cp Sherman. P. J. WIESEN USM-(16) B 3 Nov 1896; Ent serv spring 1919 and still in serv. DANIEL RICHMOND USA-(17) Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 29 Feb 1896 Howell Twp of Russell and Millie (Farrell) Richmond; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 9 mo; Sta at Recloses and Toul; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. THEODORE G. HOAG USA-(18) Pvt 1 cl 10 FS Bn; b 22 June 1895 of Albert and Delia (Gilbert) Hoag; Husband of Helen (Webb) Hoag; Ent serv 8 Apr 1917 Jackson; Sent to Columbus Bks, then Ft Leavenworth; Cp Alfred Vail N J; Overseas 14 mo; Wounded severely at Verdun; Trsf to 33 Serv Co S C; 409 Telegraph Bn; 34 Serv Co S C; Disch 24 Feb 1919 Custer. FRITZ KUNDE USA-(19) Cpl Co A 40 MG Bn 14 Div; b 26 May 1897 Howell Twp; Son of Herman Kunde; Husband of Pauline (Bessert) Kunde; Ent serv 2 Sept 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 28 Jan 1919 Custer. CLYDE A. BERRY USA-(20) Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 2 Jan 1890 Handy of Anson and Mary (Manning) Berry; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf to Supply Co 340 Inf; Overseas 9 mo; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. 22 _r" a B pii r e i-~ n~~ xli.~-9:" k lk~, n' "sgi i rc 3 4 ZB %t:;-.~:s" i Snf i k kp j I. iZ -ios-I n f iB"" O t:i ~ i;k Z i I~ a a ^-t~ sp*l i 1 1 9~ -f *Bph ~ r "" iX I, iii u i j i ~v i ~ ' a ik t r ":~i i i d j.I: U I "-:: ~-~: % ~f]B THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY CLYDE JOHNSON USA-(1) Wagoner Btry C 13 FA 4 Div; b 14 Sept 1885 Osceola Co of Isaac and Angelina (Vaughn) Johnson; Ent serv 14 May 1917 Denver Col; Sent to Ft Bliss, Cp Logan; Trsf from 5 FA to 13 FA; Overseas 14 mo; Battles Aisne-Marne, Vesle, St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Army of Occupation; Disch 6 Aug 1919 Cp Sherman 0. CECIL L. WRIGGLESWORTH USA —(2) Pvt Btry D 12 FA 2 Div; b 26 Aug 1898 Cohoctah of Richard and Edna (Lewis) Wrigglesworth; Ent serv 17 Apr 1917 Owosso; Sent to Ft Myer Va, Ft Constitution N H; Overseas 20 mo; Fought at Verdun, Chateau Thierry Def, Aisne-Marne, St Mihiel; Gassed, wounded 21 Sept; Disch 24 April 1919 Custer. VERN N. RICHESON USA-(3) Capt Med Corps 103 Inf; b 29 June 1889 Cohoctah of Noah F and Nellie (Vandercook) Richeson; Husband of Bertha (Weinburg) Richeson; Ent serv 15 Aug 1917; Sent to Ft Riley Kans, Cp Logan Ill; Overseas 11 mo; Med Dept at Prison Cp Eu France; Fought at Verdun, Somme, Chateau Thierry, MeuseArgonne; Army of Occupation Luxemburg; Disch 18 June 1919. HOWARD A. TESCH USA —(4) Pvt Btry A 119 FA 32 Div; b 3 Mar 1891 Fowlerville of William and Emma (Weiss) Tesch; Ent serv 14 June 1917 Lansing; Sent to Cps Iloague, Ferris. McArthur: Overseas 16 mo; Trsf Btry A 146 FA; Fought at Champaign-Marne Def, Aisne-Marne Off, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Wounded at Luhys Aug 7 1918; Ridge Runner and Y M C A worker; Disch 27 June 1919 Custer. CECIL RATHBUN USA-(5) Cpl Co D 338 Inf 85 Div; h 16 Nov 1895 Deerfield son of Mrs Ella Rathbun; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Mills; Overseas 12 mo; Trsf Co E 39 Inf 4 Div; Prom Cpl; Disch 14 Aug 1919. HERALD BURNETT USA-(6) Sergt Co C 26 Inf 1 Div; b 4 July 1896 Oak Grove of Frank and Martha (Lee) Burnett; Ent serv 15 April 1917; Joined the "Fighting First"; Battles Cantigny, Aisne-Marne, St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Wounded at Marne River 20 July 1918; Army of Occupation; In triumphal reviews with Pershing in New York and Washington Sept 1919; Disch Oct 1919 Washington D C. RAYMOND D. COOK USA-(7) Pvt SATC MAC; b 23 July 1898 Cohoctah of Dewitt and Ida Cook; Ent serv 1 Oct 1918; Sent to E Lansing; Disch 15 Dec 1918. FLOYD L. SMITH USN-(8) Fireman USS Plattsburg; b 14 Mar 1893 Allegan Co of John Philip and Josephine (Loew) Smith; Ent serv 12 Dec 1917 Detroit; Sent to Gt Lakes Trng Sta; Trsf USS Missouri and Plattsburg; Prom Engineman 2 cl; 11 trips across; Disch 8 Oct 1919 Pittsburg Pa. HAROLD B. MUNRO USN-(9) Seaman 2 cl Hampton Roads Va; b 5 Jan 1897 Flushing Mich of Bedent and Lucina (Loop) Munro; Ent serv 4 June 1918 Gt Lakes, 11; at Camps Paul Jones. Decatur, Perry; Became Fireman; Trsf to postoffice dept Hampton Roads; Placed on Inactive Status 16 July 1919. ROY A. KEESLER USA-(10) Pvt Btry A 119 FA 32 Div; b 7 Aug 1891 Paulding Co O of Nelson and Jane (Shaffer) Keesler; Ent serv 14 May 1917 Lansing; Sent to Grayling and Waco Tex; Overseas 11 mo; Trsf to La Bate School, Btry B 56 CAC; Battles Aisne-Marne, Mleuse-Argonne; Disch 4 Feb 1919 Custer. LYLE J. WORDEN USA-(11) Sergt 13 Amb Co 82 Div; b 30 Jan 1895 Fowlerville of W J and Laura Worden; Ent serv 3 June 1917 Columbus O; Sent to Ft Harrison Ind, Cp Grant Ill; Prom Sergt; Trsf QM Dept; Disch 9 May 1919 Cp Grant. JOHN R. CRAVEN USA-(12) Cpl Co D 32 Mich Inf; b 3 Jan 1891 Ovid Mich of Clarence W and Lucy (West) Craven; Husband of Clydia (Cummings) Craven; Ent serv 24 June 1916 at Kalamazoo Mich; Sent to Cp Ferris Co C 26 Inf NG; Overseas 13 mo; Trsf 128 Inf Co M, to Co D 340 Inf 85 Div; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. SAMUEL A. TELLER USA-(13) Pvt Field Hosp 22 Div; b 24 July 1898 Cohoctah of Edward and Ella (Smith) Teller; Ent serv 27 Apr 1916; Sent to Columbus Bks O; Overseas 10 mo; Fought at Meuse-Argonne Off; In serv till 28 Apr 1920; With 7 San Trn Cp Funston Kans. ROWLAND GRAHAM HIBBARD USA-(14) Master Electrician 1 Aero Co; b 3 July 1893 Cohoctah of George Jr and Myrta (Graham) Hibbard; Ent serv 15 Apr 1917; Sent to Kelley Field, Wright Field, Mitchell Field; Prom Cpl, Sergt, Master Electrician; Overseas 16 mo; Disch 25 Apr 1919 Ft D A Russell Wyo. CLARENCE H. WENDEL USA-(15) Pvt Aero Sqdn; b 25 Oct 1895 Delta Center Mich of William and Rosa (Aldrich) Wendel; Husband of Ruth (Keeran) Wendel; Ent serv 9 Mar 1917 Detroit; Sent to Kelley Field Tex; Air Serv Trng School St Paul Minn; Disch 3 Jan 1919 Custer. WILLIAM F. HENNESSY USA —(16) Ensign Great Lakes Ill; b 15 Feb 1890 Chicago Ill of Josephine Hennessy; Ent serv June 1917 at Ft Sheridan Trng Cp; Prom Ensign; Sta at Cps Dewey and Perry as Trng Off; Disch Mar 1919. HOWARD B. NEWBERRY USA-(17) Pvt 1 cl Co D 338 Inf 85 Div; b 1 Oct 1895 Saginaw Co of Edward and Emma Newberry; Ent serv 20 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf to Co K 39 Inf 4 Div at Cp Green; Overseas May 1918; Battles Aisne-Marne, St Mihie/, Meuse -Argonne; Army of Occupation. CHARLES R. NICHOLSON USA-(18) Pvt 99 Base Hosp; b 30 Jan 1897 Handy of James and Ida (Coffee) Nicholson; Ent serv 27 Aug 1918 Royal Oak; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 8 mo; Disch 26 June 1919 Custer. SPENCER E. MACOMBER USA-(19) Pvt Base Hosp 99 14 Div; b 17 Mar 1891 Burns Mich; son of Charles Macomber and wife; Ent serv 28 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 8 mo; Disch 26 June 1919 Custer. LAVERNE JOSEPH TUNNARD USN-(20) Chief Yeoman; b 2 Sept 1887 losco of Wm and Alice (Risdon) Tunnard; Husband of Marie Tunnard; Ent serv 23 July 1908 at Detroit; 18 mo in Detroit, to Boston, USS W Virginia, USS Cincinnati, USS Saratoga, USS Helena; Still in service. 24 \ J0000000000000 ff~,-00-3::::-:;0 _::::S:::t0;\;:;::;:::-00:i:_:-:i:i. 0:;9:0: 2:0 BOYS:: f k; L!N'lSTO N '..'.. " ~'';, i'i::a;:..... '.#_;....v- %,..'"_ s-20? ': ~['.~. ~.::;:,, rIDE t,0 11 i-:i:i!ii! i i i i Q~.d _0F ~~~ ~C! Xi j|, 1_f _/tS\}:^ -1>^., >~ I - I z / 101, THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY ALVA J. RIDER USA-(1) Pvt Co C 304 Bn 7 Brig; b 10 May 1892 Cohoctah of Simeon P and Altha (Doolittle) Rider; Ent serv 26 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Cp Colt; Overseas 12 mo; Trsf to Military Police and did duty in France, England, Ireland, Italy; Army of Occupation in Germany 4 mo; Disch 21 Sept 1919 Cp Dix. CHARLES BAILEY NORTON USA-(2) 1 Lieut 669 Aero Sqdn; b 7 Jan 1886 Marion of Horace W and Hattie (Bailey) Norton; Husband of Catherine Moss (Brauer) Norton; Father of Charles Bailey Jr; Ent serv 13 Sept 1917 New York City; Sent to Kelley Field; Comms 1 Lieut and in command of Rookie Camp; Brooks Field Asst Supply Off; Kelley Field Comd 669 Aero Sqdn; Gen Sup D Fairfield O; Air Serv Depot Garden City; Disch 16 Dec 1918 Garden City. LAUREN D. HART USN-(3) Ensign USS Bali (Holland); b 8 May 1896 Marion of Irving and Carlie (Carr) Hart; Ent serv 15 Feb 1918 Ann Arbor; Grad of Pellam Bay N Y; Sent to USS Bali; Across 3 times; Trsf to Submarine Chaser 182 as Commdg Off June 5 1919 in the Mine Sweeping Div in the North Sea; Released 19 Dec 1919; Awarded Dist Serv Medal of the Navy. WILBUR WESLEY WARNER USA —(4) 2 Lieut Co C 323 Field Sig Bn; b 29 Oct 1894 Byron Mich of Lee S and Emma (Langton) Warner; Ent serv 20 July 1917 Detroit; Sent to Great Lakes, to Cp Funston Kans; Prom Cpl, Sergt, 2 Lieut; Trsf to Co A 214 Sig Bn; Disch 25 Jan 1919. ANDREW ANDERSON USA-(5) Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 19 June 1892 Marion of Rasmus and Marie (Christoferson) Anderson; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Mills; Overseas 9 mo; Sta at Recloses and Nantes; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. LYMAN E. EAGER CANADIAN EF-(6) Pvt Eng; b 23 Feb 1877 Oceola of William B and Laura (Walker) Eager; Husband of Gertie (Franklin) Eager; Father of Sarah, Helen and W G; Ent serv 17 July 1918; Sent to St Johns Ca. Amhurst N S; Overseas 12 mo; Trsf to Hosp Staff in Eng; On ship returning wounded soldiers; Disch 25 Sept 1919 Montreal Ca. JOHN A. WHITE CANADIAN EF-(7), Pvt 1 Bn Inf; b July 1881 Linzie Ont; Foster mother Mrs James Cansfield; Ent serv 1 Nov 1917 London Ca; Overseas 14 Dec 1917; In battle of Vimy Ridge; Wounded by MG; Disch 21 Jan 1919; served in National Guard until Nov 1917. FRANK KINDRICK WHITE USA-(8) Pvt SATC; b 12 Sept 1899 Marion of John D and Theresa White; Ent serv 15 Oct 1918; Sent to Univ of Mich; Disch 21 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. FOSTER HARVEY WHITE USA-(9) Cpl Co D 338 Inf 85 Div; b 12 Dec 1893 Byron Mich; Son of Harvey J White; Husband of Emma White; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 21 July 1918; Prom Cpl; Trsf to Machine Gun Co; Disch 11 Mar 1919. JOSEPH FRANCIS McGIVNEY USA-(10) Pvt Base Hosp 99; b 2 Mar 1895 Howell of Thomas and Catherine (McKinney) McGivney; Ent serv 27 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer to Base Hosp; Trsf to Base Hosp 99 for overseas duty; Overseas 8 mo; Stationed at Hyeres France; Disch 26 June 1919 Custer. DONALD MAYCOCK USA-(11) Pvt Hdq Co 338 Inf 85 Div; b 3 Mar 1895 of Harry J and Carrie (Mitchell) Maycock; Ent serv 28 April 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Mills; Overseas 5 mo; Disch 6 Jan 1919 Custer. LAWRENCE EUGENE DUNNING USA —(12) Pvt SATC; b 29 Jan 1900 Dowagiac Mich of Grant and Lucy (Naylor) Dunning; Ent serv 12 Oct 1918 Howell; Sent to Alma College; Disch 26 Nov 1918 Alma. HARRY E. HOWE USN-(13) Seaman 1 cl USS Zuiderdijk; b 31 July 1895 Howell of George F and Nora (Hart) Howe; Ent serv Dec 1917 Detroit; Sent to Great Lakes; USS Zuiderdijk; 7 trips; Disch 9 Sept 1919. GLENN HOWARD CHUBB USN-(14) Machinists Mate 1 cl; b 29 Oct 1895 Howell of William G and Ella (Murninghan) Chubb; Ent serv 14 Dec 1917 Detroit; Sent to Great Lakes Naval Aero Dept; to Cape May N J; Prom MM 2 cl MM 1 cl; Disch 1 Dec 1918. DWIGHT EDWARD EULER USA-(15) Pvt Co F 103 Eng 28 Div; b 22 Feb 1891 losco of John and Emma (Sleaford) Euler; Ent serv 31 Mar 1913 Howetl; Sent to Cp Custer Humphreys Cp Dix; Overseas 11 mo; Fought in advance on Ourcq River, Vesle River, Meuse Argonne Off, Thiaucourt Sector; Disch 24 May 1919 Custer. CASS F. SMOCK USA-(16) Radio Sergt Hdq Army Art 1 Army; b 4 Mar 1897 Marion of Frank and Ida (Fishbeck) Smock; Ent serv 15 Oct 1915 Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks; 118 Co CA Ft Monroe Va, to Ft Hunt Va 47 Co; 1917 to 8 Prov Regt became 53 Art (RR); Overseas 19 mo; 3 mo schooling Mailly, prom Radio Sergt; Trsf Tel Opr Hdq Army Art; Disch May 1919. JAMES B. CRAWFORD USA-(17) Pvt Co C 310 Eng 85 Div; b 31 Jan 1894 Cohoctah of Orin R and Olivia (Salmon) Crawford; Husband of Leona R (Nash) Crawford; Father of Gale LaVerne; Ent serv 9 July 1917 Detroit; Sent to Cp Custer, Camp Pike, Trsf Co A 312 Eng 87 Div; 312 Eng Train; Motor Transport Co 87 Div; Disch 1 Nov 1918 on SCD. GLENN T. CLEMENTS USA-(18) Pvt 1 cl Co I 32 Inf 81 Div; b 13 Mar 1891 Marion, of John E and Ellen (Twilley) Clements; Ent serv 1 April 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer to San Squad 58; Overseas 11 mo; Stationed at Sancerre area; 310 Eng as San inspector; Trsf Co I 322 Inf 81 Div; Disch 28 June 1919 Custer. LEE M. DELONG USA-(19) Cpl Co I 128 Inf 32 Div; b 7 May 1887 Remus Mich; Son of Mrs. J Sniff; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer to Cp McArthur; Trsf to 32 Div; Overseas 14 mo; in battles of Aisne-Marne, OiseAisne, Meuse-Argonne; Disch 22 May 1919 Custer. LEE HORWOOD USA-(20) Pvt Btry F 127 FA; b 10 Feb 1894 Howell of William and Mary (Mitchell) Horwood; Ent serv 15 June 1918 Ann Arbor; Sent to Univ of Mich Training Det; To Cp Cody, Ft Sill; Overseas 4 mo; Disch 17 Jan 1919 Custer. 56 I: J.::.. ~,; 1 xll ' AI 4?:. jb iJ: /y.. ~~,-I: L 57 THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY WALTER MILET USA —(1) Pvt Co M 77 Inf 14 Div; b 24 July 1894 Genoa of John and Katherine (Stafford) Milet; Ent serv 22 July 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 28 Jan 1919 Custer. HAROLD IVAN SHARPE USA-(2) Sergt QM Utilities Det Washington D C; b 19 Mai 1894 Genoa of Fred and Jennie (Phillips) Sharpe; Ent serv 27 Nov 1917 Detroit; Sent to Cp Meiggs; Trsf from Repair Man to Base Hosp; Prom Cpl, Sergt (Fireman); Disch 28 May 1919 Cp Merritt N J. ANDREW SHARPE USM-(3) Cpl 1 Field Signal Bn Co C 2 Div; b 14 Apr 1895 McBain Mich of Fred and Jennie (Phillips) Sharpe; Ent serv 28 July 1917 Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks, to Ft Leavenworth Kas, Cp Alfred Vail N J; Prom Cpl; Trsf to 322 FS Bn; Overseas 20 mo; Fought at Verdun, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Woods, Meuse-Argonne, Marne; With 6 Marines 2 Div 9 mo; Army of Occupation; Disch 9 Aug 1919. LOUIS R. PLESS USA-(4) Pvt SATC; b 4 June ]896 Genoa of Fred E and Elizabeth (Grostic) Pless; Ent serv 10 Oct 1918 Lansing Mich; Sent to MAC; Disch 21 Dec 1918 E Lansing. HARLOW A. PLESS USA-(5) Pvt SATC; b 23 Oct 1899 Genoa of Fred E. and Elizabeth (Grostic) Pless; Ent serv 15 Oct 1918 Howell; Sent to Univ of Mich; Disch 10 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. CHARLES F. FICK, USA-(6) Wagoner Supply Co 126 Inf 32 Div; b 29 Jan 1890 Genoa of Charles and Louise (Ellenholz) Fick; Ent serv 17 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, McArthur; Overseas 15 mo; Fought at Alsace, AisneMarne, Oise-Aisne, Meuse-Argonne; Disch 23 May 1919 Custer. FRANK GROSTIC, JR., USA —(7) Pvt Btry D 110 FA 29 Div; b 15 May 1892 Genoa of Frank and Anna Grostic; Ent serv 1 April 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Cp Gordon, Cp McClellan; Overseas 11 mo; Fought at Alsace Lorraine; Disch 26 May 1919. HARRY D. KELLOGG USA-(8) Wagoner Hdq Det 310 Eng 85 Div; b 26 Nov 1889 Genoa of George and Emma (Brainerd) Kellogg; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 11 mo; Prom Wagoner; Fought at St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Disch 3 July 1919 Custer. RUSSELL E. KELLOGG USA-(9) Pvt SATC; b 27 Mar 1892 Genoa of George and Emma (Brainerd) Kellogg; Ent serv 15 Oct 1918 Ann Arbor; Sent to Univ of Mich; Disch 10 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. EZRA R. GEARHART USA-(10) Pvt Btry B 56 Amm Trn; b 29 June 1898 Vermontville Mich of Samuel and Rosa (Booth) Gearhart; Husband of Emma Gearkart; Ent serv 23 Oct 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Eustis Va; Disch 15 Nov 1918 Was trsf 35 Art. WILLIAM C. GEARHART USA-(11) Pvt 1 cl Co M 338 Inf 85 Div; b 22 Feb 1894 Marion of Samuel E and Rosa (Booth) Gearhart; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Cp Merritt; Trsf 307 Guard Fire Co; Disch 31 Dec 1918. ROBERT E. GRAETZ USA-(12) Pvt SATC; b 14 Jan 1898 Jenera O of Rev Robert and Mary (Kannenberg) Graetz; Ent serv 9 Oct 1918 Columbus; Sent to Univ of Columbus 0; Acting Sergt; Disch 14 Dec 1918 Columbus. ELROY T. SPICER USA-(13) Wagoner 256 Amb Co 14 Div; b 17 June 1888 Ash Monroe Co Mich of P J and Lizzie (Johnson) Spicer; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Prom Wagoner; Disch 23 Dec 1918. STANTON B. RICKETT USA —(14) Pvt Co A 3 Bn; b 6 June 1900 Dowagiac Mich George and Edith (Bryant) Rickett; Ent serv Sept 1918 Grandville O; Sent to Denison Univ, SATC; Disch 20 Dec 1918. of 11 to WILLIAM HARRY PROCTER USA-(15) Sergt Co D 338 Inf 85 Div; b 5 Feb 1892 New York England of Harry and Rebecca (Bell) Procter; Husband of Gladys Louise (Wright) Procter; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Prom Cpl, Sergt; Overseas 9 mo; Fought between Meuse and Moselle Rivers; Disch 11 Apr 1919 Custer. HAROLD PHILIP CONRAD USA-(16) Pvt SATC; b 31 Jan 1897 Brighton of Henry and Ida (Gungnuss) Conrad; Ent serv 1 Oct 1918; Sent to Mich Agri College E Lansing; Disch 21 Dec 1918 MAC. LAWRENCE LEITMEIER USA-(17) Pvt SATC Signal Corps; b 27 May 1898 Albany N Y of Joseph and Sarah (Jay) Leitmeier; Ent serv 15 Oct 1918 Howell; Sent to Univ of Mich; Disch 15 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. FRED S. REIMANN USA-(18) Sergt Co B 310 Eng (Motor Transport); 1890 Genoa of Frank C and Ada (Hoyt) Ent serv 20 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent Cp Cp Grant Ill; Disch 19 May 1919. b 17 Oct Reimann; Custer, to CHARLES S. REIMANN USA —(19) Wagoner Btry D 330 FA 85 Div; b 4 Oct 1887 Oceola of Frank C and Ada (Hoyt) Reimann; Ent serv 27 April 1917 Detroit; S(nt to Cp Custer; Overseas 11 mo; Disch 27 Apr 1919. LYLE J. HENDEE USA-(20) Pvt Co B 56 Amm Trn Coast Art; b 4 July 1897 Marion of Wirt and Rose (Nash) Hendee; Husband of Hazel (Merrill) Hendee; Ent serv 22 Oct 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Eustis Va; Disch 23 Dec 1918 Custer. 58 /x L 59 THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY HERBERT VERNON KOURT USA —(1) Pvt 335 Tank Corps; b 20 April 1896 Green Oak of William and Matilda Kourt; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Colt Pa; Overseas 5 mo; Trsf Casual Co C Tank Corps; Disch 23 May 1919 Custer. FRANK CARL KOURT USA-(2) Pvt Co M 77 Inf 14 Div; b 18 Mar 1892 Green Oak of William and Matilda Kourt; Ent serv 22 July 1918; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 18 Jan 1919 Custer. GUY CLARK SMITH USM —(3) Pvt 24 Co USM; b 27 Aug 1882 Highland of James B and Mary Anna Smith; Ent serv 9 Dec 1906; Sent to USS Columbia; Foreign Service Panama 12 mo; Panama E F; Hon Disch 7 Aug 1909; Re-enlisted USM Corps 12 Aug 1912; Prom Cpl 1915, Sergt 1915; Foreign Service Nicaraugua 1912; Hon Disch 5 Aug 1916; Re-enlisted 17 June 1918 as Pvt USM; Sent to Quantico Va, Cuba; Still in Service; Medals Australian, Nicarauguan and Foreign Wars. CARL H. STURBERG USA-(4) Pvt Co B 330 MG Bn; b 30 Nov 1895 Brighton of Fred and Mary Sturberg; Ent serv 29 April 1918 Ann Arbor; Sent to Cp Custer, McArthur Tex; Trsf to Co A Central Inf Officers Trng Cp 1 Bn; Served in Judge Advocate's Office; Disch 25 Nov 1918 Cp McArthur. FORD W. STURBERG USA-(5) Pvt SATC; b 12 Feb 1898 Brighton of William and Helen Sturberg; Ent serv 1 Oct 1918; Sent to Colgate University, Hamilton N Y; Disch 18 Dec 1919. KYLE J. PINNEY USA-(6) 2 Lieut Air Service; b 28 May 1895 Kiehl Wis of Harvey W and Mary Jane Pinney; Husband of Wava E (Graham) Pinney; Father of Harvey Wm 1917; Ent serv 1 June 1917 Chicago; Sent to Ft Sheridan, Kelley Field; Carlstrom Field Fla; Asst Stage Commdr; Prom 2 Lieut AS RMA; Dorr Field Fla. Gerstner Field La; Off in Chg of Accuracy Stage; Barron Field Tex; Gosport Instructor; Post Field Ft Sill Okla; Photo Pilot; Det Serv Okla City Okla; Disch 17 July 1919 Ft Sill. CLARK H. MITCHELL USA-(7) 1 Lieut 15 Regt; b 11 July 1897 lonia of J G and Jessie Mitchell; Grad West Point Military Academy June 12 1918 as 1 Lieut; Sent to Ft Sill Okla, Jay, Gov Is N Y, Ft Hamilton; Still in Service. OSCAR HERBERT REED USA-(8) Pvt 1 cl Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 7 Mar 1893 South Lyon of David E and Lucile (Blundell) Reed; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Prom 1 cl Pvt; Disch 22 Jan 1919 Custer. DAVID F. REED USA-(9) Sergt 332 FA 86 Div; b 23 Oct 1894 South Lyon of David E and Lucy (Blundell) Reed; Ent serv 13 June 1917 Columbus Bks; Sent to Ft Benjamin Harrison Ind, Grant Ill, Robinson Wis; Prom Cpl, Sergt; Overseas 5 mo; Disch 28 Feb 1919 Cp Grant. DAVID W. HAYWOOD USA-(10) Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 11 Feb 1888 Brighton of George and Jennie Haywood; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; In France 8 mo Allied Tank Instruction Center; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. MEREDITH LaRUE PITKIN USA-(11) Pvt SATC; b 31 July 1899 Shelby Mich of Ernest and Charity Ellen (Kincaid) Pitkin; Ent serv 1 Oct 1919; Sent to Ypsilanti; Disch 13 Dec 1918 Mich State Normal. CHARLES LEON SEGER USN-(12) 1 cl Musician; b 30 Nov 1896 Brighton of Wilbur C and Grace (Southwell) Seger; Ent serv 3 June 1918 Detroit; Sent to Cp Logan, to Great Lakes; Released 26 Jan 1919. HARRY B. CHAMBERLAIN USA-(13) Cpl Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 31 Oct 1889 Wiley Ville W Va of Jefferson B and Tude (Postlethwait) Chamberlain; Husband of Caroline (Albrecht) Chamberlain; Ent serv May 27 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Prom Cpl; Overseas 9 mo; Disch 22 Apr 1919. HENRY MARTYN TUNIS, JR., USA-(14) 1 Lieut RMA; b 28 Mar 1894 Brighton of Henry Martyn and Phoebe Tunis; Ent serv 26 Nov 1917 Chicago; Sent to Champaign Ill, Scott Field Ill; Prom 1 Lieut and trsf to Reserves Dec 1919 Scott Field. HARRY BIRKENSTOCK USN-(15) Cook 2 cl USS Lake Helen; b 5 Dec 1895 Genoa of Joseph and Amelia (Dingier) Birkenstock; Ent serv 19 Oct 1917 Detroit; Sent to Great Lakes, to Boston Mass, to Commissary School; Assigned to Freighter Lake Helen; Spent 9 mo cruising between England and France; Disch 14 Aug 1919 Great Lakes. CHARLES CONELEY USA-(16) Sergt 14 Amb Co; b 5 April 1897 Brighton of Frank and Effie Coneley; Ent serv 2 June 1918 Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks 0, to Ft Oglethorpe Ga; Overseas 10 mo; Prom Sergt; Disch 24 June 1919. EARL T. WOOD USA —(17) Wagoner Hdq Co 120 MG Bn 32 Div; b 14 Sept 1892 N Brighton of Charles and Ella Wood; Ent serv 5 Sept 1917 Pontiac; Sent to Cp Custer, to McArthur Tex; Overseas 15 mo; Fought at Cierges, Chateau Thierry, Soissons, Argonne; Cited for bravery at Cierges by Gen Pershing; Disch 21 May 1919. ARTHUR KARKER USA-(18) Sergt Med Dept; b 23 Aug 1886 Williamston of Frank and Lillie (Riggs) Karker; Ent serv 28 June 1917 Columbus O; Sent to Columbus Bks, to Post Hosp Army Res Depot; Supply Sergt Hosp and Med Det; Disch 17 Feb 1919 Columbus Bks. HARVEY S. JACOBS USA-(19) Pvt Tank Corps; b 11 July 1897 Brighton of Seth B and Edna (Dykes) Jacobs; Ent serv 3 Oct 1918 Detroit; Sent to Cp Colt Pa; Overseas 10 mo; Trsf Toulouse Univ; Disch 1 Aug 1919 Chilicothe O. ROBERT A. CALDWELL USA-(20) Pvt Co C 3 Amb Co 85 Div; b 29 Oct 1893 Standish Mich of Robert and Jessie (West) Caldwell; Husband of Margaret Caldwell; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, to Mills; Overseas 9 mo Amb Duty for 32 Div; Sta at Toul Sector; Under shell fire 3 days; Disch 26 April 1919 Custer. 60 61 THE BO\S OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY RAY L. PHILLIPS USA-(1) Pvt Field Art; b 1 Mar 1897, son of Robert and Amelia Phillips; Ent serv 23 Oct 1918; Sent to Cp Eustis Va; Disch 23 Nov 1918 Eustis. JOSEPH LEON BERGIN USA-(2) Pvt Co B 316 Eng 91 Div; b 1 Mar 1892 Brighton, son of H H Bergin; Ent serv 1 Sept 1917 Laton Cal; Sent to Cp Lewis Wash; Overseas 10 mo; Trsf Hdq Dept; In action at St Mihiel, Argonne; In Hosp 3 mo with rheumatism; Disch 6 May 1919. MAX R. BAETCKE USA-(3) Capt Co B 125 Inf 32 Div; L 3 Nov 1839 Brighton of Rudolph E and Elizabeth Baetcke; Husband of Josephine Drucilla (Jones) Baetcke; Ent serv NG Detroit 24 Apr 1914; Sent to Cp Grayling El Paso Tex, Waco Tex, Cp McArthur; Overseas 7 mo; Prom 2 Lieut 1916, 1 Lieut 1917, Capt 1918; Fought at Alsace, Chateau Thierry; Served one mo with French at Vaquois; Trsf to 100 Div Cp Bowie Tex as Instructor; Disch 15 Apr 1919; Served on Mexican Border 1916. JOHN SEABURN WEST USA-(4) Pvt Btry F 104 FA 27 Div; b 17 Aug 1894 Standish Mich of Thomas and Josephine (Reed) West; Ent serv 1 Apr 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Gordon; Overseas 19 mo; Fought at Somme Off, Ypres-Lys Off; Disch 6 May 1919. CHARLES EDMUND ROSS LISA-(5) Pvt Unassigned; b 8 Jan 1899 Norwood of Otto and Anna Ross (Arnold); Ent serv 23 Oct 1918; Sent to Cp Eustis Va; Disch Nov 19 1918 Eustis. JOHN STRICK YMCA-(6) Secretary YMCA; b 21 Jan 1873 England of William and Lou (James) Strick; 1 year Foreign Service on Loraine, St Mihiel, Argonne-Meuse Fronts; Was Sergt Co C 34 Mich Vol in Spanish-American War; Disch 26 Apr 1919; Husband of Louise Lizette (Hicks) Strick. FRED N. SHIPPEY USA-(7) Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 22 Jan 1892 Cleveland 0; Adopted by Seymour S Kellogg; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 9 mo; Sta at Recloses and Toul; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. EDWARD McQUADE USA-(8) Pvt Co I Adv Ord Depot 2 Div; b 20 Mar 1892 Brighton of George and Margaret McQuade; Ent serv 13 Dec 1917 Detroit; Sent to Cp Grant Ill, Cp Sheridan Ala; Overseas 18 mo; in Hosp at Dijon; Trsf to 5 Co ORS Det; Disch 29 July 1919 Cp Sherman 0. FRANCIS P. McQUADE USA-(9) Pvt Co F 23 Eng 2 Div; b 15 Apr 1898 Brighton of George and Margaret McQuade; Ent serv 7 Feb 1918; Sent to Cp Grant Ill, Cp Laurel Md; Overseas 19 mo; Trsf Dispatch Carrier; Fought in Argonne Forest; Disch 16 Aug 1919 Cp Sherman O. RUSSELL CONWELL SHANNON USA-(10) Pvt 104 Field Sig Bn 29 Div; b 8 Sept 1893 Brighton of William H and Emily (Usher) Shannon; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Gordon Ga, McClellan Ala; Overseas 12 mo; Defence of Center Sector Haute-Alsace, Meuse-Argonne Off; Gassed 18 Oct Malleville Farm; Disch 31 Oct 1919 Custer. GEORGE ALEXANDER SHANNON USA-(11) Sergt Co B 306 Bn Tank Corps; b 6 July 1890 Kalamazoo of William and Emily (Usher) Shannon; Ent serv 18 Nov 1917 Detroit; Sent to Cp Custer, Cp Mead; Trsf from 329 FA to 1 Heavy Tank Bn 65 Eng; to Co B 302 Bn TC, became 306 Bn; Disch 8 Apr 1919 Custer. R. FRANCIS BLATCHFORD USA-(12) Pvt 119 FA 32 Div; b 1 Aug 1896 Brighton of Frank M and Alma (Baetcke) Blatchford; Ent serv 3 Aug 1917 Detroit; Sent to Cp Sleeper Co B 31 Mich, to Cp McArthur Tex; Overseas 15 mo; Fought at Toui Sector, Alsace Sector, Aisne-Marne Off, Oise-Aisne Off, Meuse-Argonne Off; Disch 16 May 1919 Custer. CLYDE PHILIP SWEET USA-(13) Pvt 1 cl Co D 7 Amm Trn 7 Div; b 16 June 1889 Sheboygan of Philip and Rosa (Frey) Sweet; Ent serv 11 May 1918; Sent to Columbus Bks to Cp McArthur Tex; Overseas 10 mo; Disch 1 July 1919. ARTHUR BURCHARD BITTEN-(14) Pvt SATC 3 Co 1 Regt; b 9 Aug 1898 Brighton of Wm R and Mary L (Boylan) Bitten; Ent serv 15 Oct 1918 at Ann Arbor; Signal Corps; Disch 13 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. LOUIS E. KOURT USA-(15) Pvt 302 25 Bn; b 12 Sept 1893 Green Oak of William and Otelia (Mont) Kourt; Ent serv 5 Sept 1918; Sent to Syracuse N Y; to Port Newark; Disch 29 Dec 1918 Custer. CHARLES MARTELL DUNCAN USA-(16) Pvt 338 Inf 85 Div; b 25 Dec 1893 Winchester Mich of Robert and Clara (Kreig) Duncan; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Greene N C Ft Niagara N Y, Cp Raritan N J, Dix N J; Disch 21 Jan 1919. CLAUD H. ELLIOTT USA-(17) Cpl 841 Motor Truck Co; b 11 Oct 1895 Marion of Geo. P. Elliott and wife; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 27 Feb 1918; Prom Cpl; Fought at Somme Def, Aisne Def, Montdidier and Noyon Def, Champagne-Marne Def, Aisne-Marne Off, Somme Off Aug, Oise-Aisne Off, Somme Off Oct; Disch 26 June 1919; Member of Res Mallet. EZRA W. MILLER USA-(18) Bugler Btry A 42 FA 14 Div; b 16 May 1896 Genoa of Ezra D and Martha (Spears) Miller; Husband of Lulu May (Lernen) Miller; Ent serv Aug 25 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Prom Bugler; Disch 20 Sept 1919 Custer. GERALD H. CASE USA-(19) Wagoner Co E 24 Eng; b 8 Apr 1895 Brighton of Bartaw I and Blanche E Case; Ent serv 24 Oct 1917 Detroit; Sent to Camp Dix Co E 26 Eng; Trsf Co E 24 Eng; Overseas 16 mo; Fought at St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, Toul Sector; Prom Wagoner; Disch 10 June 1919. JAMES A. SEGER USA-(20) Pvt Co K Ord Det; b 23 Nov 1880 Brighton of Wm H and Julia (Adams) Seger; Ent serv 12 Dec 1917 Detroit; Sent to Cp Grant Ill, to Cp Hancock Ga, Raritan N J; Disch 13 Feb 1919 Cp Grant; Husband of Minnie (Wilson) Seger; Father of 9 children, 62 I BI i :lb C)lgi, ":^*:a; ""xZ Q ).6W.":": i ~bt%!:I Y. d 4 ga rs;, x; Q II3 i ~t; "' " r..:64q Iil; r' t$ i;i 4f 21:% - i1 ~,- Y, -~ r~ '"~ X"B"sBb THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY EARJ PI Cr 2( GLi, Pvt Ger Hus 191; M; Calif. -(1) -AC; b 5 May 1894 Freemont Purcey; Ent serv 8 Nov 1917 Ft Hamilton N Y; Overseas Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Disch 0.,TT USA-(2) Field Calif; b 1 Sept 1886,d Alma (Hartman) Collett; lly) Collett; Ent serv 28 Oct lockwell Field Calif to Sqdn 19 Rockwell Field San Diego CLAUDE COLLETT USA-(3) 1 Lieut Co B 356 Inf 89 Div; b 26 Nov 1885 Calumet Mich of Caleb K and Alma (Hartman) Collett; Husband of Lillian Collett; Ent serv 14 May 1917; Sent to Cp Funston Ka, Ft D A Russell Wyo; Prom Pvt to 2 Lieut Aug 1917, 1 Lieut Aug 1918; Organized Cos E and F 210 Eng 10 Div at Cp Funston Kans; As Cp Disch Off discharged 89 and 35 Div Cp Funston; Post Adjt at Ft D A Russell; Disch 22 Oct 1919 Ft Russell. GEORGE ERIC SINGER USA-(4) Pvt Co D 24 Eng; b 29 Oct 1893 Freeport Pa of Jacob Daniel and Carrie (Norton) Singer; Husband of Majelle E (Smith) Singer; Father of Thomas Eric; Ent serv 24 Oct 1917 Columbus O; Sent to Cp Dix N J; Disch Nov 9 1917 Cp Dix SCD. HERMAN CHARLES HOFF USA-(5) Cpl 160 DB; b 1 July 1887 Saginaw Mich of Mr and Mrs Charles Hoff; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; McArthur Tex; Trsf 32 Div; Overseas 9 mo; Prom Cpl; Fought at Alsace, Chateau Thierry, Oise-Aisne; Wounded 28 Aug at Juvigny; Disch 7 July 1919. BEN B. BIDWELL USA-(6) Cpl Troop E 16 Cav; b 5 July 1895 Brighton of George A and Mary (Bline) Bidwell; Ent serv 6 May 1917 Lansing; Sta at Brownsville Tex during the war; Still in service at Brownsville. WILLIAM J. FELT USA-(7) 2 Lieut 2 Co US War Prison Bks Guard; b 7 Apr 1888 Detroit; Son of William Felt; Husband of Norma Felt; Served in US Regulars 10 years; Reenlisted 16 Jan as Sergt in 11 Recruit Co GSI; Sent to Columbus 0, Ft Oglethorpe Ga, Shelby Miss; Disch 21 Jan 1919. CHARLES W. PALMER USA-(8) Sergt 422 Tel Bn 41 Div; b 13 Jan 1883 Millville N B Ca; Son of H B Palmer; Husband of Augusta (Baker) Palmer; Ent serv 7 Aug 1917 Detroit; Sent to Ft Wood N Y, Vail N J; Overseas 3 mo; Prom 1 Sergt; Disch 12 Feb 1919 Custer. JACK W. BELL USN-(9) Seaman USS Maui; b Detroit 1 May 1902 of A Charles and Hattie Bell; Ent serv Oct 1917 Detroit; Sent to Great Lakes; Prom Electrician; Still in service. CLIFFORD LEACH USN-(10) Navy; b 11 Feb 1900 Brighton; Son of Licious Leach; Ent serv Aug 1918; Sent to Great Lakes, Norfolk Va; Disch Mar 1919. ROBERT W. HODGE USA-(11) Pvt Btry A 119 FA 32 Div; b 23 Aug 1898 Brighton of William E and Mary (Schuldt) Hodge; Ent serv 23 June 1917 Lansing; Sent to Cp McArthur Tex; Overseas 14 mo; Fought at Marne Off, Juvigny, Meuse-Argonne; Gassed at Argonne Forest; Disch 15 May 1919 Custer. PETER JAMES LEITZ, JR. USA-(12) Pvt Co D 338 Inf 85 Div; b 29 Apr 1895 Brighton of Peter James and Lucile (Wilkes) Leitz; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf to Co B 163 Inf; to Co M 168 Inf 42 Div; Overseas 9 mo; Lorraine Sector, Champagne-Marne; Gassed July 15 and 28, 11 wks in Hosp; Disch 9 Apr 1919 Custer. ORWELL B. KRIEGER USA —(13) Pvt 147 Eng Co F; b 24 Mar 1897 Dormington O of Benjamin and Jennie (John) Krieger; Ent serv 1 Sept 1918 Bloomington Ind; Sent to Ind Univ, to Ft Benjamin Harrison Co L 5 Prov Bn; Disch 11 Dec 1918. HENRY WILTON USA-(14) Pvt Btry B 77 FA; b 6 Apr 1902 Brighton; Son of Leland and Inez Albro Merrihew; Ent serv 9 May 1917; Sent to Columbus Bks, Cp Ethan Allen Vt, Shelby Miss, Greene N C, Sherman; Disch 5 Aug 1919 Cp Sherman O. Enlisted under assumed name. Real name is Wm. Lloyd Merrihew. GEORGE HENRY HOLDERNESS USA-(15) Pvt Co D 338 Inf 85 Div; b 1 June 1892 Brighton of John and Bessie (Truscott) Holderness; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Cp Greene, Cp Mills; Trsf to Co A 39 Inf; 15 mo Overseas; Fought at Aisne-Marne, St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Disch 13 Aug 1919 Cp Sherman O. WILLIAM LEE WESTON USA-(16) 1 cl Pvt Btry B 5 FA 1 Div; b 22 Feb 1895 Homestead Mich of Stephen Allen and Nellie (Henderson) Weston Avery; Ent serv 28 May 1917 Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks O; Ft Bliss Tex; Overseas Aug 1917; Fought at Luneville in 1917, at St Mihiel, Cantigny Off, Soissons, St Mihiel Off, Argonne; Wounded at Soissons July 22 1918; Rejoined Btry at St Mihiel; Army of Occupation; Returned to US by Disability Board May 12 1918; Disch 20 Aug 1919 Ft Sheridan Conv Camp. GEO. L. PRIESTLEY USA-(17) Pvt SATC; b 7 June 1898 Brighton of George and Mary (Morgan) Priestley; Ent serv 15 Oct 1918 Flint; Sent to Univ of Mich Ann Arbor; Disch 13 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. FREDERICK K. JANKE USA-(18) Pvt Co 1 340 Inf 85 Div; b Detroit of Frederick and Eva (Zarski) Janke; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 9 mo; Sta at Pouillez and Toul; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. TREVOR D. RICKETT USA-(19) Pvt Co C 310 Field Sig Bn; b 2 June 1892 Marion of William Clark and Elizabeth Rickett; Ent serv 19 Apr 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 10 mo; Trsf 4 Army Corps; Fought at St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Disch 19 June 1919. ORLA MERRIHEW USA-(20) Cpl Co D 338 Inf 85 Div; b 8 Mar 1890 Brighton of L W and Inez Albro Merrihew; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, to Ft Bliss Tex, to Cp Dodge; Trsf QMMRS, Motor Truck Corps; Disch 22 May 1919. 64 boysi~~BB JBH~is~~gBelLIVINGSTON~sP 1~i COUNTY jae-; r:r i r/ -. I instab lit ' call, 65 THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY WILLIAM NATHANIEL BRALEY USA —(1) 1 Lieut Med Corps Amm Trn 14 Div; b 30 April 1886 Plainfield of Elmer N and Persis (Wood) Braley; Husband of Lucile E Braley; Ent serv 26 Sept 1918 Detroit; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 17 Jan 1919 Custer. CLEVE H. VAN BUREN USA-(2) Pvt Btry F 344 FA 90 Div; b 8 Nov 1886, losco of Elmer and Azieba (Cooper) Van Buren; Ent serv 17 Oct 1917 Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks; Overseas 12 mo; in action at Meuse Argonne, St Mihiel; Army of Occupation; Disch 25 June 1919. CHARLES D. WALKER USA-(3) Lieut 11 Inf 5 Div; b Aug 25 1885 Plainfield of James and Elizabeth M (Voegths) Walker; Ent serv 6 Oct 1917 San Francisco Cal; Sent to Gettysburg 61 Inf Green NC; Oglethorpe Officers Training School; Comms 2 Lieut; assigned 11 Inf 5 Div; Trsf 61 Inf 5 Div; 38 Inf 3 Div; Overseas 13 mo; Fought at St Mihiel, Meuse Argonne; Comms 1 Lieut; Army of Occupation, Luxemburg to Germany; Disch 16 June 1919 San Francisco. WILFRED JAMES McCLEAR USA-(4) Lieut ASSRA; b 28 Feb 1898 Gregory of Lawrence and Nellie McClear; Ent serv 16 Jan 1918 Ft Thomas Kans; Sent to Rich Field, Post Field, Ft Sill, Okla; Prom Lieut; Disch 3 Feb 1919. SOLON GIBSON USA-(5) Pvt Btry B 105 FA 27 Div; b 14 Mar 1888 Milford of John Andrew and Nettie B (Stobert) Gibson; Ent serv 3 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Cp Stewart Va; Overseas 9 mo; Fought at St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Disch 2 April 1919 Custer. KENNETH KUHN USA-(6) Pvt Hdq Co 338 Inf 85 Div; b 6 April 1890 Gregory of Mark E and Mary (Voegths) Kuhn; Ent serv 28 April 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf Hdq Co 168 Inf 42 Div; Overseas 10 mo; Disch 9 May 1919. CARL EMMERSON TOPPING USA-(7) Pvt Co 6 2 Bn SATC; b 6 June 1898 Plainfield of E L and Jessie Topping; Sent to Univ of Mich; Disch 11 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. PAUL W. KUHN USA-(8) Cpl 2 Cas Det Cp Custer; b 15 Aug 1895 Unadilla of Elda and Maggie (McClear) Kuhn; Ent serv 15 July 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf to Univ of Mich Ann Arbor; Disch 17 Jan 1919 Custer. GUY H. KUHN USA-(9) Cpl Co 5 Inf Centl Off Trng School; b 6 Oct 1893 Unadilla of Elda and Maggie (McClear) Kuhn; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 26 Nov 1918 Cp Grant. CARL M. ASELTINE USA-(10) Pvt Co 19 160 DB; b 11 Sept 1893 Mason of Frank and Hattie Ann (Beecher) Aseltine; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918; Sent to Cp Custer to Cp Gordon; Prom Mechanic, Inf Unassigned; Disch 20 Jan 1919 Custer. VERE F. WORDEN USA-(11) Pvt 125 Inf 32 Div; b 1 Sept 1894 Gregory of Frank A and Estelle (Chapman) Worden; Husband of Ella Rhea (Bloom) Worden; Ent serv 26 June 1916 31 Mich NG; Served 8 mo on Mexican border; Disch in March; Mobilized in July at Grayling, Cp Ferris; Sent to McArthur Texas; Disch 8 Mar 1918 SCD at Waco. WALLACE WESLEY CORSER USA-(12) Pvt Co F 328 FA 85 Div; b 3 May 1893 Parma, Mich of Walter A and Louisa (Winter) Corser; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, to Vancouver, Wash; Aero ASSO; Disch 15 Jan Army Hosp Hoquim Wash. CECIL D. RAINEY USA-(13) Pvt 1 cl Med Reserve Corps; b 10 July 1886 Unadilla of William Robert and Edith Olive (DuBois) Rainey; Ent serv 21 Dec 1917 Detroit; Called to Active serv 10 Oct 1918; Sent to Cp Crane Pa; Overseas 5 mo with Mobile Hosp Unit 100; Did Sanitary work in France; Disch 9 May 1919 Cp Sherman. CECIL CLARE KELLOGG USA-(14) Pvt 1 cl Btry A 119 FA 32 Div; b 9 Jan 1895 Wosthaven Ca of Fred and Nettie (Isham) Kellogg; Ent serv 11 June 1917 Lansing; Sent to Cp Hoag, Cp McArthur; Overseas 18 mo; Trsf Btry A 146 FA; Motor Transport Corps 417, Co 468; Fought at Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne; Wounded in rt leg and lft shoulder; Army of Occupation 6 mo; Disch 24 Oct 1919 Camp Dix N J. ROSS McGEE USA-(15) Pvt 1 cl Btry F 328 FA 85 Div; b 22 April 1896 Plainfield of W C McGee; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 9 mo; Fought at Toul Sector; Disch 21 April 1919 Custer. LEE JAMES TIPLADY USA-(16) Pvt Aero Sqdn Signal Corps; b 25 May 1889 Pinckney of Robert and Catherine (Laughlin) Tiplady; Ent serv 2 July 1918; Sent to Vancouver Bks then to Port Angeles, Puget Sound Wash; Disch 15 Jan 1919 Custer. ARLO WORDEN USA-(17) Pvt Co K 338 Inf 85 Div; b 17 Oct 1895 Gregory of Alonzo and Susie Worden; Ent serv 28 April 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 6 mo; Trsf Hdq Co 7 Inf 3 Div; Fought at St Mihiel, MeuseArgonne; Wounded at Argonne Forest; Disch 25 Feb 1919 Custer. ARCHIE E. ARNOLD USA-(18) Pvt 42 FA; b 23 Feb 1894 Unadilla of George and Minnie (Kirkland) Arnold; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 25 Oct 1918 SCD. Married Myra Kirkland Nov 1919. CLAIR ELMER CHIPMAN USA-(19) Wagoner Supply Co 340 Inf 85 Div; b 7 Oct 1894 losco of Elmer and Louise Chipman; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 9 mo; Sta at Coetquidan; Disch 22 April 1919 Custer. ANTHONY CROMER BURTON, JR. USA-(20) Pvt Co M 337 Inf; b 28 Feb 1894 Detroit of Anthony Cromer and Caroline (Jones) Burton; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf to Development Bn 160 DB as Mounted Orderly to Major McLogan; Disch 28 Nov 1918 Custer. 66 -: I v o 0:Y:: ';?:R -:~'...... ''~' /::-:: 7%:: [00 t M A 004;S K 1 f 0' 'sf /'X'"" "@*'3 'S-j ''~B' I' m:''! _/ 67 THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY MICHAEL LEO LEAVEY USA-(1) Cpl Co F 339 Inf 85 Div; b 5 Feb 1897 Dexter of Patrick and Susan Leavey; Ent serv 28 Apr 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Bullswater Eng; In Russia 11 mo; Fought at Sred Markrengha, Vistavka, Kitsa, left Bank Dwina R, Nyni Kitsa; Disch 12 July 1919. GEO WILLIAM LEAVEY USN —(2) 3 Mate Phm; b 1 Aug 1891 Dexter Mich of Patrick and Susan Leavey; Ent serv 4 Mar 1918 Tampa Fla; Sent to Key West Sanitation Office N Hosp Norfolk, to USS Kansas; Released 28 July 1919. WILLIAM FISK USA-(3) Major 359 Inf 90 Div; b 12 Aug 1887 Pinckney of Mr and Mrs Wm Fisk; Husband of Dot Fisk; Ent serv 18 Jan 1906 Ft Wright, then Ft Wm H Seward Alaska 3 yrs; Prom Cpl; Sent to Philippines 9 yrs; Corns 2 Lieut, 1 Lieut; Ft Travis Tex; Corns Capt; Overseas June 1918; Fought at St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Cited for bravery in action Nov 2, North of Villiers-devant-Dun; Cors Major; Army of Occupation in Germany; Still in service in Germany. CLAUDE F. MONKS USA-(4) Sergt 1 cl Aero Sqdn; b Putnam Twp of John and Zoa (Murphy) Monks; Ent serv 3 Aug 1917 Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks, Park Field, Millington Field; Disch 28 Mar 1919 Custer. MICHAEL J. ROCHE K. of C —(5) First Sergt Co M 35 Mich Vol Spanish-American War; K of C Secretary 1919 USS Olivia. LESTER LORENZO SWARTHOUT USA-(6) Pvt SATC; b 24 Sept 1899 Putnam of Silas E and Carrie (Herrington) Swarthout; Ent serv 1 Oct 1918 Ann Arbor; Sent to Univ of Mich; Disch 15 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. CLAUDE HENRY KENNEDY USA-(7) Sergt Co A 311 Eng 86 Div; b 8 Jan 1896 Bothwell Ga of William and Anna (Poole) Kennedy; Ent serv 15 June 1918 Ann Arbor, Univ of Mich Eng Trng Dept; Sent to Cp Grant; Overseas 9 mo; Disch 6 July 1919 Custer. PERCY HENRY MOWERS USA-(8) Pvt SATC; b 14 May 1898, son of Ida May Mowers; Ent serv 1 Oct 1918 Howell; Sent to Univ of Mich; Disch 18 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. AMBROSE HARRIS MURPHY USA-(9) Pvt SATC; b 12 Oct 1898 Pinckney of W E and Mary Murphy; Ent serv 1 Oct 1918 Ann Arbor; Sent to Univ of Mich; Disch 20 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. JOSEPH A. GREINER USA-(10) Pvt Motor Trans Corps; b 28 Apr 1896 Mt Clements Mich of George M Greiner; Ent serv 15 July 1918; Sent to Mich Agri Col Auto Trng Sec, To Holibird Md; Overseas 15 Oct 1918; Disch 10 June 1919. RICHARD A. GREINER USA ---(11) Sergt 1 cl 100 Base Hosp; b 14 Mar 1892, Mt. Clements of George M Greiner; Ent serv 29 Mar 1918; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 8 mo; Disch 21 July 1919. J. BERNARD McCLUSKEY USA-(12) 2 Lieut Statistical Dept; b 1895; son of James McCluskey; Husband of Jeanie Verzin; Ent serv 12 Nov 1917 Detroit; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 12 mo; Disch 24 May 1919 St Aignon France. WILLIAM FRANCIS EISELE USA —(13) Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 26 Mar 1895 losco of Frank and Emma Eisele; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Sta at Recloses and Toul, Overseas 9 mo; Disch 22 April 1919 Custer. NAIRN W. ALEXANDER USA —(14) Sergt 14 Machine Gun Bn 4 Div; b 7 Mar 1898 Detroit; Home with John R. and Beulah Martin; Husband of Theresa Alexander; Ent serv 12 June 1916; Sent to Cp Green NC; Overseas 17 mo; Prom Cpl Sergt; Fought at Aisne-Marne, St Mihiel, MeuseArgonne, wounded at Soissons and Argonne; Disch 15 Sept 1919 Cp Dix. EMMET FITZSIMMONS USA —(15) Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 8 Mar 1896 Pinckney of Peter and Mary Fitzsimmons; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 9 mo; Sta at Recloses and Pont-a-Mousson; Disch 22 April 1919 Custer. GEORGE T. FISK USA-(16) Pvt Machine Gun Co 338 Inf 85 Div; b 13 Feb 1896 Dexter Mich; son of James Fisk; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 12 mo; Trsf to 12 MG Bn 4 Div; Fought at Aisne-Marne Off, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Army of Occupation 8 mo; Disch 6 Aug 1919. CLYDE J. SIBLEY USA-(17) Pvt Co D 338 Inf 85 Div; b 28 Oct 1887 Springport Mich of Mr and Mrs H J Sibley; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 8 mo; Trsf Hdqrs Co 338 Inf Band; Disch 13 April 1919 Custer. PERCY MORTENSON USA-(18) Pvt Ordnance Det Camp Coetquidan France; b 18 Aug 1891 Pinckney of Nelson P and Lulu (White) Mortenson; Ent serv in Ordnance Corps Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks, O; Overseas 20 mo; Trsf to 1 Co Ord Repair Depot; Gun Repairing. ROY JAMES HICKS USA-(19) Pvt SATC; b 18 Feb 1897 Pinckney; Son of Bert Hicks; Ent serv 15 Aug 1918; Sent to Valparaiso, Ind; Disch 20 Dec 1918 Valparaiso Ind. ALBERT GEHRINGER USA-(20) Pvt Btry C 330 FA 85 Div; b 21 Jan 1896 Fowlerville of Adam and Mary (Lerg) Gehringer; Ent serv 21 June 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 9 mo; Disch 22 April 1919 Custer. 68 i~~: ,~;"` 'r;~ L c a r -rI ~ BI(BRi I s r:::46 1 a"~ iz, a -"P:i- tX*- a- i a aI` rLB I"~a r, ige8:::....;i;, ~i- a p~as fa. Y:id *-~:" *19 """8 5, rII.i r j~; :::::- 'a, ':i u c:::s: A r '":x~ - -? i\ Z, THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY _ -- CLIFFORD CULVER VANHORN USA-(1) Pvt Signal Corps; b 22 July 1896 Hamburg of Stephen and Carrie (Appleton) VanHorn; Husband of Beatrice (Hinckley) VanHorn; Ent serv 15 Aug 1918; Sent to Valparaiso Ind, Iowa City, Ia; Disch 25 Dec 1918 Iowa City Ia. LEE VANHORN USA-(2) Pvt SATC; b 27 Sept 1897 Hamburg of George and Nellie (Luce) VanHorn; Ent serv 1 Oct 1918 Howell; Sent to Univ of Mich at Ann Arbor; Disch 12 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. GLENN VANHORN USA-(3) Pvt 133 Aero Sqdn; b 8 April 1900 Hamburg of George and Nellie (Luce) VanHorn; Ent serv 24 Oct 1918; Sent to Rockwell Field, San Diego Cal; Disch 4 April 1919. ERWIN EARLE NICHOLAS USA-(4) Pvt Btry F 105 FA 27 Div; b 8 Sept 1893 Belle Oak of Andrew Jackson and Carrie Jane (Bristol) Nicholas; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 8 mo; in action at St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Disch 2 April 1919 Custer. OTTO KERN KELLENBERGER USA-(5) Pvt 14 Div Cp Custer; b 14 Oct 1894 in Huron Co Mich; Son of Henry Kellenberger of Pinckney; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 at Howell; Sent to Cp Custer to the 14 Div; Disch from Cp Custer. LESLIE E. BALL USA-(6) Cpl Co C 6 Amm Train; b 16 June 1894 Hamburg of Erwin and Carrie E. (Fisk) Ball; Ent serv 3 May 1918 Columbus Bks; Sent to Cp Wadsworth; Overseas 5 mo; Prom Cpl; Disch 16 April 1919. LELAND H. BALL USA-(7) 2 Lieut 816 Aero Sqdn; b 2 Mar 1891 Hamburg of Erwin and Carrie (Fisk) Ball; Ent serv 18 Jan 1918 Washington D C; Prom 2 Lieut; Disch 1 June 1919. ALGER JAMES HALL USA-(8) Sergt SOS Hdq Tours; b 30 Oct 1894 Putnam of Fred D and Jennie (Reason) Hall; Husband of Anna Gale (Treadway) Hall; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Custer to Btry F 328 FA 85 Div; Trsf to Co C Army Hdq Regt Cp Greene N C; Overseas 13 mo; located at SOS Hdq Tours; Disch 5 July 1919. LESTER DOCKING USA-(9) Pvt Co C' 57 Amm Train; b 17 June 1899 Laketown of John and Mary (Hubbard) Docking; Ent serv 23 Oct 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Eustis, Lee Hall Va; Btry C Anti-Aircraft; Disch 19 Dec 1918 Custer. CARL RICHTER USN-(10) Storekeeper USS Minnesota; b 10 Dec 1896 Hamburg of D J and Katherine Richter; Husband of Helen (Beck) Richter; Ent serv 10 Dec 1917 Detroit; Sent to Great Lakes to Phila Navy Yards; USS Minnesota; ship credited with sinking two enemy submarines; to Phila Navy Yards, Participated in quelling race riots in Philadelphia in June; Disch 16 Aug 1919. HENRY W. RICHTER USA-(11) Pvt 1 cl Base Hosp Minneola N Y; b 26 Dec 1888 Hamburg of D J and Katherine Richter; Ent serv 5 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Gordon Ga; Male Nurse 5 mo; Disch 24 Sept 1919 Cp Dix. KENNETH EARL DARROW USA-(12) Sergt Med Corps; b 14 Aug 1893 Pinckney Mich; Son of W B Darrow; Ent serv 31 March 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; In serv 17 mo at Cp Custer; Disch 20 Sept 1919 Custer. LESTER ALBERT BRENINGSTALL USA —(13) Pvt Btry B 60 CAC; b 18 Mar 1899 Petersburgh Mich of Frank C and Antonia Breningstall; Ent serv 6 Feb 1918 Jackson; Sent to Btry C 60 CAC; Trsf to Btry B; Overseas 9 mo; In action at St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Stationed at Pont-a-Mousson and Varenes; Disch 24 Feb 1919 Custer. BERNARD FOREST SMITH CANADIAN EF-(14) Pvt 100 Winnipeg Grenadiers; b 27 May 1898 Redford Mich of C J and Martha Smith; Ent serv July 1917 St Charles Winn Can; in England trsf to 18 Ca Res Bn; In France to 44 Ca Res Bn; wife Olive (Braurd) Smith; Disch 2 Feb 1919. GREGORY EDWARD McCLUSKEY USA-(15) Sergt Major 160 DB; b 14 Dec 1895 Hamburg; Son of John Edward and Ella (Stackable) McCluskey; Ent serv 1918; Sent to Cp Custer; Prom Sergt Major Hdq Co; Disch 29 Sept 1918; Army Field Clerk Hdq Co 95 Div Cp Sherman; Trsf to Gen Hdq AEF 12 Dec 1918; Overseas 9 mo; Trsf to Berlin for duty with United States Military Mission of the Interallied Commission on Repatriation of Prisoners of War; Disch 18 Sept 1919 Hoboken. DR. LIAM LEDWIDGE USA-(16) Born 18 May 1890 Unadilla; Son of William and Mary (Roche) Ledwidge; Ent serv 20 Dec 1917 at Ft Wayne Detroit in Medical Reserve Corps; Called to active duty 11 Oct 1918 Detroit; Disch 28 Nov 1918 Ft Wayne; Attended Detroit College of Medicine when not on duty. LAVERNE JOSEPH KENNEDY USA-(17) Pvt in Aviation; b 25 March 1899; Son of Nora Kennedy; Ent serv 17 Oct 1918 and was sent to Rockwood Field San Diego Cal; Disch soon after armistice. RAYMOND HARRIS USA-(18) Pvt SATC; b 13 Mar 1897 Pinckney of John M and Katherine Harris; Ent serv 5 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Valparaiso Univ Ind; Disch 20 Dec 1918. CLAYTON E. CARPENTER USA-(19) Pvt 328 FA; b 13 Mar 1890 Dexter Mich of Clarence and Emma (Gallagar) Carpenter; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trfs 16 Eng Provisional Btry 13 Eng R R; Overseas 13 mo; Fought at St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; Disch 7 May 1919. ROSCOE H. CAVELL USA-(20) Pvt Med Res; b 20 Jan 1898 Hamburg of William S and Lydia Gillmore Cavell; Husband of Mary K. 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HERMAN TESHKA USA-(2) Pvt Co E 126 Inf 32 Div; b 4 Mar 1891 Novi Mich of August and Amelia (Miller) Teshka; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer Co M 338 Inf 85 Div; Trsf to Co E 126 Inf 32 Div; Overseas 15 mo; Fought at Alsace, Aisne-Marne, Soissons, Meuse Argonne; Army of Occupation in Germany; Disch 23 May 1919 Custer. SHERMAN S. BEACH USN-(3) Machinist, High Power Radio Station, Cayey Porto Rico; b 21 Sept 1885 losco of Mansel B. Beach and Minnie (Van Gilder) Beach Worthington; Ent serv 13 Nov 1906 Detroit as Machinists Mate 2 cl; USS Denver, USS Maryland, USS Independence; Disch 10 Nov 1910; Re-enlisted Goat Isl Calif Mar 1911, Chief MM USS B-3; USS Quiros; High Power Radio Station at Cavite; April 1918 Bureau of Steam Eng, Radio Div Wash D C; Gen Electric Co, Erie Pa as inspector of Radio Machinery for High Power Radio Station, Cayey, Porto Rico; Prom Machinist; Sent to Radio Station Cayey Porto Rico; Still in service. HAROLD K. LEWIS USA-(4) Wagoner 256 Amb Co 14 Div; b 16 Nov 1895 Port Huron Mich of C C and Fannie (Knowles) Lewis; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 28 Jan 1919. LESTER BEATTIE USA-(5) Wagoner Mach Gun Co 7 Inf 2 Div; b 29 Mar 1898 Genoa of David and Emma (Arnold) Beattie; Ent serv 9 June 1917 Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks Cp Colt, Gettysburg Pa; Overseas 20 mo; Prom 1 cl Pvt; Cpl, Wagoner; Trsf to Co D 4 MG Bn, to Co B; Fought at Verdun Toul-Troyon sectors, Chatteau-Thierry, Soissons, Marne, Champagne, MeuseArgonne; Army of Occupation; Disch 14 Aug 1919; cited for bravery by Gen LaJeune. GUSTAVE G. BAETCKE USA-(6) Capt 467 Aero Sqdn; b 19 Sept 1884 Genoa of G J and Amelia F. Baetcke; Husband of Grace Baetcke; Ent serv 12 Sept 1917 Washington D C; Overseas Oct 28 1917 to 3 Mar 1919; Disch 19 Mar 1919. L. HAROLD HICKS USA —(7) 1 Lieut Motor Trans Co 405; b 28 Sept 1891 of Elugene and Alice Hicks; Husband of Julia Hicks: Ent serv 14 May 1917 Fort Sheridan Ill; Comms 2 Lieut QMC Aug 1917; Sent to Cp Custer, then Cp Johnston Fla; Comdg Motor Trans Co 405; Prom 1 Lieut Mar 1918; Trsf from QMC to MTC; Was Motor Trans Off for Cp Wadsworth S C Sept 1918 to Mar 1919; Trsf Fort Wayne Mich; Still in serv. MAX G. SWEITZER USA-(8) Mech 1 cl Motor Trans Corps; b 5 Oct 1898 Hamburg of Charles G and Prudence Sweitzer; Ent serv 22 Apr 1918 Detroit; Sent to Cp Shelby Miss, to Cp Logan Tex; Trsf from FA to QM Corps, to Motor Trans Co 677, to Serv Park Unit 372; Prom Cpl, Mech 1 cl; Disch 15 Apr 1919. FRANK JOSEPH MAAS USA-(9) Pvt 1 cl Amb Co 256 14 San Trn 14 Div: b 27 Nov 1895 Howell of Peter and Helen Maas; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer; Prom Bugler; Disch 27 Jan 1919 Custer. LEWIS E. LUEDER USA-(10) Pvt 1 cl 1 Prov Regt Casual Art; b 17 May 1887; Son of John P Lueder; Ent serv 13 Aug 1918; Overseas 8 mo; Disch 15 July 1919. CLEMENT D. RUSHLOW USA-(11) Sergt Co C 29 Inf 1 Prov Bn; b 24 June 1895 Sibley Mich of Columbus and Julia Rushlow; Ent serv 20 Sept 1919 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Cp Perry O; Prom Cpl Btry F 328 FA; Trsf Co C 29 Inf 1 Prov Bn; Prom Sergt; Disch 9 Apr 1919. JOHN JOSEPH FITZGERALD USA-(12) Pvt Co A 125 Inf 32 Div; b 26 Apr 1896 Webster Mich of Michael and Katherine (Burke) Fitzgerald; Ent serv 28 Apr 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 10 mo; In battles Argonne Forest, St Mihiel; Wounded slightly with shrapnel; Disch 20 May 1919 Custer. FRANK MICHAEL FITZGERALD USA —(13) Pvt Hdq Co Detch 169 Inf Brig; b 16 Jan 1892 Gains Mich of Michael and Katherine (Burke) Fitzgerald; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Overseas 9 mo; Disch 15 Apr 1919 Custer. EDWARD J. FITZGERALD USA —(14) Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 17 June 1893 Gains Mich of Michael and Katherine (Burke) Fitzgerald; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Mills; Overseas 9 mo; Sta at Toul and Recloses; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. WILLIAM LOUIS LYONS USA-(15) Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 12 July 1892 Green Oak of William and Hattie (Stillson) Lyons; Husband of Mollie (Coneley) Lyons; Father of Donald; Ent serv 25 May 1918; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 9 mo; Served with Inter-Allied Tank Instruction Center; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. ROY QUICK USA —(16) Pvt Co C 214 Eng 14 Div; b 13 June 1894 Pinckney of Lewis and Maggie Quick; Ent serv summer 1918; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch Dec 1918 Custer. IRA A. NAVARRE USA-(17) Pvt Co A Sec B SATC; b 19 Jan 1897 Flat Rock of Isaac S and Rose (Mannauson) Navarre; Ent serv 29 Aug 1918 Bloomington Ind Radio Detach; Prom Acting Cpl; Disch 21 Dec 1919 Bloomington. WILLIAM S. BURT USA-(18) Wagoner 16 Evac Amb Co; b 28 Apr 1897 Highland of Wm C and Laura (Eaton) Burt; Ent serv 1 June 1918 Howell; Sent to Columbus Bks 0, to Cp Greenleaf Ga Motor Co 4; Trsf to Evac Amb Co 16; Overseas 8 mo; Disch 19 Apr 1919 Custer. JAMES P. SLEAR USA-(19) Pvt Troop D 4 Cavalry; b 10 Oct 1899 Ludington Mich of Edwin and Emma (Nichols) Slear; Ent serv 6 Aug 1918 Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks, to Ft Bliss Tex, Ft Ringold Tex; Disch 20 Mar 1919 Ft Ringold. HARRY L. WRIGHT USA-(20) Pvt 20 Co Cp Devons Mass; b 10 Aug 1889 Green Oak of David and Anna (Thornton) Wright; Ent serv 19 Aug 1918; Sent to Cp Dodge la; Devons Mass; Disch 24 Dec 1918 Cp Dodge. 72 -:-:::::~s: i $ 4 ai;\ ~~-,, 21? I nS~ A r( THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY (No photographs of the following men were available. Of some of them there is no photograph in existence; others refused to permit their picture to appear among the service men of the county; and a large number are those who have moved away from the county and their addresses have been lost. In each case all possible information has been printed.) LEE BACKUS USA. Ent serv 22 July 1918; aged 235-12 yrs; Son of Floren and Mrs (Lee) Backus; Disch 22 Jan 1919 Custer; Husband of Gertrude (Lewis) Backus. CHARLES BAIN USA. Ent serv 27 June 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; b 21 Sept 1895 Deerfield; Son of John Bain. GEORGE LEE BALMER USA. Pvt Co I 77 Inf 14 Div; b 9 Apr 1898 Port Huron; Son of Hugh and Anna (Burke) Balmer; Ent serv 1 Sept 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer where he was disch Jan 1919. WILBUR BASING USA. 869 Sqdn Sec B Kelley Field; b 4 July 1895 Marion; Son of Luther Basing; Ent serv 8 Mar 1918 Kelley Field; Disch from Cas Det Cp Custer 22 Jan 1919. CLYDE M. BENNETT USA. Cpl Base Hosp 157; b 26 Dec 1896 Potterville Mich; Son of Anson Bennett; Ent serv 29 May 1918; Sent to Columbus Bks, Cp Greenleaf to 15 Bn Med Dept; Trsf to Base Hosp 157, to Gen Hosp 36 Detroit; Disch 25 July 1919. JAMES LEE BENNETT USA. Pvt Co C 77 Inf 14 Div; b 2 Aug 1896 Delwin Mich of Charles A and Almira (Lee) Bennett; Ent serv 2 Sept 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 24 Jan 1919 Custer. R. B. BENNETT USA. Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 8 Apr 1895 Howell ol John and Nellie (Cotter) Bennett; Husband of Jennie (Young) Bennett; Father of Florence 1915, R B 1917; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; 11 mo overseas; Sta at Bourron, Pont-aRousseau; Trsf to St Nazaire Army Service Corps; Disch 28 June 1919 Custer. EDWIN WINANS BLADES USA. Pvt 338 Inf 85 Div; b 25 May 1894 Hamburg of Joseph and Laura Blades; Ent serv 28 Apr 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf to 339 Inf; Served 11 mo in Russia; In 7 engagements; Disch 12 July 1919 Custer. ROBERT O. BOYLAN USA. Pvt Troop B 4 Cav; b 12 Mar 1899 Howell of Alvin V and Elsie (Perry) Boylan; Ent serv 13 Aug 1918 Detroit; Sent to Ft Bliss El Paso Tex, Ft Ringold Tex; Disch 19 Mar 1919. CHRISTOPHER SATOLLI BROGAN USM. Pvt Co 432 USM; b 27 June 1899 Marion of Christopher and Frances (Sweetman) Brogan; Enlisted June 1918; Called to serv Oct 1918; Sent to Paris Island S C Co 432; Sharpshooter; Sent to Ionia Island N Y; Disch 30 May 1919 Ionia Is N Y. WILLIAM PATRICK BROGAN USA. Pvt Hdq Co 110 FA 29 Div; b 14 Aug 1890 Pinckney of Simon and Fannie (Taylor) Brogan; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Cp Gordon Ga, McClellan Ala; Overseas 11 mo; Sta at Cp de Mulcon, Liffol-le-Grand; Disch 28 May 1919 Custer. FRED THOMAS BROWER USA. Pvt USA; b 27 July 1896 Lapeer Mich; Son of Thomas and Eva Jane Brower; Ent serv 31 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer to 14 Div. CHARLES CURTIS BROWN USA. Pvt SATC; b 26 Sept 1898 Pinckney of Charles W and Amelia F Brown; Ent serv 2 Oct 1918 at Ann Arbor; Sent to Univ of Mich SATC; Disch 11 Dec 1918 Ann -'l CLARE WIL Pvt Co F Son of T Agnes 1918; TONY B9o Veatarre 1918 Hop.x Brighton; N, -TSA. '8 Apr 1897 Ida Mich; ) Brown; Husband of n; Ent serv 23 Oct sch 19 Dec 1918. Marri Scavalle B Ent serv 27 May ster; Drafted from -'ess unknown. WESTON G. BUZZ,. JA. Pvt Unassigned; b 6 Mar 1897 Tyrone; Son of Joseph and Olive Buzzard, Fenton; Ent serv 23 Oct 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Eustis Va; Disch 10 Dec 1918. GEORGE WILLIAML CARNEY USA. B 23 Apr 1890 Niagara Falls N Y; Resided in Howell Twp; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer. HERBERT EZRA CHAMBERLAIN USA. 1 C1 Sergt Co C 1 Bn CWS; b 22 Aug 1893 Howell of Mark and Margaret (McCarthy) Chamberlain; Ent serv 12 Aug 1917 Ft Wayne Detroit; Sent to Walter Reed Hosp Wash D C; Trsf to Chemical Warfare Serv Jan 1918; Sta at Cp Leech D C Animal Experiment Serv, Med Sec of 1 Bn CWS, Gas and Flame Dept; Disch 10 Dec 1918 Cp Leech. HARVEY ARNOLD CLARK USA. Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 23 Feb 1891 Lansing of J Franklin and Anna M (Greenaway) Clark; Husband of Marguerite (Potts) Clark; Ent serv 28 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Mills; Overseas 9 mo; Sta at Recloses and Pont-a-Rousseau; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer; Father of Lawrence and Allen. HERMAN L. CLARK USN. B 30 Sept 1897 Hillsdale Mich; Son of Leman Clark; Ent serv 12 Nov 1917; Sent to Great Lakes; Crossed several times; Last heard of at Christmas 1918 at Hoboken. 74 THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY CASIMIR JAMES CLINTON USA. Was No 1 in the draft; b 7 Sept 1893; Son of R D Clinton; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Was wounded; Has returned. ROY CRAMER USA. SAMUEL ARTHUR DARBY USA. B 29 Sept 1890 Montcalm Co Mich; Was in the employ of John Farrell, Fowlerville, at the time of registration; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 at Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Had served 2 years in the NG previous to the draft; Did not return to the county. CLAUDE DAVIS USA. Mech Co M 338 Inf 85 Div; b 13 Nov 1892 Conway of Ira and Stella (Brimley) Davis; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 9 mo; Sta near Toul; In action between Meuse and Moselle Rivers; Attached to 2 Army; Disch 12 Apr 1919 Custer. CLAUD DAVIS USA. B 12 Feb 1889 Greenfield Ill; Son of Mary (Reaves) Davis of San Francisco Calif. ERNEST J. DeFOREST USN. Fireman 2 C1 USNRF USS Florida; b 8 Apr 1897 Fowlerville; Son of William and Jane (Fenless) DeForest; Ent serv 1 July 1918; 11 mo at sea; Commended for heroic conduct by Secy of Navy Daniels; On 24 May 1919 the SS Virginia was afire in Chesapeake Bay; In his own words: "Seeing it was my duty to help I goes over the side in a boat without any drain-plug and helped rescue the passengers"; Released 7 Aug 1919. RICHARD DEPPE USA. B 24 July 1893 Loppersom Netherlands; Son of Greet Deppe of Loranenen Holland; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Present address unknown. JAMES E. DEVIN USA. Pvt US Troops Sta at Vladivostok Siberia; b 26 May 1901 losco of Frank and Minnie (Van Gilder) (Beach) (Devin) Worthington; Ent serv 18 Aug 1919 Charleston W Va; Sent to Vladivostok via Honolulu; Still in serv Vladivostok. ARTHUR RAY DOWNING USA. Pvt; b 4 Nov 1890 Clay Center O of C H and Mary Downing of Lakeland; Ent serv 18 May 1918; Sent to Cp Benjamin Harrison; Married and father of Robert. HERB DROWN USA. Born in Unadilla; son of Curt and Jennie (Iarford) Drown; served in US Army. JOHN H. DUNLAP USA. Pvt Amb Co 340, 310 Sanitary Trn 85 Div; b 8 Dec 1896 Durand; Son of Robert and Lena Dunlap; Ent serv 21 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 9 mo; Disch 26 Apr 1919 Custer. FRANCIS JAMES DWYER USA. Pvt Hdq Co 338 Inf 85 Div; b 25 Dec 1888 Hartland of John and Catherine Dwyer; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 Howell: Sent to Cp Custer. SETH LEROY ELLIOTT USA. Pvt 2 C1 Btry F 328 FA 85 Div; b 14 Nov 1901 Remus Mich of William Henry and Altha (Warner) Elliott; Husband of Florence (Sowersby) Elliott; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Overseas 5 mo; Sta at St Lapu; Disch 18 Mar 1919 Custer. LEWIS SPk.-ESSELTYNE USA. B 5 July 1891 Dizashube Persia; Son of Lewis S Esseltyne; Ent serv 13 June 1918 Howell; Was employed at Spencer-Smith Co. CHRISTOPHER FITZSIMMONS USA. Pvt Co C 160 DB; b 6 June 1895 Pinckney of John and Mary (Mclntee) Fitzsimmons; Ent serv 28 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Sent to Gen Hosp No 8 Otisville N Y for hernia; found tubercular; Sent to Gen Hosp No 21 Denver Colo 11 Nov 1918; Disch 16 Oct 1919 Denver 100%' disabled. PORTIA L. FORDYCE USA. Pvt Med Corps Field Hosp 35; b 16 Apr 1895 Borden Ind of Samuel and Alice Fordyce; Husband of Lena Fordyce; Ent serv 4 Mar 1918; Sent to Cp Greenleaf, Ft Ogelthorpe Ga; Disch 25 Mar 1918 on SCD. LEOPOLD STRAUSS FRIEDMAN USA. B 25 Mar 1896 Chicago Ill; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Upton. HARRY ALBERT FROST USA. Wagoner Sup Co 340 Inf 85 Div; b 25 Sept 1888 Pinckney; Son of Albert Frost; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer Co I; Trsf to Sup Co; Prom Wagoner; Overseas 9 mo; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. THOMAS FROST USA. Son of Albert Frost of Pinckney. ALBERT JOSEPH FULLER USA. B 22 Feb 1898; Employed at Lakeland at time of the draft; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell: Sent to Cp Custer. JAMES EDWARD GATELY USA. B 29 Dec 1894 West Newton Mass; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Sherman O; Son of Mrs J E Gately East Norwich Street, Columbus O. ALBERT E. GEORGE USA. Pvt SATC; b Howell 1890; Son of Mrs Catherine George; Ent serv 10 Oct 1918; Sent to MAC E Lansing; Disch 21 Dec 1918 E Lansing. ALBERT EARL GRIFFIN USA. B 17 Feb 1891 Princeton Ill; Son of Florence A Stephens; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Address unknown. GEORGE GRIFFIN USA. Husband of Ella (Abramson) Griffin; b 7 Jan 1885 Oceola of Frank and Lida (Holcomb) Griffin; Ent serv 10 Feb 1918; Sent to Columbus Bks; to San,ntonio Tex; Disch 24 May 1918. 75 THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY HERBERT JOHN GROFF USA. Son of Nellie Groff, Tonawanda N Y; At work at Howell Motor Co at date of registration; Was allowed to go home and ent Cp from Tonawanda N Y. ARTHUR E. HACKER USA. Pvt SATC; b 30 July 1896 Williamston; Son of Hazel Hacker; Ent serv 19 Sept 1918; Sent to NMAC E Lansing; Disch 15 Dec 1918 E Lansing. LEONARD D. HALL USA. Pvt 1 C1 Btry D 110 FA 29 Div; b 18 June 1894 Hamburg of James and Alice (Mclntire) Hall; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer, Cp Gordon Ga; Overseas 11 mo; Trsf from Inf to FA at Cp McClellan Ala; Disch May 29 1919. LEWIS B. HALL USA. Registered from Unadilla; Was employed by Henry Sharpe, Gregory; He was born 2 Apr 1894 Nessen Mich. CARL A. HARMON USA. Wagoner 339 Inf 85 Div; b Aug 1899; Son of Charles and Myrtle (Bozard) Harmon of Durand; Ent serv Sept 1918; Was sent to Custer; assigned to 339 Inf; In serv in Russia. HENRY HARRIS USA. B 20 May 1890 Pinckney; Ent serv 15 July 1918 and was sent to Vancouver Bks Washington. ROY HARRIS USA. Pvt SATC; b 31 Dec 1898 at Pinckney Mich; Son of John M and Katherine Harris; Ent serv 15 Oct 1918 at Howell; Sent to Univ of Mich SATC; Disch 20 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor. WILLIAM HENRY HICKMOTT USA. Ent serv 28 Apr 1918 at Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; b 12 Jan 1896 Alexander N Y; Son of Sylvia May (Teachout) Hickmott of Conway. CALVIN MERLE HINDERLITER, JR. USA. Son of Calvin M Hinderliter of Brighton; b 29 Aug at Brookville Pa; Ent serv 22 July 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer. GEORGE H. HOFFMAN USA. Pvt Co A 1 Bn 160 DB; b 26 June 1896 at Huron O of Guy and Leona Belle (Morgan) Hoffman; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 11 Dec 1918 Custer. GEORGE HOLBURN USA. Son of Mrs F J Mullen St Joseph Mich; b 9 Dec 1893; Ent serv 29 June 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Was employed in Pinckney at the time of the Draft. COYE WILSON HOOVER USM. Pvt Co 480 USM; b 16 Dec 1898 Whitford Mich; Son of David Henry and Minnie Hoover; Ent serv 5 Oct 1918 Detroit; Sent to Marine Trng Cp Paris Is; Marine Bks Wash D C; Navy Yds Wash D C; Disch 13 Sept 1919 Wash D C. CHRISTIAN GUNTHER HOPFE USA. Son of Mrs Anna Fox; b 11 Oct 1891 Bremen Germany; Employed in Howell Twp at the time of draft; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Present address unknown. THEODORE C. HOPKINS USA. 1 Lieut USA; b 22 Aug 1886 at Elm Hall Mich; Had 8 yrs military serv previous to the World's War, 3 yrs in Mich and 5 yrs in Oklahoma. 76 WALTER HOUSE USA. LAWRENCE C. INNIS USA. 85 Div; b 22 Oct 1896 Ann Arbor; Son of Nelson Joseph and Ida Innis; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer to 85 Div. NELSON JOSEPH INNIS USA. 85 Div; b 12 Oct 1894 Ann Arbor; Son of Nelson Joseph and Ida Innis; Ent serv 28 Apr 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer to 85 Div. WILLIAM JEFFRIES USA. Pvt Co I 338 Inf 85 Div; b 19 Oct 1890 Pinckney Mich; Son of John and Eliza Jeffries; Ent serv 28 Apr 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf to 88 Div Aug 1918; Overseas 11 mo; Sta at Houdelaincourt; Disch 8 June 1919 Custer. GEORGE PARRISH JOEL USA. Employed in Conway at the time of registration; b 1 Mar 1894 Plymouth Pa; Son of William E Joel Bloomsburg Pa. LEROY CHARLES JOHNSON USA. Registered from Brighton; Returned from South Bend Ind to enter serv from Howell; b 24 May 1893 South Bend Ind; Ent serv 7 Sept 1917 Howell. MAURICE R. KERCKHOVE USA. Employed in Handy at time of registration; b 1 Sept 1890 Thielt Belgium; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer to 85 Div. GUY ERWIN KNOOP USA. Pvt Btry F 328 FA 85 Div; b 27 Jan 1896 Oak Grove; Son of Fred and Louisa (Eastman) Knoop; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 23 Sept 1917 on SCD Custer. LEO CHARLES LAVEY USA. Pvt in Inf 85 Div; b 4 Apr 1887 Pinckney of Michael and Jennie (Roche) Lavey; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer; Injured in train wreck near Chelsea 20 July 1918; Disch because of injuries received 21 Aug 1918 Custer. NORBERT J. LAVEY USA. Sergt Co 163 Trans Corps; b 6 Apr 1892 Pinckney of Michael and Jennie (Roche) Lavey; Ent serv summer of 1917 Detroit; Sent to Columbus Bks; Trsf to New York to a RR outfit, then overseas; Was conductor on American trains in France; Asst Yardmaster at Is-sur-Tille; Also conductor on Pershing's train; Disch summer 1919. FLOYD W. LEDYARD USA. Pvt 340 Inf 85 Div; b 27 July 1887 Northfield of Henry V and Jessie (Bennett) Ledyard; Husband of Izora (Pinkerton) Ledyard; Ent serv 28 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer; Disch 4 June 1918 on SCD Custer. LOUIS LEHNER USA. Sergt 1 C1 USA; b 28 July 1890 Owosso of John and Catherine (Zinterhofer) Lehner; Ent serv 3 Aug 1917; Sent to Cp Custer. FLOYD W. LOWE USA. B 13 Apr 1889 in Marion; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917 at Howell and was sent to Cp Custer. RAY LYONS. THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY MARK EDMOND McCLEAR USA. Pvt 1 C1 in San Sqd; b 10 Oct 1893 in Unadilla; Ent serv 14 Mar 1918 at Howell; Sent to Ft Oglethorpe Ga; Overseas 8 July 1918 to 20 Apr 1919; Disch 1 May 1919 Custer. ROACH McCLEAR. LUCIEN MORRIS McCLUSKEY USA. B 20 May 1893 at Pinckney; Son of James McCluskey; Ent serv 2 Jul 1918; Sent to Vancouver Bks Wash. CLARE DANIEL McPHERSON USA. B 7 July 1895 Fowlerville; A citizen of Canada removed by order of Adjt Gen. BERT SYLVESTER MAAS USA. B 3 Feb 1896 at Muncey Pa; Ent serv 12 July 1917 in the FA. JOHN MARKELL. B 31 Aug 1896 Davisburg Mich; Son of Joe Markell of Burch Run. GLENN W. MARLATT USA. B 7 Mar 1895 at Deerfield; Ent serv 31 Sept 1917 at Howell; Served in Sig Corps. CLARENCE E. MARSHALL USA. Pvt SATC; b 25 Jan 1899; Son of Geo E Marshall; Ent serv 1 Oct 1918 at Howell; Sent to U of M SATC; Disch 23 Dec 1918 Ann Arbor; A Stockbridge boy working in Livingston when ent serv. GEORGE WARD MESSNER USA. B 19 May 1893 at Albion; Ent serv 11 Nov 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer. JOSEPH EDWARD MITCHELL USA. B 25 June 1895 Ionia of John H and Jessie Mitchell; Ent West Point June 1915; Grad June 1918; Still in serv. RUSSELL HARVEY MITCHELL USN. B 8 Dec 1895 at Licking Mo; Enlisted in Navy 10 June 1917. GEORGE ANDREW MOSEBAR USA. B 14 June 1887 at Carleton Mich; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 at Howell; Was sent to Cp Custer. JOHN WILLARD NICHOLS USA. B 21 Jan 1895 at Hastings; Son of A F Nichols; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 at Howell; Sent to Cp Custer. LAWRENCE OWENS USA. B 26 May 1889 at Madison O; Ent serv 19 Nov 1918 at Howell; Sent to Cp Custer. AL MARION PARDEE USN. Fireman 2 Cl USS Parker; b 14 Feb 1892 Edmore; Son of Alva and Emma (Stevenson) Pardee; Husband of Beatrice (Northcott) Pardee; Ent serv 11 Dec 1917 Salt Lake City; Sent to N Trng Sta San Francisco; Trsf Norfolk Va N Trng Sta, to Trng Ship USS Maine, to Naval Base 27 to USS Parker; On convoy and patrol into Baltic sea and up the Elbe River; Disch 25 Aug 1919 Great Lakes. ARTHUR DUNCAN PARSONS USA. B 18 Nov 1893 at St Johns Newfoundland; Son of Mrs Chas Freeman; Ent serv 10 May 1918; Sent to Columbus Bks; Address unknown. ROBERT PECKINS. VICTOR LEO PELOTT USA. Chief Mech Btry F 41 FA 14 Div; b 20 Feb 1895 Granger O; Son of Chas A and Charlotte Reid (Kettle) Pelott; Husband of Reta (Hunt) Pelott; Ent serv 22 July 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Prom Chief Mech; Disch 16 Jan 1919 Custer. CLIFFORD PERKINS. WALTER PITTENGER USA. Sergt 17 Balloon Co; b 2 Apr 1893 Hartland of Joseph O and Emma (Merrow) Pittenger; Ent serv 14 Dec 1917 Columbus Bks O; Sent to Ft Omaha Nebr; Prom Cpl, Sergt; Disch 10 June 1919. RALPH PLUMMER USA. B 20 Dec 1896 Washtenaw Co; Son of Frank and Alice Plummer; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf from Tank Corps to MTC; Disch 18 July 1919 Cp Sherman O. GLENN PRICE USA. B 4 Aug 1890 Locke Mich; Ent serv 29 Aug 1918; Sent to Cp Dodge Ia. MILES PROSSER USA. Wagoner Btry A 41 FA 14 Div; b 20 Oct 1896 Brighton; Son of Frank and Ella (Joslin) Prosser; Husband of Edith (Shehee) Prosser; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer to 14 Div; Prom Wagoner; Disch 23 Jan 1919 Custer. BENNIE K. RAY. ALBERT READ USA. Pvt Co 56 5 Div; b June 1897 of Mary (Read) Stewart; Adopted by H F Rice; Ent serv Nov 1917 Port Royal S C; Sent to Cp at Is of St Thomas; Still in army. WALTER JAMES REASON USA. B 14 Aug 1895 Pinckney; Son of Floyd Reason. GUY A. REDER USA. B 10 Jan 1894 Maumee 0; Son of Ethel Greer of Howell; Last heard from at Detroit. ORSON RESSENGINE, JR. USA. B 2 May 1887 Carson City Mich; Son of Orson Ressengine; Served 3 yrs in US Reg before World War; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer. BANGS N. RICHMOND USA. Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 16 Feb 1892 of Frank and Eva (Bangs) Richmond; Ent serv 2 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer; Trsf to Co D 3 Bn US Grds; Disch 24 Dec 1918. GEORGE RICKER USA. Pvt Co H 10 Inf 14 Div; b 6 Sept 1896 at Coldwater (or Saugatuck); Son of Thomas and Emma Ricker; Ent serv 13 Nov 1917 Kalamazoo; Sent to Ft Benj Harrison Ind; Trsf to Cp Custer; Trsf to 42 MG Bn 14 Div; Disch 24 Jan 1919 Custer. EDWIN FRANK ROBERTS USA. Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 2 Oct 1895 Howell; Son of Albert and Mary Roberts; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer; Overseas 7 mo; Disch 25 Mar 1919 Custer. WILLIAM ROLFE. AARON LESTER ADAM ROTH USA. B 13 Jan 1895 Covington 0; Son of William and Nancy (Dunevant) Roth; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 at Howell; Was sent to Cp Custer. 77 THE BOYS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY FRANK G. ROUNSVILLE 2nd USA. B 26 Jan 1898; A grad of Western Military Academy Alton 11; Ent serv 27 June 1918; Prom Sergt Btry E 38 FA at Cp Lewis Wash; Son of C G Rounsville of Fowlerville; Disch 11 Feb 1919. STAFFORD JUDSON RUSSELL USA. B 4 Jan 1893 at Ontario Can; Son of Mrs Vera Barker; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer. ROMA WASHINGTON SACKNER USA. Pvt Co A 77 Inf 14 Div; b 20 Feb 1897 of Charles and Maud (Pollock) Sackner; Ent serv 25 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Disch 30 Oct 1918 Custer. JOHN SAJECHOWSKI USA. B 20 June 1895 at Kroim Podmelyle Austria; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 at Howell; Sent to Cp Custer. FREDERICK JOHN SCHUSTER USA. Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 16 Nov 1895 Greytown O; Son of William Schuster; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer; Overseas 8 mo; Sta at InterAllied School of Instruction Recloses; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. RALPH EMERSON SHAKLETON USA. Pvt Co M 338 Inf 85 Div; b 16 Jan 1890 Redford of Frank and Emily M Shakleton; Ent serv 2 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Custer; Trsf to Hdq Co; Overseas 8 mo; Sta at Recloses and Toul; Fought in Toul Sector; Disch 12 Apr 1919 Custer. ALFRED W. SHEFFIER USA. Pvt Co 14 160 DB; b 17 May 1892 Hamburg of George and Eva Sheffier; was in army only a short time; Disch on SCD 27 Nov 1917 Cp Custer. KARL SHINDORF. CLARENCE SOPER USA. Pvt Co I 340 Inf 85 Div; b 16 June 1892 Detroit of Maurice and Matilda Soper; Ent serv 27 May 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer; Overseas 8 mo; Sta at InterAllied Instruction Center Recloses; Disch 22 Apr 1919 Custer. R. S. SPROUT USA. Son of E A Sprout of Pinckney; Ent serv 5 June 1917 at Jackson; Disch 16 Dec 1918. HARRY STEELE USA. Mech Co 16 4 Regt Air Serv Mech; b 14 Feb 1894 Detroit of Charles and Ella Steele; Husband of Marguerite Steele; Ent serv 31 Mar 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer; Trsf to Cp Greene N C; Overseas 11 mo; Trsf to MTC; Prom Cpl; Disch 1 July 1919 Custer. ROLAND PARKER STILES USN. Yeoman 2 C1 USS Mongolia; b 7 Apr 1894 Deerfield; Son of Harry P and Stella Stiles; Ent serv 12 Dec 1917 Detroit; Sent to Cp Perry, Gt Lakes; Trsf to USS Mongolia, US Naval Base 29 Cardiff Wales. WILLIAM HOWARD SWARTHOUT USA. B 16 July 1896 Pinckney of Justus and Annette (Hendee) Swarthout; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer. STANLEY LEO TEACHOUT USA. Musician Hdq Co 10 Inf 14 Div; b 31 May 1898 Stockbridge of Charles and Mary (Christian) Teachout; Ent serv 31 Dec 1917 Jackson; Sent to Ft Benj Harrison Ind; Then to Rock Is Arsenal on guard duty; then to Cp Custer; Disch 28 Jan 1919 Custer. WALTER FRANCIS THOMPSON..B 18 Dec 1893 at Wallace Nebr; Son of Walter F Thompson of Hillsdale Mich. NORMAN STEVEN TWITCHELL USA. Pvt in Inf of 19 Div; b 14 Jan 1895 Paw Paw; Adopted by Mortimer H and Adelle Twitchell; Ent serv 29 Aug 1918 Howell; Sent to Cp Dodge Ia; Prom. Cpl; Disch 8 Dec 1918 Cp Dodge Ia. MELVIN UHLES. Tennessee. FRED VANDERCOOK. Howell. LYMAN MAPLE VANDERCOOK USN. Chief Elec Radio USS Bushnell; b 15 July 1894 Howell of Ernest A and Marguerite (Maple) Vandercook; Ent serv 23 Oct 1911 Detroit; First assigned to USS Utah; Trsf to submarine serv, then to USS Bushnell mother ship to subs and destroyers out of Ireland; Cruised to Black Sea; 8 yrs serv USN. HENRY P. T. VAN KEUREN USA. Capt AS; b 1 Apr 1883 Oceola of James Irvin and Fanny Ann (Morgan) Van Keuren; In US Cav 1901-2; Ent serv July 1917 as Capt Sig Corps; On duty Wash D C and Langley Field Va on Aviation Experimental Eng; Disch as Capt Air Serv 1919. LEE J. VAN KEUREN USA. B 23 Dec 1889 losco; Son of Peter Van Keuren; Ent serv 11 May 1918 at Howell; Sent to Columbus Bks Ohio. VICTOR WAKEFIELD USA. B 4 Oct 1887 Howell; Son of Ed and Mary Wakefield; Enlisted 24 Jan 1918 as Pvt in Sup Co 310 QMC; Sent to Cp Johnson Fla; Trsf Newport News; Overseas 12 mo; Prom Cpl, Sergt, 2 Lieut; Disch 23 May 1919. CLARENCE WALTERHOUSE USA. Pvt Co B 3 MG Bn 1 Div; b 1892 at Howell; Ent serv 15 May 1917 Detroit in Co M 28 Inf 1 Div; Trsf to Co B 3 MG Bn; Overseas 12 June 1917 to 5 Sept 1919 (27 mo); Battles, Defs, Luneville, Toul, Montdidier-Noyon, Sazerais; Off, Cantigny, AisneMarne, Meuse-Argonne; Disch 24 Sept 1919; 4 gold chevrons. HARRY WATERS USA. B 5 June 1895 Bancroft; Son of Jessie Waters Collins; Ent serv 28 Apr 1918 Howell; Sent to Custer. JOHN WESLEY WEBB USA. B 14 May 1893 Owosso; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Custer. RONELL W. WHITE USA. B 12 May 1895 Mobile Ala; Son of Mary White; Ent serv 22 July 1918 Howell and was sent to Custer. CASEY C. WIGGINS. LEWIS MARTIN WILKINS USA. Pvt Btry F 120 FA 32 Div; b 11 Mar 1893 Chelsea of Peter and Mary Wilkins; Ent serv 19 Nov 1917; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf to 32 Div at Waco Tex; Overseas 14 mo; In action with 32 Div; Disch 15 May 1919 Custer. HERBERT WILLIAMS. WILLIAM REGINALD WILLIAMSON. B 10 June 1887 at Holland Center Ontario Canada. BRAZELLA HARRY WILSON USA. Pvt Co M 338 Inf 85 Div; b 1 Oct 1888 at Brody Saginaw Co of Daniel and Emma (Billington) Wilson; Ent serv 20 Sept 1917 Howell; Sent to Cp Custer; Trsf to Vancouver Bks Wash to Spruce Production Div; Cutting Aeroplane stock in saw mill; Disch 20 Dec 1918. LOUIS WORDEN. Gregory. IRVING YOUNG. iHowell. 78 l:,: - I. y r ' ' ": " 8i i X:::: r:: 0:: J 1 I g:~ 91 ib ML I iI RED CROSS AMERICAN RED CROSS-COUNTY DIRECTORS 1. MRS. WILL B. READER County Director, Mar. 1918 Chr Cohoctah Twp., Aug. 1917 2. MRS. WHEELER RUSSELL County Director, 1917-Mar. 1918 Purchasing Agent, Cohoctah Twp. 1,600 hours Red Cross service. 3. MRS. O. F. MERITHEW County Vice-Chairman, 1919 County Director, Oct. 1917 Secy Oceola Twp. 4. CLAUDE V. COURTER County Director, April 1917 Charter member. Chairman Junior Red Cross 1918 County Chr Membership Drives in 1917 (5,218 members) and 1918 5. MRS. R. B. McPHERSON County Director Oct. 1917 County Chr Comm on Canteens 1,000 hours Red Cross service D. A. R. 6. MRS. HARRIETT CLEMENTS County Director, Oct. 1918 Chr Hartland Twp. 7. MRS. JENNIE E. BARTON County Director, Oct. 1919 Chr Putnam Twp. 8. MRS. CARRIE SHERIDAN County Director, Nov. 1918 Chr Hamburg Twp. 9. MRS. WM. TUNNARD County Director, Oct. 1919 Prominent in Iosco Twp. 10. FRANK M. LANSING County Director, April 1917-Jan. 1918 Treas. Brighton Twp. 11. MRS. JOS. BIRKENSTOCK County Director, Jan. 1918-Oct. 1918 Chr Brighton Twp. 12. MRS. JOHN McDONALD County Director, Oct. 1918 Chr Brighton Twp. (No photos available) H. N. BEACH County Director, Oct. 1917 Chr Home Service two years MRS. ROBERT BROWN County Director, Oct. 1917-1919 MRS. GLEN BURKHART County Director, Oct. 1917-1919 Chr Handy Twp. 800 hours Red Cross service D. A. R. DR. COOKE County Director, Oct. 1917-1918 MRS. FRANK CRANDALL County Director, Oct. 1918 In charge Methodist sewing JOHN DAMMANN (photo with War Boards) County Director, Oct. 1917-Nov. 1918 MRS. ARTHUR GARLAND County Director, Oct. 1917 Chr Housewives and Comfort Kits MRS. SAMUEL R. HOLMES County Director, Oct. 1917 Chr Conway Twp. FRED HOWLETT (photo with War Boards) County Director, Oct. 1919 HENRY HOWLETT County Director, April 1917-1919 MRS. W. C. HUNTINGTON (photo with County War Board) County Director, Oct. 1917 County Chr Surgical Dressings 1,150 hours Red Cross service County Chr Membership Drive, 1919 Past Regent D.A. R. MRS. W. W. KNAPP County Treasurer, Apr.-Oct. 1917 Past Registrar D. A. R. R. D. ROCHE (photo with Four Minute Men) County Director, April 1917-1918 GEO. W. TEEPLE (photo with War Boards) County Director, Apr.-Oct. 1917 MRS. JOHN TELLER County Director, Apr. 1917-Mar. 1918 GEORGE VAN HORN County Director, Apr.-Oct. 1917 MRS. HEBER WILKINSON County Director, Apr.-Oct. 1917 HENRY H. WINES (photo with War Boards) County Director, April 1917 80 AMERICAN RED CROSS Livingston County Chapter OFFICERS 1. MRS. W. P. VANWINKLE, County Chairman, April 1917. Member Board of Directors, April 1917. 1,930 hours Red Cross service. County Chairman, Women's Committee on all Liberty Loans. Regent D. A. R. 1917-1919. Charter member, Livingston Chapter. 2. MRS. ELMER N. BRALEY, County Vice-Chairman, April 1917-1919. Charter Member, Livingston Chapter. County Board of Directors, April 1917. County Chr Comm on Organization, July 1917. 1,040 hours Red Cross service. D. A. R. 3. MISS FRANCES I. HUNTINGTON, County Secretary, April 1917. Charter Member, Livingston Chapter. County Board of Directors, April 1917. 3,200 hours Red Cross service. Secy D. A. R. 1919-20. 4. MRS. A. L. SMITH, County Treasurer 1917. County Board of Directors, Oct. 1917. County Secy and Treas., Junior Red Cross. 1,068 hours Red Cross service. AMERICAN RED CROSS Livingston County Chapter Howell, Michigan By Frances I. Huntington, County Secretary The Howell Woman's Club called a meeting 16 April, 1917, in their rooms for the purpose of organizing an American Red Cross Auxiliary of the Chapter at Lansing. The call was to the citizens of Howell. Sixty-three women responded to the call. No man appeared. For this reason the officers of the organization were all women. But, as always the men of the County stood loyally behind these women in all their efforts through the whole history of the organization. Every one of the 63 women joined the Red Cross at that meeting. The instructor in organization was Mrs. Davis of Lansing, daughter of John W. Davis, Councilor for the American National Red Cross at Washington, D. C. The officers elected were: Chairman, Mrs. W. P. VanWinkle; Vice-Chairman, Mrs. E. N. Braley; Secy, Frances I. Huntington; Treas., Mrs. W. W. Knapp; Committees: Membership, Mrs. C. E. Gough; Rooms and Furnishings, Mrs. R. B. McPherson; Purchasing, Mrs. Fannie Hickey. 81 A membership campaign was launched and the city thoroughly canvassed. The committee on Rooms and Furnishings secured the use rent free of the building at Grand River and Michigan, owned by M. J. McPherson. May 1 the State of Michigan reorganized as a State unit and the Howell A. R. C. was instructed to reorganize as Livingston County Chapter. Application for a County Chapter was signed by Dr. I-aTry G. Huntingtoii, C. V. Courter, Rev. L. S. Brooke, Dr. J. E. Brown, Willis L. Iyons, AMrs. W. P. VanWinkle, Mrs. E. N. Braley, Frances I. ITuntington, Mrs. W. W. Knapp, Mirs C. E. (;ough, Mrs. Carrie Goodnow, Mrs. Fannie Hickey. Authority to organize a Red Cross Chapter was granted by State Headquarters, Detroit, May 16, 1917, with the jurisdiction of the Chapter the whole of the County. At the organization meeting on May 23 the following directors were elected: Until October 31, 1917-Mrs. W. P. VanWinkle, Frances L. Huntington, Mrs. W. W. Knapp, C. V. Courter, George VanHorn. Until October 31, 1918-Mrs. E. N. Braley, Frank M. Lansing, Mrs. John Teller, Dr. Cooke, R. D. Roche. Until October 31, 1919-H. H. Wines, Henry Howlett, Mrs. Heber Wilkinson, Judge A. E. Cole, George Teeple. A draft of the organization with the names of the officers was sent to Washington for approval. Recognition of the Chapter was granted by Acting Chairman Eliot Wadsworth under date of June 28, 1917. The first meeting of the Board of Directors was held in the office of the County Treasurer, July 6, 1917. The regular time of meeting was fixed for the last Thursday of each month thereafter. Mrs. E. N. Braley was elected Chairman of the Committee on organization with instructions to organize each township of the county not already organized. Fowlerville organized in April as an Auxiliary of Lansing with Mrs. Glenn Burkhart as Chairman. Mrs. Burkhart attended the meeting at Howell and made arrangements with Mrs. Davis to visit Fowlerville for the purpose of organization the following week. Mrs. Glenn Burkhart was elected a member of the Board of Directors to fill the place of Judge Cole who resigned. Knitting The knitting of the Chapter was in charge of Mrs. Fannie Hickey and Mrs. C. E. Gough. By the time the first draft of seven boys went they were ready with sweaters and wristlets. Perhaps no faces of the Red Cross women will be remembered so well by the soldiers as the faces of these two women who responded to every call for knitted comforts for the duration of the war. If any enlisted man went without, even from the remotest corner of the county it was because they had no means of knowing of it. Each time when the large groups went they were on hand with other assistants to place in the hands of each soldier these remembrances of a loyal people. In May of 1918 the local Red Cross Chapters were forbidden to distribute the knitted articles. A fund was raised outside of the Red Cross Fund and the distribution was continued from this Patriotic Fund. Fully 550 soldiers, sailors and marines were cared for during the war. Besides these gifts to our own boys, this department shipped to Detroit or Chicago, 1,244 sweaters, 550 prs. wristlets, 268 mufflers, 282 helmets, 233 trench caps, 1,050 prs. socks, 450 prs. stockings, 10 shawls, 13 knitted spreads. Housewives Mrs. Arthur Garland had charge of making the housewives which were also given to each of the 550 men who served in the war. These little articles in folder shape and pocket size were filled with scissors, thread, needles, buttons, and pins. Gregory furnished 75 of them. Iosco and Oceola helped. R. B. McPherson paid for filling the first draft, Sept. 5 and 20. Shipped to Detroit and Chicago: 202 Christmas packets; 331 comfort bags; 174 property bags. Surgical Dressings The first Surgical Dressings of the Chapter were made if Pinckney and Fowlerville. Miss Mollie Connor of Fowlerville went to Flint and took a course in surgical dressings. Mrs. W. C. Huntington, Frances Huntington, and Marion McPherson went to Fowlerville and learned of Miss Connor. Mrs. Huntington and Marion McPherson at first, and later Mrs. Huntington alone had charge of surgical dressings for the Chapter and for Howell City. Branches in this work were formed in Brighton, Conway, Cohoctah, Deerfield, Tyrone and Hamburg, besides the two already mentioned. The output of the county was: Bandages 4,781; gauze dressings 49,491; pads 3,402; pneumonia jackets 211; shot bags 4,230; miscellaneous 3,103. Total 66,218. Canteen A Banquet was given for the first two Drafts of soldiers who left, but the time taken to reach Custer from Howell and the scarcity of Canteens on the route caused a change in the plans. After that every soldier was given a box of lunch and fruit was distributed to them on the train; 275 boxes of lunches were given. The Canteen service was in charge of Mrs. R. B. McPherson and for the greater portion of the time was supported by private contribution. Hospital Garments All goods were purchased locally at first and as Howell is not a large manufacturing center there was no way of getting Machine-cut Garments. Julia Lown, Mrs. Barnard, Mrs. Cramer, Mrs. Sargison did most of the cutting in the rooms. Mrs. Arthur Garland cut at home. The sewing was under the direction of a different person for each day of the week except Saturday which was devoted to the distribution of yarn, and the collection of knitted articles. Mrs. R. B. McPherson, Mrs. E. D. Galloway, Mrs. L. E. Howlett, Mrs. H. H. Wines, Edna Young, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Frank Crandall, and Miss Kate O'Connor were among the very faithful ones in supervising the work rooms. No auxiliaries were formed among the various organizations and churches but the different days were in charge of different societies, the Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, and Eastern Star each having a day. The output of the sewing department was: 4,781 hospital and army garments; 2,637 refugee garments; 2,065 hospital supplies; 82 layettes; a total of 9,565 garments, which does not include a large number of garments made for the society of French wounded both in the chapter workrooms and by many of the branches. In 1918 we shipped 3,905 of uncounted garments for Belgium Relief and a larger amount in 1919. The call for nuts for making gas masks was responded to by a collection of 4,605 pounds. Finances In 1917 the county was assessed......$20,000.00 There was pledged............................ 20,009.35 There was collected........................ 18,435.85 Retained by the Chapter............... 4,608.96 Deposited to Cr. Secy McAdoo...... 13,826.89 Frances I. Huntington. (continued on page 90) 82 JUNIOR RED CROSS By Hugh Aldrich, County Chairman of The Chapter School Committee Our county is well organized. The officers are county chairman, county secretary-treasurer, and a chairman, secretary and treasurer in each township. We have a membership of two thousand. Red Cross headquarters, in the winter of 1919, authorized us to put on the Junior Health Crusade, the object being to improve the health of the Juniors by providing sufficient food, sleep, exercise and other things. The boys and girls were enthusiastic and two thousand one hundred enrolled. At the end of six weeks they had all become squires. At the end of ten weeks seven hundred twenty had become knights and at the end of fifteen weeks one hundred seventy five had received the badge of Knight Bannerett. The work is continuing as this account is written. Perhaps the event that stands out most prominently in the minds of Juniors during the war was the big County Patriotic Day. On the eighteenth of May, 1918, about twelve thousand people coming from far and near, assembled at Howell. They had the privilege of listening to one of Camp Custer's best bands, of hearing a patriotic address by Dr. Inches of Detroit, of seeing the biggest parade that ever marched through the streets of Howell. Nearly every school was represented in the great parade. The receipts were $1,080 for Red Cross work. Broadly speaking the work of the Juniors now is to "rebuild the world." Let us help them by putting new meaning into our present day education and through it develop in the hearts and minds of children the spirit and understanding that will save the world from selfishness and hasten the day when peace shall reign throughout the world. No complete history of the great war can be written which does not record the glorious achievements of the millions of school children of the country. Their eagerness to help, their willingness to sacrifice, their determination to serve with the nations of the world were a great force in winning the war. The full story of the earning of over three million dollars by the Juniors can never be told. Sufficient records have not been kept. What we do know is that this money was well spent to provide millions of surgical dressings, to buy yarn for sweaters and socks and for general relief work. The work done by Juniors in Livingston County was the making of aprons and shawls and quilts. Large quantities of nuts were gathered, clothing collected and books and magazines were sent to soldiers. Township Officers of the Junior Red Cross Year Twp. Chairman Secretary-Treasurer Conway-Vance Purdy, Agnes Kingsley. Cohoctah-L. E. Ingersoll, Mrs. Ray Carlson. Deerfield-Anna Conklin, Hazel Harris. Tyrone-Mrs. Ethel Kirshman, Ida Cranston. Handy-Idalene Webb, Winifred Faunce. Howell-C. V. Courter, Alta Filkins. Oceola-Sarah Bachelor, Mrs. Emerson Bigelow. Hartland-Beatrice Arthur, Edna Close. 1918-1919. Twp. Chairman Secretary-Treasurer Iosco-Mrs. Hazel Congdon, Ruth Yelland. Marion-Bernice McDowell, Ethel Sharp. Genoa-Eunice Rickett, Georgia Beurmann. Brighton-B. E. Allen, Francis Haywood. Unadilla-Nellie Denton, Lois Worden. Putnam-J. P. Doyle, Norma Curlett. Hamburg-Jennie Twitchell, Beatrice Hinckley. Green Oak-Mrs. Mary Allen, Mrs. Alta Field. TREASURER'S REPORT (From 29 March, 1919, to 21 January, 1920) RECEIPTS. DISBURSEMENTS. Conw ay..........................$ C ohootah........................ Deerfield.......................... T yrone........................... H an dy........................... Howell Twp...................... H ow ell City...................... Oceola............................ Hartland..................... losco............................. M arion........................... Genoa.......................... B righton......................... Unadilla................... Putnam.......................... H am burg......................... Green O ak....................... H. G. Aldrich (miscel. Twps.)...... 40.74 47.96 8.24 33.10 5.75 10.50 9.43 42.42 4.50 33.25 34.00 29.92 54.56 34.80 6.00 10.00 10.70 43.75 Health Crusade.........................$ 73.65 Postage...........................49 Christmas Gifts for Soldiers' children............................ 24.56 H. G. Aldrich for Supplies and printing........................ 32.38 Balance...................... 328.54 Total...........................$459.62 MRS. A. L. SMITH, Treasurer. Total...........................$459.62 (The sums above represent only those amounts handled by the Junior Chapter Treasurer. Each township collected and disbursed other sums not shown here. As an example, Howell City Schools raised $19.06, most of which was spent for "housewives" for the soldiers and for the packing boxes made by the Manual Training Class for Red Cross shipments.) 83 AMERICAN RED CROSS Workers and Township Officers 1. MRS. ADA VINCENT, Department of Knitting, Howell. 1,762 hours Red Cross service. 2. MRS. CHAS. E. GOUGH, Charter Member A. R. C. Department of Knitting, Howell. 914 hours Red Cross service. Regent D. A. R., 1919-20. 3. MRS. FANNIE M. HICKEY, Charter Member A. R. C. County Chairman of Knitting. 1,000 hours Red Cross service. 4. MRS. HENRY H. WINES, In charge, 1 day a week sewing. 840 hours Red Cross service, Howell. 5. MRS. L. E. HOWLETT, In charge, 1 day a week sewing. 895 hours Red Cross service, Howell. 6. MISS JULIA LOWN, Department of Cutting, Howell. 1,900 hours Red Cross service. 7. MRS. CLARK REED, Department of Knitting, Howell. 1,600 hours Red Cross service. 8. MRS. GLEN SATTERLA, Supt. of School Dist., working unit. Howell Twp. 9. MRS. FLOYD P. HO.WELL, Chairman, Oceola Twp., July 1917. 10. MRS. GEORGE BARNARD, In charge, 1 day a week sewing, 800 hours Red Cross service, Howell. 11. MRS. IRVIN W. HART, Chairman, Marion Twp. 12. MRS. FRED MARR, Treasurer, Howell Twp. 13. MRS. GUY BORDEN, Vice-Chairman, Marion Twp. 14. MRS. EMERSON M. BIGELOW, Treasurer, Oceola Twp. 15. MRS. JOHN RYAN, Department of sewing, Howell. 1,814 hours Red Cross service. 16. MISS ALICE ATKINSON, Department of Knitting and Sewing, 1,600 hours Red Cross service, Howell. 17. MISS ALICE McKINLEY, Secretary, Deerfield Twp. 18. RALPH K. HARDY, Treasurer, Oceola Twp. 19. MRS. CHAS. DEVINNEY, Chairman, Deerfield Twp., July, 1917. 20. MRS. JOHN GURDON, Vice-Chairman, Deerfield Twp. (No photos available.) MRS. GRACE N. APPLETON, Vice-Chairman, Hamburg Twp., 2nd year. MRS. BERNICE M. BENTLEY, Secretary, Green Oak, Oct. 1917-1918. MISS FRANCES BERGIN, Chairman, Howell Twp., 1 year. MRS. W. J. BUHL, Vice-Chairman, Unadilla Twp. MRS. LILLIAN BURDEN, Treasurer, Unadilla Twp. MRS. E. W. BURKHART, 800 hours Red Cross service. B. I. CASE, Treasurer, Brighton Twp. MRS. EMILY CONVERSE, 800 hours Red Cross service. Oldest woman in county to win Red Cross honor pin. MRS. MAX G. CURDY, Vice-Chairman, Oceola Twp. MISS NORMA CURLETT, Treasurer, Putnam Twp. MRS. J. P. DOYLE, Secretary, Putnam Twp. FRANK EATON, Treasurer, Deerfield Twp., 1st year. MRS. E. C. FAIRBAIN, Secretary-Treasurer, Tyrone Twp., 1st year. MRS. MARY FICK, Secretary, Putnam Twp. MISS NELLIE GARDNER, Chairman, Putnam Twp., 1st year. MRS. ELMER GLENN, Vice-Chairman, Putnam Twp. MRS. ADDIE GOODFELLOW, Treasurer, Tyrone Twp., 2nd year. MRS. CHRIS GRILL, Secretary, Conway Twp. MRS. IRA HEMPSTEAD, Treasurer, Conway Twp. MRS. CHAS. HENRY, Treasurer, Putnam Twp. MRS. E. HILL, Chairman, Unadilla Twp. MRS. CHAS. HUFF, 800 hours Red Cross service. REV. T. H. JONES, Chairman, Putnam Twp. 84 85 AMERICAN RED CROSS Workers and Township Officers 1. MRS. FRED RATHBUN, Treasurer, Handy Twp. 800 hours Red Cross service. 2. MRS. HUGH ALDRICH, Vice-Chairman, Handy Twp. 3. MRS. CLAUDE HAMILTON, Chairman, Handy Twp., 2nd year. 800 hours Red Cross service. 4. MRS. JOHN ROWE, Vice-Chairman, Handy Twp. 5. MRS. ERNEST LAWSON, Supt. of North Genoa. 6. MRS. FRANK LANE, Department of Surgical Dressings., Handy Twp. 1,300 hours Red Cross service. 7. MISS MOLLIE CONNOR, Supervisor of entire work-room, Handy Twp. 1,350 hours Red Cross service. First in county to take course of instruction in surgical dressings. 8. MRS. WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE, Solicitor, Cohoctah Twp. 9. MRS. A. G. PEARCE, Overseer of Sewing, Cohoctah Twp. 10. MRS. CLAUD BURKHART, Vice-Chairman, Cohoctah Twp. 11. MRS. GEORGE KILLEN, Chairman of North Cohoctah. 12. MISS ELLA HEDICAN, Vice-Chairman, Iosco Twp. 13. GEORGE R. CHAPLIN, Treasurer, Iosco Twp. 14. MRS. EVA CHAPLIN, Secretary, Iosco Twp. 15. MISS EDNA KERN, Chairman, Iosco Twp. 16. MRS. BERT SPRAGUE, Treasurer, Cohoctah Twp., 1st year. 17. MRS. JOHN WRIGGLESWORTH, Secretary, Cohoctah Twp., 1st year. 18. MRS. GENEVA PITKIN, Chairman, Brighton Twp., 1st year. 19. MRS. ROY M. LANNEN, Secretary, Cohoctah Twp., 2nd year. 20. MRS. ROY CARLSON, Treasurer Cohoctah Twp., 2nd year AMERICAN RED CROSS Fowlerville Branch By Mrs. Claude D. Hamilton, Chairman. [It has not been possible to print the story of each local branch of the Livingston County Red Cross Chapter. We submit, however, the report of the oldest branch in the county.-The Editor.] On May 3, 1916, the Handy Red Cross unit was formed. At first it was a unit of Lansing, but later when the state was organized by counties, the unit came under the supervision of the county chapter with the main office at Howell. The first officers of the Handy Unit were: Mrs. G. P. Burkhart, Chairman; Mrs. Hugh Aldrich, Vice-Chairman; Mrs. F. I. Winter, Secretary; Mrs. F. A. Rathbun, Treasurer. Miss Mollie Connor was appointed chairman of the Work Room Committee. This office she filled all during the long months of the war, she and her faithful helpers never sparing themselves in their efforts to get quotas filled in the required time. Mrs. E. W. Burkhart as chairman of the knitted work found all the old knitters in the district and taught others how. Mrs. Frank Lane, Chairman of Surgical Dressings, was a tireless worker in all Red Cross Work. Mrs. Claude D. Hamilton, Chairman of Membership, with many workers secured over 400 members the first year and Mrs. Chas. Bristol, Chairman of Belgian and French Relief, with the members of her committee did wonders in making old into new for the comfort of those sorrowing people. The first year the unit had no settled rooms, but when the United states entered the war, and our activities were mucn increased, A. E. Cole and R. T. Sprague generously gave the use or their large room in the second story of their block. Some equipment was put in and work was commenced in earnest. The last part of the second year, Mrs. G. P. Burkhart resigned as chairman on account of illness in the family and the Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Hugh Aldrich, became acting chairman, but on account of illness she too resigned. In April, 1918, the following officers were elected: Mrs. Claude Hamilton, Chairman; Mrs. Jack Rowe, Vice Chairman; Mrs. Geo. Knickerbocker, Secretary; Mrs. Fred Rathbun, Treasurer; Mrs. Ford Smith, Assistant Secretary. The activities for raising money fo)r the work were many and varied: socials, amateur, theatricals, tag days. One comedy put on by local talent netted the Red Cross over three hundred dollars. After all moneys were handled from county headquarters by National Red Cross order, this unit started a Patriotic Fund which has always been well supported. On May 27, 1919, when all but eleven of our boys were home from the front and camp, the Red Cross of Iosco and Conway joined with Handy and gave the returned soldiers and sailors an all day reception with banquet in the evening, music by Curtis' Band. Speeches and a parade of all the orders, school children, G. A. R., and the soldiers and sailors, constituted the afternoon's pleasures. In the evening, thru the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Roy T. Sprague, their large garage was cleared out and beautifully decorated and amid friends and flowers and flying flags, seventy boys in uniform sat down to a splendid banquet prepared by the ladies of the three units and served by a committee of Fowlerville business men. After the banquet, the whole garage was seated and about one thousand friends of the boys listened (continued on page 90) 86 ,'t 17N ,, AMERICAN RED CROSS Workers and Township Officer3 1. MRS. F. E. MEYERS, Vice-Chairman, Genoa Twp. 2. MRS. K. P. GANNON, Secretary, Brighton Twp., 2nd year. 3. MRS. WHEATON HICKS, Chairman, Tyrone Twp., 1st year. 4. MRS. JAMES G. HAYES, Treasurer, Genoa Twp. 5. MRS. JAMES R. McNAMARA, Secretary, Genoa Twp. 6. MRS. JOHN ALLEN, Vice-Chairman, Hartland Twp., 2nd year. 7. MRS. LEE FISHIBECK, Chairman, Genoa Twp. 8. MRS. FLORA NORTON, Supt. of Knitting, Brighton Twp. 9. MISS JULIA BALL, Chairman, Hamburg, June, 1917-Nov. 1918. 10. MRS. BLANCHE CASE, Supt. Surgical Dressings, Brighton Twp. 11. MRS. E:MM;i WESTPHAL, Secretary, Brighton Twp. 12. MISS BESSIE HOLLISTER, Chairman, Green Oak Twp. 13. MRS. MABEL G. TUTHILL, Treasurer, Green Oak Twp. 14. MRS. I. S. GILBERT, Supt., of Sewing, Brighton Twp. 15. MRS. GEORGE ARTHUR, Secretary, Hartland Twp. 16. MRS. NELLIE E. HAIGHT, Secretary, Hamburg Twp. 17. MRS. FRED PIPP, Supt. of a division of Brighton Twp. 18. MRS. C. M. RORABACHER, Treasurer, Hamburg Twp. 19. MRS. JENNIE MILLS, Vice-Chairman, Brighton Twp. 20. MISS LORRAINE B. WALLACE, Treasurer, Hartland Twp., 2nd year. (No photographs available.) MRS. GEORGE KIRKLAND, Chairman, Iosco Twp. MRS. C. H. KIRCHMAN, Secretary, Tyrone Twp., 2nd year. MRS. GEO. KNICKERBOCKER, Secretary, Handy Twp. 800 hours Red Cross service. MRS. CORA WATTS MARSHALL, Chairman, Unadilla Twp. MRS. H. E. MARSHALL, Secretary, Unadilla Twp. MRS. MARSHALL, Chairman, Green Oak Twp. FRANK E. MEYERS (photo with War Boards). Treasurer, Genoa Twp. MRS. G. MUSCH, Vice-Chairman, Green Oak Twp. MRS. HORACE MUSCH, Secretary, Green Oak Twp. MRS. E. S. NASH, Secretary, Marion Twp. MRS. WILBUR NUGENT, Treasurer, Green Oak Twp. MRS. THOS. SHEHAN, Vice-Chairman, Putnam Twp. MRS. HENRIETTA B. SMITH, Vice-Chairman, Hamburg Twp. MISS KATE SORG, Secretary, Howell Twp. MRS. GEORGE STOWE, Vice-Chairman, Conway Twp. MRS. BURTON STREET, Chairman, Tyrone Twp. MRS. HATTIE SWARTHOUT, Chairman, Putnam Twp., later Treasurer, Putnam. WILLIAM TUNNARD, Treasurer, Iosco Twp. MRS. CARRIE A. VANHORN, Treasurer, Hamburg Twp. MRS. W. C. WAKEMAN, Vice-Chairman, Hartland Twp. MRS. EFFIE EMBLER WALKER, Secretary, Unadilla Twp. EDWARD WHITE, Treasurer, Deerfield Twp. MRS. GEORGE WRIGHT, Treasurer, Marion Twp. MISS EDNA YOUNG, Department of Sewing, Howell. 1048 hours Red Cross service. 88 \ 89 Livingston County Chapter (continued from page 82) 2nd Red Cross War Fund: Quota................-..................... $10,000.00 Gross collections................... 10,530.81 Retained by Chapter.......-...... 2,632.70 Deposited to Cr. McAdoo.......... 7,898.11 Emily B. Smith, Treas. In 1918 the County was assessed........$10,000.00 There was collected..........-. 9,515.95 Retained by Chapter.. ----.......-. 2,345.87 Deposited to Cr. U. S. Treas...... 7,170.08 As requested by Central Division, December, 1918, the Chapter paid them $6,800 to meet payments on materials on hand. Thus in 1919, no assessment was made upon Livingston Chapter. Membership 1917-18..-..........5,218 Membership 1918-19.................. -... 6,240 Membership 1919-20..... --- —...... 1-,780 Treasurer's Report From May 1917-Dec. 31, 1919 ReceiptsGifts, contributions, etc............... - $3,100.91 Materials sold............................ 2,226.99 Membership dues..-..... -—............- 10,239.50 ^ Miscellaneous (inc. money ret'd by Branch Treas.) ------------ 7,570.26 v War Fund surplus....... --- —.......... - 7,225.34 Total......... $30,363.00 W P= DisbursementsU n Materials and supplies purchased.....$10,422.92 Z Transportation on supplies............. 126.36 ~ Home Service.......... --- —-- 216.73 P Canteen................-..... ----..... 13.77 ~ ~ Public Disaster -—................ --- —... 25.00. Salaries............................. 75.00 E Fuel, light, rent - 23.50 a Postage, printing, stationery.......... 197.44 General administrative expenses......... 219.00 J v Miscellaneous (incl. money returned to; Branch Treas.) --------- 775.66 Remitted to Chicago for memberships 5,336.00 o Remitted to Chicago in lieu of payment 0 for materials.................... 7,537.67 a g Balance on hand Dec. 31, 1919........ 5,393.95 Total-. — $30,363.00 * Emily B. Smith, Treasurer. Fowlerville Branch (continued from page 86) with them to a fine program. The principal speakers were Rev. F. I. Winter, a former Baptist pastor, who had been in France as a Y worker, Rev. Russel Brady, of Pontiac and Lieut. Leslie Peek, one of Fowlerville's own boys. The speaking and music made a very enjoyable evening. The boys who were not home for the banquet were remembered by an appropriate gift at Christmas, the officers much regretting that all the boys could not have been home for the banquet. During the two years and more of work, the Fowlerville chapter turned out about eighteen thousand articles, 500 knitted and 12,000 hospital supplies. Accurate account was not kept at first so that these figures are under rather than overestimated. The following ladies qualified for the 800 hour medal given by the National Red Cross: Miss Mollie Connor, 1,300 hours; Mrs. Frank Lane, Mrs. Emma Converse, 800 hours knitting, Mrs. Claude Hamilton, Mrs. G. P. Burkhart, Mrs. E. W. Burkhart, Mrs. Fred Rathbun, Mrs. Geo. Knickerbocker. 90. ir040 00 i. I 11 HOME ACTIVITIES The Draft Board in Session at Howell F. H. Lare, Sec'y J. E. Brown, M. D. W. L. Miller, Chr. Miss Anna Wilcox, Clerk THE LOCAL DRAFT BOARD OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY In the early summer of 1917, Governor Sleeper at Lansing appointed W. C. Miller, Dr. J. E. Brown, and John Hagman as members of the Local Board of Livingston County in conformance to the Selective Service Act of Congress. The registration of all males between the ages of 21 and 30 years took place during the month of June. In August F. H. Lare was appointed to the place of John Hagman under the ruling that a man registered could not be a member of the Draft Board. The Board with these three men continued without change in service until rendered inactive and dissolved after the signing of the armistice in 1918. Miss Wilcox was the clerk to the Board. The work of the Draft Board was one of the most important of the war activities. In this county, as in every county in the United States there were tremendous difficulties to be overcome and grave misunderstandings on the part of the public as to the work of these men. The results of their decision were of such vital consequence that disagreements could not but arise. They have accomplished a great patriotic service to the country, however. They undertook and carried to completion a task that would make timid men falter. And they did it with a justice and broad consideration that few men could have exceeded. Pursuant to orders from the Adjutant General of Michigan, the Draft Board of Livingston County called to Howell and sent away to the service about four hundred sixty men. The majority of these were sent to Camp Custer; some groups went to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., Rockwell Field, Calif., and Fort Dodge, Ia. The first quota was about forty men sent to Camp Custer in the middle of September, 1917. The men had registered and had been passed as physically fit by the medical examiner, Dr. Brown. It was Dr. Brown's tremendous task to examine all of these young men of the county. At first, the doctor's decision was the final authority, physically, but after January 1, 1918, any who thought they were too sick to fight might appeal to a District Examining Board at Lansing. Thes2 men were the first forty consecutive numbers, determined by the drawing of numbers at Washington. Under the direction of the Adjutant General of the Army, General Crowder, the registration numbers of the young men had been placed in capsules, ten numbers in each capsule. The Local Board which had reported the largest total of registrants was used as the basis. The drawing of the capsules was made blind-folded. Thus if the first number drawn was 258, then the man numbered 258 in every Local Board in the United States became number one in the draft. The other nine numbers in the same capsule became Draft Numbers 2 to 10. This gave the consecutive order in which the men were called. During the month of December, an exhaustive questionnaire was ordered to be filled out by each registrant. To aid the men in this task, a Legal Advisory Board was created. There were appointed upon this Board all members of the Livingston County Bar and also Elmer N. Braley, Howell; John Wrigglesworth, Cohoctah; John Hilton. Brighton; Frank Dodd, Tyrone, and Alfred Pierson. Conway, who rendered gratuitous service to all registered men in filling out their questionnaires. If any claim for deferred classification (or exemption) was recorded on the questionnaire, the Local Board would consider the case from every standpoint, then recommend a certain action and forward the papers to the District Board at Lansing. This was a Board of Appeal for several counties around Ingham County. It was the District Board which made the decision. This was final if the Board was unanimous; if the Board was not unanimous appeal might be made to the President of the United States. Claims on family reasons were decided by the Local Board, on industrial grounds by the District Board. There were many young men who sought voluntary induction into the service. These men sought enlistment ahead of their call. Their papers were sent from the college or other station where application was received to the Local Board. If the Board had no existing call for a man, his papers we-e signed and returned. The Local Board would later receive orders when to call the man and where to send him. (Information secured from Mr. Lare, Mr. Hagman and Mr. Wines.) 92 Mr. VanWinkle Mrs. Huntington Mr. McPherson Mr. Francis J. Shields, Chairman THE COUNTY WAR BOARD Livingston County, Michigan The War Board of Livingston County was the central war organization of the county. Mr. Francis J. Shields was appointed by Governor Sleeper as chairman, with associates Mrs. W. C. Huntington, Mr. Wm. P. Van Winkle and Mr. Hugh A. McPherson. The Board received all its orders directly from the Governor and in turn saw to the execution of these orders through its organization, the Township War Boards throughout the entire county. The County War Board was called upon to boost every undertaking for the successful prosecution of the war. Its general supervision covered Liberty Loans, and Welfare Work campaigns, and every other call made by the government upon the citizens of the county. It even investigated and privately censured a few cases of pro-Germanism. It pointed out to several laggard citizens their duty as Americans. It stood ready to prove to all the one hundred per cent Americanism of the people of Livingston County. THE LIBERTY LOANS Hugh A. McPherson, The Liberty Loan organization antedates the formation of the County War Board. In fact, the War Board practically took over for the Township War Board work the organization which had been built for the earlier Liberty Loan Campaigns. Mr. Hugh A. McPherson was selected by the Fifth Federal Reserve Bank for this district as the head of the First Liberty Loan Drive. He in turn selected leaders in each township of the county. The quota of the county was divided proportionally among the townships and Howell City by Elmer N. Braley, County Treasurer, the township quotas being figured in proportion to the assessed valuation of property from the figures in the County Treasurer's office. The leaders in the townships selected their own committees to put the campaign "over the top." With the creation of the County War Board, the appointments of Mr. McPherson were confirmed in almost every case, to become a Township War Board under the chairmanship of the Township Supervisor. And in all succeeding campaigns, this Township War Board conducted County Chairman the campaign through a large committee of solicitors. No record has been kept in the county of the quota and subscriptions for the First and the Second Liberty Loans. The other campaigns were as follows: Third Liberty LoanQuota: $244,642. Subscribed: $389,500. Fourth Liberty LoanQuota: $448,700. Subscribed: $448,100. Victory Liberty LoanQuota: $339,650. Subscribed: $452,250. Every campaign was put on without a penny's expense to the government. We believe that Livingston County has done its share to make old Michigan rank second of the states of the Union in the support of our government's call for money. Report on the highest oversubscriptions to all Liberty Loans,-from "The Wall Street Journal", 29 Oct. 1919:-Connecticut, 49.98%; Alaska, 40 96%; District of Columbia, 39.66C%; Michigan, 35.70%. [We have published the reports of several of the Township War Boards. It has not been possible to gather and publish reports of each of these seventeen Boards. The reports included are rather typical of the work in every part of the county. The fine report of Conway Township, prepared by the secretary, Alfred Pierson, is typical of the work in a rural community.-The Editor.] THE CITY OF HOWELL By Don Van Winkle Howell City's share in the five Liberty Loan Campaigns, the War Savings Stamp campaign and the several campaigns to raise money for the Red Cross and the other patriotic purposes was in general charge of a committee of three. Homer Peavy, supervisor of the City of Howell, acting as chairman, the two other members were Don W. Goodnow and Henry H. Wines. This organiza tion was preserved intact for the period of the war. The City's quotas for the First and Second Liberty Loan and the first Red Cross Drive was raised and very largely exceeded by a house to house canvass. The four wards of the city were taken as units and each ward was in the hands of a chairman and his assistants. (continued on page 94) 93 TOWNSHIP WAR BOARDS Livingston County, Michigan 1. JOHN A. DEANE, Deerfield Twp. 2. GEORGE B. MERRILL, Chairman, Oceola Twp. 3. HENRY H. WINES, Howell City. County Director Red Cross. 4. HOMER A. PEAVEY, Howell City. 5. JAMES G. HAYES, Genoa Twp. 6. MAX W. BUEK, Chairman, Brighton Twp. 7. WILLIAM R. JUBB, Chairman, Deerfield Twp. Chairman, County Supervisors. 8. JOHN WRIGGLESWORTH, Cohoctah Twp. Member, Legal Advisory Board. 9. J. WEBSTER CHILDS, Chairman, Howell Twp. 10. JAMES GRUBB, Chairman, Hartland Twp. The City of Howell (continued from page 93) Dwight W. Monroe was chairman of the first ward, Chester O. Parshall of the second ward as long as his health permitted and when failing health compelled him to give up active direction of the work he was assisted by Freeman W. Fishbeck. The third ward was handled by E. D. Galloway until his death when the chairmanship was taken by S. S. Platt. J. S. Field acted as chairman of the fourth ward. To these men belong the credit for the intensive work that secured such a large ratio of subscriptions to population. Before the Third Liberty Loan was undertaken the general committee evolved and worked out the volunteer plan of subscriptions and it was used with such marked success in the Third Liberty Loan campaign that its use was continued through the other campaigns. Headquarters were opened in one of the down town business places and kept open for the purpose of receiving subscriptions the entire day. For one hour all business places were closed and the block of the subscriptions were obtained in the one hour. The city's quota for the Third Liberty Loan was oversubscribed over four times and the Fourth Liberty Loan subscriptions were nearly as large. The patriotism of the Citizens of Howell was evidenced by the fact that each quota set was largely over-subscribed. 11. FRED DILLINGHAM, Chairman, Conway Twp. 12. W. A. SALMON, Chairman, Tyrone Twp. 13. GALE PETERSON, Iosco Twp. 14. OSCAR SCHOENHALS, Chairman, Genoa Twp. 15. BERT CLARK, Tyrone Twp. 16. DANIEL C. RICHARDS, Chairman, Cohoctah Twp. 17. EDWARD F. WHITE, Deerfield Twp. 18. WHEATON A. HICKS, Chairman, Tyrone Twp. 19. JAMES LOUGHLIN, Green Oak Twp. 20. J. R. DAMMANN, Chairman, Hamburg Twp. County Director Red Cross. BRIGHTON'S RECORD By C. G. Rolison, Secretary, War Board, Brighton Township. Brighton Township's earnest efforts to do their bit, toward the winning of the World War, are well shown by the fact that oversubscriptions were taken to each and every Loan. Their ever increasing desire to bring our boys back victorious, is plainly shown by the two Loan Certificates which grace the walls of the Brighton State Bank. These citations show that the community's individual support could be so thoroughly relied upon that this bank was enabled to oversubscribe on their Certificates of Indebtedness two months prior to the launching of the Fourth and Fifth Loans. In addition to this, the people's support of both the Patriotic Fund and Thrift Stamp Campaigns were one hundred per cent plus. A great part of the success can well be attributed to the War Boards and Solicitors who so earnestly applied their best efforts to each and every part of the Fund Campaigns. CONWAY TOWNSHIP DURING THE WAR By Alfred Pierson, Secretary, Conway Township War Preparedness Board. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to preserve for ourselves and future generations the events in the progress of mankind, it behooves us to not alone preserve the history of individuals, but of a collective people. Therefore in giving the history of Conway Township's part in the finance and benevolent institutions of our "Great War," we wish not to give any individual history, but the history of the collective working and thinking people of this patriotic township. Our first collective work along this line was during June, 1917, when responding to a national call for a quota of $1,400 in the first Red Cross Drive. We met at the Benjamin School house and organized with Fred Dillingham, as chairman and Thorne Snyder as Secretary-Treasurer. We also decided to appoint a committee in each (continued on page 96) 94 ) TOWNSHIP WAR BOARDS 1. ALFRED PIERSON, Conway Twp. 2. OSCAR F. MERITHEW, Oceola Twp. 3. JOHN W. HILTON, Brighton Twp. Deputy Food Administrator. Legal Advisory Board. 4. CLAUDE G. ROLISON, Brighton Twp. 5. JOHN B. HOFFMAN, Tyrone Twp. 6. FRANK G. KNIGHT, Marion Twp. 7. JOHN SNYDER, Conway Twp. 8. GEORGE W. TEEPLE, Putnam Twp. 9. MARION J. REASON, Chairman, Putnam Twp. Four Minute Man. 10. BURTON T. STREET, Tyrone Twp. Conway Township During the War (continued from page 94) school district; to solicit each and every person. Suffice to say, this plan was a decided success for the people responded nobly and we secured not $1,400, but $1,874.69 which was paid to the County Red Cross Treasurer. Our SecretaryTreasurer was highly commended for his efficient and unselfish part in the collection and handling of this fund. Our next work was in the fall of 1917 when the Second Liberty Loan was floated. We again met and organized, choosing Fred Dillingham, chairman, and Alfred Pierson, secretary, with the same committeemen as in the first Red Cross Drive. We succeeded in subscribing $12,100 which did not equal our quota, but we vowed that would be the last time Conway Township would be a laggard. And it was. Scarcely had this drive closed when we were asked for $345 for "Y" purposes, which we subscribed within a week under the leadership of our chairman and Miss Leila Ward, Secretary-Treasurer. The ladies made this entire drive as "committee-ettes" and they did the work well. We rested during the winter of 1917-18, the only event along this line being the appointment by Governor Sleeper of Fred Dillingham, John Snyder and Alfred Pierson as permanent "War Preparedness Board of Conway Township." Our first work under this leadership was in April, 1918, when we subscribed $22,400 to the Third Liberty Loan, exceeding our quota by over $4,000. Uncle Sam's humanitarian funds were 11. REX GORTON, Marion Twp. 12. ARTHUR SHEHAN, Hamburg Twp. 13. HARRY N. SHARPE, Chairman, Unadilla Twp. 14. ASEL STOWE, Iosco Twp. 15. FRANK E. MEYERS, Genoa Twp. 16. SIDNEY SMITH, Green Oak Twp. 17. CHARLES C. MURRAY, Chairman, Green Oak Twp. 18. WILLIAM 0. RICHARDS, Oceola Twp. 19. HEMAN W. CLARK, Hartland Twp. 20. HENRY HUSKINSON, Hartland Twp. low again so we, with others, gave $1,276.63 in the second Red Cross Drive. People were giving and doing with a free hand and glad indeed were the committeemen for they again made their rounds for the sale of War Stamps, raising $20,635. When in October, 1918, we were asked for $32,600, our quota in the Fourth Liberty Loan, we thot we had reached our Waterloo. But Conway was backing us to a man and when the last day came we carried our full quota and were glad we were from Conway. But we must not fail to give to Mrs. S. R. Holmes a heartfelt thanks for her efficient help and co-operation in this, our hardest drive. The United War Fund soon called for more money which we gave to the amount of $1,190. This closed our benevolent gifts. With the opening of spring, 1919, came our last drive, the Victory Liberty Loan. We came thru with colors flying and $24,000 to our credit in "V" Bonds. This closed our war work. We have raised $111,735 in bonds and War Stamps and given $4,686.32 to benevolent funds. We are content; we of Conway can look every returned soldier in the face and looking toward the future feel that the victory was ours and the joys and sorrows can now be mutual. In closing, enough can not be said of the efficient, unselfish work and the friendly Americanlike co-operation of the men who have made the drives in the several school districts and by so doing made Conway what it is,-among the foremost patriotic townships of Livingston County. The following is a list of our committeemen: Floyd Wilkinson W. E. Teller John Finlan Bert Casady John Glenney Herman Loomis Alton Grant J. B. Allen Chas. Ward Walter Kelley Jas. Wilkinson Dan Glenney Elmer Dickerson Heber Wilkinson Walter Rathburn Henry Johnson F. D. Nichols Ansel Frost W. A. Worden W. I. Creppen S. R. Rickett A. E. McKenzie Walter Barnard C. W. Benjamin Ira Hempstead Raymond Allen Tunis Sherwood William Kuehn Ebb. Rosser Clifford Copeland M. T. Dillingham Sumner Grant Ross Robb Covert Sherwood Frank Dailey S. R. Holmes C. M. Sobers Walter Stuible S. G. Hall Frank Anderson J. B. Fuller Edward Gould C. E. Kingsley John Casady P. D. Parker George Stowe Fred Snell Fred Dillingham Chas. Rose George Royce Harry Smith Geo. Adams John Snyder Frank Hendryx Clay Gorden Frank Copeland Leonard Sobers George Wines John Yahn 96 ( WAR BOARDS 1. GEORGE BAKER, Chairman Iosco Township. 2. M. E. KUHN, Unadilla Township. 3. F. A. HOWLETT, Unadilla Township. 4. A. L. SMITH, Liberty Loan Canvasser. Organizer of parades and patriotic meetings. 5. WILL H. PEEK, Deputy Food Administrator. Organizer Fife & Drum Corps, Fowlerville. 6. ELMER N. BRALEY, Liberty Loan Canvasser. Legal Advisory Board. [No photos obtainable] FRED BERRY, War Board Howell Township. DON. W. GOODNOW, War Board Howell City. JAMES HARRIS, War Board Putnam Township. Four Minute Man. MAHLON PEARCE, War Board Cohoctah Township. WILL PEAVY, War Board Howell Township. GUS SMITH, Chairman War Board of Marion.. GEORGE VANHORN, War Board Hamburg Township. 98 1. Mr. Abbott 2. Mr. Blackmer 3. Judge Cole. 4. Mr. Richter. HANDY TOWNSHIP AND ITS WAR LEAGUE By Fred Richter, Secretary. [The formation of a patriotic league among the citizens of Fowlerville and vicinity, if not original, was at least a very clever idea. Its main purpose was to raise easily every demand for funds that came from the County War Board or the Red Cross and associated organizations. The citizens were grouped according to their financial standing, and practically assessed from one to many dollars per month in dues to be paid into the League Treasury. This assessment was the work of Fred Richter and Deo Blackmer, before the latter had enlisted. It was the work of Fred Richter to receive and account for these monthly payments. The size of this task can be estimated from the totals in his report herewith.-The Editor.] Handy Township, Livingston County and state of Michigan, has much to be proud of. When the loyalty of her citizens was at stake the patriotic zeal manifested was such as to place her 100 per cent and better in every quota asked for. Handy Township was very fortunate in having three men representing it as a War Board whose inflexible devotion to the cause of humanity, a rigid adherence to American ideals and a loyalty free from yellow streaks was most commendable. Too much credit cannot be accorded them as they made all sacrifices that presented themselves during the great struggle. They will go down in the history of the township as Red Blooded American citizens and these men are A. E. Cole, S. T. Blackmer and Fred K. Abbott. Mr. Cole opened his Law Office to the completion of the questionnaires of the hundreds of the drafted men from all surrounding townships and tendered his services to the government without compensation, which shows a loyalty for Democratic Institutions, a pride in faithful service. At the beginning of our entrance into the war during 1917, and previous to the organization of the Handy Township War League, the people of the Township of Handy had the very efficient services of our popular jeweler, Harry T. Blank, as custodian of the War Charity money. As a wide awake patriotic and zealous worker for Uncle Sam, he left nothing undone. The collection made in 1917 by Mr. Blank was nearly two thousand dollars. THE REPORT OF MR. BLANK. Early in January, of 1917, the people of Handy Township were called upon to assist financially in the great work of the Red Cross. Handy Township was assessed in the neighborhood of $1,500 as its share. This seemed like a tremendous sum to us at first, but a meeting of the business men was called at the office of A. E. Cole and the territory divided into several sections and one or two of the business men were appointed to take care of each section. At this time I was appointed as the first Treasurer of the Red Cross work. And through the efforts of these committees and the whole hearted Americanism of the people of Handy Township I was able to turn over to the Red Cross at the end of the year's work the sum of $1,985.13, over $400.00 more than was allotted to us. The success of all later drives was equally as good. H. T. BLANK. WAR LEAGUE. On May 18th, 1918, a meeting was called at the Law Office of A. E. Cole, which was attended by the public spirited citizens of the Township of Handy. Our familiarly and popularly known Judge Arthur E. Cole was elected chairman. After due consideration, a motion was unanimously carried to form what is known as the Handy Township War League of which officers were elected as follows: (continued on page 108) 99 FOUR MINUTE MEN 1. Edmund C. Shields, State Chairman, Lansing. 2. Willis L. Lyons, County Chairman, 1917-18. 3. A. Riley Crittenden, County Chairman, 1918. Howell Team4. Rev. L. S. Brooke (see also Army & Navy Section). Claude V. Courter (photo under County Red Cross). Rev. Joseph Dutton. L. E. Howlett (photo under Fuel Administration). 5. Rev. William Kotesky. H. A. McPherson (photo under County War Board). 6. W. E. Robb. 7. R. D. Roche (made more speeches, probably than any man in Livingston). 8. Rev. G. A. Sherman. 9. Judge E. A. Stowe. 10. Leon Stowe. W. P. VanWinkle (photo under County War Board). 11. Don VanWinkle. Francis J. Shields (photo under County War Board). Fowlerville Team12. Judge A. E. Cole. Geo. L. Adams (photo under The County Editors). Fred Richter (photo under Handy War League). Brighton13. Rev. E. E. Hench. Pinckney (appointed near the close of war). James M. Harris. Marion J. Reason (photo under War Boards). 100 Mrs. Huntington Miss Sharpe Mrs. Farnsworth Women's Committee COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE Mrs. W. C. Huntington, Chairman. An auxiliary of the Woman's Committee for Livingston County was organized in Howell in August, 1917. The officers were Miss Helen S. Norton, honorary chairman; Mrs. W. C. Huntington, chairman; Mrs. W. S. Farnsworth, vice chairman; Miss E. Alma Sharpe, secretary and treasurer, all of whom were retained in office till the work was finished, May, 1919. The county was divided into four units, which included all the townships. Mrs. Huntington was chairman of the Howell unit, Mrs. Hugh Aldrich, of the Fowlerville unit, Mrs. John Strick, of the Brighton unit and Mrs. C. VanWinkle, of the Pinckney unit. A chairman was appointed for each township, and each township chairman had a worker in each school district. In this way every woman in the county was reached. The County Chairman was also County Chairman of Food Conservation, and this organization was called upon to do that work which was to distribute literature and to obtain signatures to the food pledge cards sent out by the Food Administration. 92 per cent of the women of Livingston County signed the cards. The registration of the women of the county for any war work proved their patriotism. 95 per cent registered. Some school districts reported 100 per cent. The organization in every way rendered efficient service. THE FOUR MINUTE MEN OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY The Four Minute Men of Livingston County were organized with Willis L. Lyons, as chairman. They took an active part in all the patriotic drives, speaking in the school houses, churches and theatres, and were great factors in putting Livingston County "over the top" in all the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., and Liberty Loan campaigns. Their rule was that their cause was strong and that they could afford to be frank and open, ready to concede doubt, wherever doubt rightfully existed, and making no claims beyond what they knew to be true, and thus standing on the rock of fairness, honesty being their armor, frankness and fairness their weapons. After becoming a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, W. L. Lyons resigned so that the Four Minute Men's work might not be said to be connected with political affairs. A. Riley Crittenden was appointed chairman, serving until the end of the war. W. L. LYONS. A. Riley Crittenden had been engaged in the Four Minute Men activities in St. Charles, Michigan, previous to his work in Livingston County. As a member of that team he had spoken in four states besides Michigan. Mr. Lyons and Mr. Crittenden were awarded the "honor emblem" of the Four Minute Men. Each member of the Four Minute Men was given the "bar pin." In this connection it should be mentioned that the energetic and efficient state chairman of the Four Minute Men of Michigan was Edmund C. Shields of Lansing, an old Howell boy, born and raised in Livingston County. 101 Mr. McPherson Mr. Howlett FEDERAL FUEL ADMINISTRATION FOR LIVINGSTON COUNTY. By R. Bruce McPherson, Chairman. (A Livingston County boy-Henry P. T. Van Keuren-was executive secretary of the Federal Fuel Administration of Michigan, with headquarters at Lansing. He is the son of James I. and Fanny (Morgan) Van Keuren; born 16 May, 1879, in Oceola Township.-Editor.) When, in the spring of 1917, the United States entered the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary, it was apparent to all that we were confronted with a tremendous task, and that we must not only furnish men and munitions, and everything that is necessary for conducting the war, but there was the still greater necessity that they should be delivered with the greatest possible speed. In order that every industry and every channel of activity might be diverted to the one purpose of winning the war, the Government was forced to arbitrarily take over such industries as could be made to serve its needs with the greatest efficiency and dispatch,-to take what supplies it needed, and to exercise control over all supplies of every nature, to see that there should be at all times a supply available for the needs of the Government. This, then, was the reason for the great number of Federal Agencies having control over Food, Fuel, the Railroads, Shipping, etc. The Federal Fuel Administration was created in 1917 with practically absolute powers over fuel supplies in the Nation, and Dr. Harry A. Garfield was selected by President Wilson as Federal Fuel Administrator. Dr. Garfield named a State Fuel Administrator for each state in the Union, choosing Mr. W. K. Prudden, a prominent Lansing manufacturer and capitalist, as Federal'Fuel Administrator for Michigan, who in turn selected a man in each county as Chairman of the County Fuel Administration. R. Bruce McPherson, of Howell, was chosen Federal Fuel Administrator for Livingston County, and completed the organization of the Livingston County Fuel Committee by the selection of Louis E. Howlett, attorney, and Richard E. Barron, agricultural implement dealer, both of Howell, as the other members of the Committee. During the winter of 1916-17, many communities had suffered from a serious shortage of fuel. In Howell, many people were forced to close their houses, and coal could be bought only in five hundred pound lots. This was before war had been declared, and naturally it was feared conditions would not be better when we were engaged in war. Factories, already rushed with work on orders for war materials for the Allied Powers, were now crowded to still further limits; new factories sprang up like mushrooms in order to secure the desired output of munitions of war; railroads were forced to increase their already congested traffic to carry the heavy volume of materials to the factories, and then to transport the finished materials to the seaboard for ocean shipment; ocean traffic was increased to the limit of available shipping, and the ship-building industry was stimulated to an unheard of volume to combat the menace of the German Submarine Campaign; the large movements of men to the camps, their removal to the seaboard, and transport to the scene of conflict; the consequent increase in movement of coal to the coast to take care of increased ocean traffic, increased export for commercial purposes and for heating in American camps abroad; the large number of training camps in this country as well as abroad called for huge quantities of coal for heating during the cold season; these and countless other demands for fuel, in addition to the quantities always needed for domestic and industrial purposes, brought the Federal Fuel Administration face to face with a problem that was literally staggering. The call for volunteers for the Army and the operation of the selective draft still further complicated the situation by taking from the mines their quota of men for the Army, thus making it impossible to increase the working forces there, and pressing those who were left to the greatest efforts to maintain production to take care of heavy demands for fuel. Briefly, this was the situation when, in November, 1917, the Livingston County Fuel Administration took up its tasks. The dealers of the County were required to furnish a detailed statement of their business for the preceding year, these forming a basis to be used in the allotment of coal for the current year. It was the intent of the Fuel Administration that the dealers should continue to carry on their business with their customers as usual, so far as circumstances should permit, and the Fuel Administration had jurisdiction principally over the matter of margin of profit allowed dealers, price for which coal was to be sold by the mines, and the most even distribution possible of the supply forthcoming. Prices of coal at the mines were fixed by the Administration, and dealers were allowed a margin, varying with the size of the city or town in which they operated, over the cost of the coal and transportation. Almost before the Committee had time to organize and make their preliminary survey, the weather turned cold and a long hard winter was upon us, in fact, one of the very most severe winters known for more than a generation back. Snow storms and blizzards tied up the railroads so that for days freight could not be moved, and this, combined with the bitterly cold weather, caused widespread suffering. Stocks of coal were abnormally low. and in many places were completely exhausted. Emergency coal orders through the Fuel Administration were resorted to, and this afforded some relief. Several boatloads of coal, consigned to ports up the Lakes, but unable to proceed on account of ice, were seized and unloaded, and the coal distributed to communities where the need was most pressing. Non-essential industries were closed, all business offices and stores were forced to shorten their hours of business, street and interior lighting were reduced to a minimum, and all electric display advertising and window lighting were discontinued, in an effort to reduce the consumption of fuel. Every conceivable measure was taken that would help to conserve the supply of fuel; all industries were classified as to the relative importance of their output or service, only those producing food supplies or munitions of war, or performing some vitally necessary service, being allowed a supply of fuel. The winter of 1917-18 will long be remembered as one of the hardest winters known, one that would have left a vivid memory even with normal fuel supplies. A great sense of relief was experienced by all when the spring of 1918 openel up. However, a vast amount of organization work was necessary in order that all possible preparation might be made to meet the conditions that might be expected to obtain during the winter that was to come. In order to simplify the transportation problem, zoning systems were adopted, thus avoiding a large amount of duplicating shipments in opposite directions, as well as extremely long hauls where unnecessary. Also, the Government (continued on page 110) 102 THE POSTMASTERS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY. 1. LEWIS HART, Fowlerville. 5. JAMES STACKABLE, Gregory. 2. WILLIAM H. S. WOOD, Howell. 6. REUBEN A. KISBY, Hamburg. 3. S. S. CAMPBELL, Oak Grove. 7. CLIO S. CASE, Brighton. 4. ROLAND C. MINER, Cohoctah. 8. GEORGE T. ARTHUR, Hartland. THE UNITED STATES POSTOFFICE IN THE WORLD WAR By William H. S. Wood, Postmaster. Howell. The United States Postal Service, reaching from the seat of government at Washington to every hamlet and home in the land became immediately the monster medium of war activities. Not only had it before been active in securing enlistments to the army and navy and marines, but now it actually sent them promptly to the recruiting office; within a week Herold Burnett was on his way, a volunteer from Howell, soon to be followed by Harry Hosely, both of whom were wounded in battle and the former one the last to return from the front. G. D. Monroe, formerly a substitute city carrier in Howell postoffice enlisted in the marines, was wounded in action, but returned safely at the close. Postmaster General Burleson in an address at the Conference of representatives of business organizations and the postal service at Washington, D. C., on April 1, 1919, said: "We soon learned that every department of the Government upon which a war activity had been imposed that was national in scope immediately, when it understood the task that was to be performed, turned to the Postal establishment as the one department of the Government that had a nation-wide organization thoroughly effective that could do things. Some of the most unusual, highly important and extraordinary activities were imposed upon the Postal establishment during the war." Look at the windows of our Howell or any postoffice during the war. Look at the bulletins upon the lobby walls. Changing daily, weekly, monthly, according to the spur of the call, were pictures, placards, plans, proposals, push, patriotism, patience, power. Billions in loans to be floated, millions of men to be measured, mental activities to be spurred. moral obligations to be mentioned, tons of printed propaganda to be properly posted, organizations of service of all kinds to be promoted, such was the extra and enormous task that the postal service was at once drafted into and performed with quiet quickness and steadfast energy. War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps were -advertised and sold by every postoffice, rural and city carrier and clerk in the country. Howell is a central accounting office, the other ten offices in the county sending for postage, thrift, war savnS iand war revenue stamps, which are sent tbnp,- the verv first mail after requisition and remittance therefor is received. Beginning Dec. 1, 1917,:n)r)roximatelv three hundred thousand dol1'ars of W1-ar Savings money was collected in Livingston County and passed on to help win thwar, first over the desk of the postmaster of Howell to the postoffice at Detroit and on into the United States Treasury. On June 28, 191,. the amount received and remitted was $33,634.00. the big day of the drive, some of this being in the smallest sum- of 25 cents for one thrift stmnion to a school child, or two hundred larger stamps, the one thousand dollar limit to some patriotic farmer or investor. All classes of citizens came to the aid of Uncle Sam in trouble, and but few began to withdraw until after the armistice. To keep a stock on hand, to promptly supply the public and the postoffices in the county, to collect, remit, and repay, all were extra duties taking time and it is a no small measure of pride that during the 24 months from the beginning of the sale of War Savings Stamps until the present date but one lone communication ever came from the department as to these accounts and that was to call for a duplicate certificate of deposit. So as distributors of mail in governmental drives, Red Cross activities, hospital assistance, to sending parcels, money orders and letters to the American Expeditionary Forces; as recruiting agents of the Army, Navy and Marines, spreading income tax and army questionnaires, in registering alien enemies and co-operating with the Department of Justice, an employment agency for labor, in promoting food conservation, and the exclusion of seditious matter, the sending of properly examined, packed, addressed and forwarded packages to soldier boys from anxious mothers or loving wives and sisters, or the immediate delivery here of letters from Over There. All of these, to all the postoffice force everywhere in the country meant constant attention to duty and detail, alertness, alacrity, accuracy in operation, adaptability to circumstances each different, arising constantly at the window, on the route, or in the street, and these were done with patience and fidelity, here, there and everywhere in the service with satisfaction to patrons and pulblic generally. THE HOWXVEIL POSTOFFICE Harry Howe, substitute carrier of Route One over which his father had carried mails for 20 xyars. went into the navy and across many times. Bird Hight. a postoffice clerk was called near the close but did not get across. The official force of the How-ell office during the war was: William H. S. Wood, postmaster; Jessie E. Brayton. assistant; KeFnneth L. Gran-er, money ord(r clerk; Sarah Cooper, typist and distributing clerk: L. Arthur Willard, general clerk; Rose D. Hildebrant, Paul L. W'heelock, and Albert Pardy, citv carriers; Geor-e Howe, George Nichols, Fred A. Lwivis, Fred P. Dean, Elmer L. Ellsworth. Robert E. Harris, Joel R. Crittenden and Floyd Perki'-s were the rural carriers. Thb finarcial transactions of all kinds of the Howell nostoffice during the war were above a million dollqrs, the Wrar Savings Stamn) snles of tlh coO(,,+v alone being above three hundred thousand dollars. A nearlIy complete set of War Posters wRns filed from time to time by Postmaster Wood in the museum of the Carnegie Library. 103 THE EDITORS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY 1. GEORGE BARNES, of Barnes and Caverly, "The Livingston Republican", Howell. Veteran of the Civil War. 2. JOHN RYAN, "The Livingston Democrat", Howell. 3. GEORGE L. ADAMS, "The Fowlerville Review", Fowlerville. Four Minute Man. The editors of a freedom-loving people are among that people's most influential citizens. They mould public opinion. The nations at war found that the press, for military reasons, must be carefully supervised. Immediately upon our entry into the war, President Wilson appointed George Creel at the head of The Committee on Public Information. The drastic measures which they took in their determination to control opinion made them often very unpopular, but now that the war is over and a complete story of their world-wide activities has come forth, we realize they played a tremendous part in the winning of the war. THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION G. C. Yelland, Administrator for Livingston County. One of the most important organizations du:ring the late war was the Food Administration. Glenn C. Yelland, Attorney at Howell, was appointed Food Administrator for Livingston County on Aug. 13, 1917. Appointed as he was at a time when the most rigid rules of the government governing the sale and distribution of food were in force, he set about to organize an efficient Food Administration in the county. The sugar regulations of the government were the strictest during the time Mr. Yelland served as Food Administrator and the duties of this office were cumbersome. He could be found at his desk from early morn till late at night issuing sugar certificates to the people that thronged his office for sugar for canning purposes. Owing to the fact that there was too much work for one man to do to look after the whole county, Mr. Yelland was assisted by Deputies Wm. Peek of Fowlerville, John Hilton of Brighton, J. S. Stackable of Gregory, Wm. Murphy of Pinckney, Wm. Trowbridge of Cohoctah and Mrs. Yelland, who were appointed by Mr. Prescott, Federal Food Administrator for Michigan, and who rendered invaluable service to their country in the performance of the duties of their offices. Mr. Yelland and all of his deputies worked untiringly in their efforts to serve their country and these men received no salary for their services, but gave their time and services as a patriotic duty. 4. SETH B. JACOBS, "The Brighton Argus", Brighton. 5. L. E. SMITH, "The Pinckney Despatch", Pinckney. A. RILEY CRITTENDEN, "The Livingston Reporter", Howell. (Founded near close of war.) Veteran Spanish-American War. Photo among Four Minute Men. During the war the editors were called upon for numerous and varied contributions to our government. The calls for men and money, the need for food and fuel conservation, the building of morale for a victory, all reached the people through the editors. For the editors wield that mighty instrument, The Press. The editors gave nobly to the winning of the war. Much of their space was gratuitous. They refrained from printing the news which the government had censored. They postponed politics until victory was ours. They gave time, energy, money. Our patriotic Press is the hope of our Republic. FROM THE SCRAP BOOK. American forces in the Archangel Sector suffered 553 casualties, according to complete records of the War Department. The contingent in the Russian campaign consisted of the 339 Infantry and the 310 Engineers. They arrived there in August, 1918, and were withdrawn in June, 1919. Of the casualties 109 were due to deaths in battle, 35 to deaths from wounds, 81 were from disease and 19 from accidents and other causes. There were 305 wounded and four prisoners, all of whom were released.-The Home Sector. The 28 Division lost the most prisoners. The Boches took 18 of their officers and 714 men. Six of the 12,000 Americans who fought with the Canadian Army won the Victoria Cross. One out of every 2,000 Americans was awarded the decoration; one out of every 8,000 Canadians, and one out of every 28,000 other British fighting men. -The Home Sector. 104 ORSON A. ROSE POST NO. 215, AMERICAN LEGION Fowlerville, Michigan By Major I. Bravener, Post Commander Orson A. Rose Post No. 215, Fowlerville, Michigan, was established almost entirely thru the efforts of Charles Coll, a charter member and the first adjutant of the post. Mr. Coll was the first man to be inspired with the thot that a post could be organized in our small village. He laid his plans before two of the present charter members and they readily agreed to help him. At once information was written for and received. In order to obtain a charter, fifteen members were necessary. This was accomplished in one week. It was agreed the first meeting would be held on Tuesday night, November 11, 1919. At that meeting each charter member became a committee of one to register new members. So successful has been the work in our small community that by the end of 1919 we had a membership of 37. At the first meeting, the name of the post was declared, the ORSON A. ROSE POST NO. 215, in memory of an old friend, a member of the 126th Infantry, 32nd Division, who was killed over there. (See Memorial Section-Ed.) The men elected temporary officers from their midst: Post Commander, Major I. Bravener; First Vice-Commander, Ray Sherwood; Second Vice-Commander, Lloyd E. Copeland; Post Adjutant, Chas. -I. Coll; Post Finance Officer, Orla Don Risdon; Post Historian, Percy A. Dunn; Post Chap'ain, Flex B. Smith. These men with the following were the charter members of the post: Deo M. Blackmer, Lester F. Huff, William Ireland, Chas. Jackson, Andrew Linquist, J. D. Lockwood, Oscar Dan Rose, B. Tobin. The foundation for the American Legion found birth and growth in Fowlerville very successful, and long may it continue. VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES Albert L. Roberts Post, No. 203, Howell, Mich. The Veterans of Foreign Wars is a national A charter was granted on 19 September, 1919, organization of men who have served in cam- to the Albert L. Roberts Post No. 203, City of paigns against an enemy, outside the territorial Howell. At the initial meeting the following limits of the United States. Its membership may members took the obligation: include: "any officer or honorably discharged of- Andrew Anderson Luther L. Haight ficer or enlisted man who has served or may Royal R. Bennett Willis L. Lyons serve in the army, navy, or marine corps of the Wm. Irving Brayton Floyd W. Lowe United States of America, in any foreign war, Francis D. Bush Norman W. Loree for which the government of the United States Clifford W. Coleman Galen A. Phillips issues a campaign badge." John Comisky Edwin F. Roberts The Howell post was formed on the written Clarence Dieterle Wm. H. Stephens application for a charter by Wm. H. Stephens, Dwight Euler John H. Zmuda. Willis L. Lyons, Dwight Euler, Luther L. Haight, The following were the first officers of the new Royal R. Bennett, Edwin F. Roberts, John H. post: Commander Francis D. Bush; Senior ViceZmuda, Wm. I. Brayton, Cecil L. Wrigglesworth, Commander John H. Zmuda; Junior Vice-ComNorman W. Loree, Andrew Anderson, Chas. K. mander Edwin F. Roberts; Quartermaster Galen Culver, Francis D. Bush, Gerald K. Wines, Galen A. Phillips; Chaplain Dwight Euler; Officer of A. Phillips, Clifford W. Coleman, Ezra F. Meyer, the Day Clarence Dieterle; Trustees: Willis L. Floyd W. Loree, Clarence Dieterle, John Comisky, Lyons, 18 mo.; Clifford W. Coleman, 12 mo.; Max F. Hagman, Clifton F. Smith, James W. Norman W. Loree, 6 mo.; Willis L. Lyons, acting Rabbage. Adjutant. 105 The First Officers of the Brighton Post, American Legion Top row, left to right: Meredith L. Pitkin, Ex. Cor. 3 yrs., Post Historian; A. Burchard Bitten, Ex. Com. 2 yrs.; William L. Weston, Senior Vice-Commander; Trevor D. Rickett, Post Finance Officer; Ralph Hamburger, Junior Vice-Commander. Seated, left to right: G. Eric Singer, Post Adjutant; David F. Reed, Post Commander. JESSE B. COOLEY POST NO. 235, AMERICAN LEGION Brighton, Michigan Post was organized in December, 1919. Present Membership, thirty. Those who signed application for Charter: David F. Reed, Trevor D. Rick ett, G. Eric Singer, Robert F. Blatchford, William L. Weston, Russell C. Shannon, Ralph Hamburger, Arthur B. Bitten, Meredith L. Pitkin, Gliff K. Collett, Miles Prosser, Leon Seger, Harlo A. Pless, Lawrence Leitmeier, Herbert Kourt. VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR A GROUP FROM BRIGHTON, MICHIGAN IN 1919. LEFT TO RIGHT: STANDING, HENRY L. CRIPPEN, JAMES J. SMITH, JOSEPH W. FRANCIS, JAMES SHANKS, DANIEL L. SMITH LEFT TO RIGHT: STANDING, HENRY L. CRIPPEN, JAMES J. SMITH. SEATED, CHARLES A. KELLEY, HENRY B. APPLETON, ERNEST M. CRIPPEN, WILLIAM W. PENTLIN, LOUIS H. WESTPHAL. 106 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC Brighton Post 29 May, 1904 Left to right. Standing-J. Wesley Fulton, Dr. H. P. Martin, Alden G. Carpenter, William H. Halleck (died 16 Aug. 1913), William W. Pentlin, Rev. E. H. Bradfield, Fred H. Miller (died 29 Aug. 1915), Henry L. Crippen, Henry B. Appleton, Benj. T. O. Clark (died 22 Sept. 1916), Prof. M. E. Valentine, John Sawyer (died 3 June 1918). Seated-J. K. VanArsdale (deceased), Wallace L. Long, Charles Jacobs, Louis H. Westhal, Dr. Arthur E. Boylan (died 19 April 1907), James Shanks, Ernest M. Crippen, Daniel L. Smith, James Boylan (died 4 Jan. 1913), Henry Paddock. THE MEN OF '61-'65 1. A. L. HERRINGTON, Civil War Veteran. 2. MILES W. BULLOCK, Civil War Veteran. 3. H. H. COLLINS, 1st Lieut, Co. C, 9 Mich. Cavalry. Died 8 Jan. 1920, Ann Arbor. 4. A. F. PEAVY, Civil War Veteran. 5. WILLIAM W. KENYON, Civil War Veteran. 6. EDGAR NOBLE, Civil War Veteran. 7. LYMAN B. WHITAKER, Civil War Veteran. 8. J. B. FISH, Civil War Veteran. 9. ASA PARSHALL, Civil War Veteran. 10. ROBERT GRISWOLD, Civil War Veteran. The War League of Handy (continued from page 99) A. E. Cole, Chairman; S. T. Blackmer, 1st ViceChairman; F. K. Abbott, 2nd Vice-Chairman; Fred Richter, Secretary; G. Newman, Treasurer. A motion was carried which placed an advisory committee of representative men of the township at the back of the League who at all times were responsible for the great success that the League attained. These men are: 11. JOSEPH BOUSCHEY, Civil War Veteran. 12. FRANK WATKINS, Civil War Veteran. 13. MARSHALL BORDEN, Civil War Veteran. 14. IRA E. HOLT, Civil War Veteran. 15. H. J. SWEET, Civil War Veteran. 16. JOSEPH W. FRANCIS, Civil War Veteran. 17. DR. AARON COOPER, Civil War Veteran. 18. JOHN J. GANNON, Sgt. Co M 35 Mich Vol. Inf. SpanishAmerican War. Died 1912 in Philippines. 19. ALBERT F. WARD, Civil War Veteran. 20. FRANK JORDAN, Civil War Veteran. The total amount collected at the termination of hostilities by the War League was $4,826.25. No history of the activities of the Township of Handy during the World War would be complete without special mention of the duties performed by Fred Richter as secretary of the Township of Handy War League, and of Miss Winifred E. Faunce, Mrs. Ada Sprague, Mrs. Minnie Hall and Frank Lane in the assistance rendered by them in making out the questionnaires for the men called for examination and induction into the service; these services all being rendered without compensation other than a gratification of their sense of loyalty to the Government and with a zeal and efficiency that were commendable. Yours truly, A. E. COLE. Ozias Judd George VanBuren Cecil A. Dey Wm. Berry Rollie Smith George Eckhart Edward House Fred Steiner Fred Kuhn E. W. Burkhart Herbert Grant G. L. Adams F. G. Rounsville Dr. E. D. Wilson Burr D. Grover Prof. Earl P. Finch C. D. Hamilton Freely Calkins John C. Ellsworth H. T. Blank Michael Mulvaney John Klunzinger The Handy Township War League has five hundred thirty-two active members on the pay roll. Every member signed a card and was very prompt in his or her monthly or quarterly assessment and which said amount of monthly dues was vouched for by every member during the length of the World's contest. An organization for arousing enthusiasm and stimulating patriotic interest at many gatherings in Fowlerville was the Fife and Drum Corps, organized by W. H. Peek. Besides Mr. Peek, others who took part in the work were Joel Parsons, A. E. Benjamin, Ruel Curtis, and Gus Klein. 108 109 THE MEN OF '61-'65 and THE WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS 1. WESLEY ROGERS, 11. CHARLES A. KELLEY, Civil War Veteran. Civil War Veteran. 2. EMMA G. SWEET, 12. MRS. CORA BALLS, Woman's Relief Corps. Woman's Relief Corps. 3. A. W. LANNING, 13. MRS. ALICE FISHBECK, Civil War Veteran. Woman's Relief Corps. 4. MRS. IRA E. HOLT, 14. ERNEST HICKS, Woman's Relief Corps. Spanish-American War Veteran. 5. JOEL H. DYKES, 15. MRS. A. A. WINES, Civil War Veteran. Woman's Relief Corps. 6. JOSEPH VAN AMBURG, 16. MRS. FRANK WATKINS, Civil War Veteran. Woman's Relief Corps. 7. HENRY G. THOMPSON, 17. CHARLES MAXTED, Civil War Veteran. Civil War Veteran. 8. WILLIAM H. H. SEGER, 18. MRS. NORMA DEAN, Civil War Veteran. Woman's Relief Corps. 9. MRS. MILES W. BULLOCK, 19. G. A. BIDWELL, Woman's Relief Corps. Civil War Veteran. 10. MRS. A. ETTA MARKEL, 20. MRS. AMANDA DICKERSON, Woman's Relief Corps. Woman's Relief Corps. Federal Fuel Administration (continued from page 102) requisitioned supplies of anthracite and other smokeless coals for use in transports and ocean freight carrying vessels when passing through the submarine danger zone, thus reducing their risk of being sighted and attacked by submarines. This measure also considerably reduced the supply of these coals for domestic consumption. Therefore, new regulations for consumers were necessary. As baseburners were considered the most economical heaters, and as they could not be successfully operated with any but hard coal, these received the preference in the distribution of hard coal. A registration of the baseburner users of Howell and the outlying community served by Howell dealers, was had, and these were to be allowed a maximum of six tons each, the first allotment being one ton each until all had the first ton delivered, so that all might have a supply to start in the winter. Users of hot-air furnaces were allowed not to exceed fifty per cent of their regular requirements in hard coal, and only in exceptional cases were these allowed hard coal until it became evident that the baseburners would be taken care of. Only for special types of hot water and steam boilers was hard coal allowed. Also an effort was made to have dealers order their supplies as early as possible, so that it could be moved before transportation became difficult, and consumers were urged to place their orders with the dealers early, so that all possible preparations could be completed, and in order that emergency cases might have attention without interfering with the regular business of the dealers. Fuel economy was preached at every opportunity, and much newspaper publicity was secured along this line. Also, consistent efforts were made to encourage the use of wood in all possible cases, thus releasing for other uses the coal that normally would have been consumed. However, the intensity of the war effort was constantly being increased, adding daily to the output of war materials, and of course ever cont..-ing the supply of fuel for the less essential in-astries and for domestic use, and the Committee looked forward to the coming winter with no little apprehension. Happily, the signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, caused a letting up of the intense campaign of production, and gradually restrictions were removed, until on March 1, 1919, the Fuel Committee was released from service. Summed up briefly, the Federal Fuel Administration accomplished the following results: Saved an immense amount of cross-shipping, thus relieving the railroads of an equal amount of freight at a time when they could not take care of it. Kept the margin of profit to dealers within reasonable limits, thus keeping down the cost to consumers. This, combined with the fixing of prices for coal at the mines, eliminated the extremely high prices that ordinarily attend such a demand. Secured a more equal distribution of fuel to consumers than would have been possible otherwise. Enforced economies saved fuel that would have otherwise been wasted in non-essential uses. Many other beneficial results were obtained, but had these alone been the benefits, they would have more than justified the creation of the Federal Fuel Administration. One of the most direct benefits derived was the assurance given to the industries engaged in producing munitions of war that they would have a supply of fuel for their needs. Naturally, the Federal Fuel Administration had occasion to make itself very- unpopular with that element of the population that is not so situated as to be able to view the needs of the country at large. One has only to imagine the problems confronting Fuel Administrator Garfield and his staff in the National Field, to see readily that, owing to the constant pressure on industry to produce more and more munitions of war, the intense strain on the railroads to move these materials, both before and after manufacture, the constant movement of troops to and from camps and to the seaboard, the large and insistent demands for ocean traffic in order to keep our forces abroad supplied with their needs, and to keep the stream of men coming to their aid, and the multiplicity of other uses which the Government had for coal, some sharp lines had to be drawn in order to be sure there would be enough to supply these needs, and supply them promptly. Attacks upon the Federal Fuel Administration, both National and State, and its rulings, were many and varied. Locally, however, there was apparently very little direct protest against the Committee, consumers and dealers with very few exceptions accepting conditions with patriotic cheerfulness, thus making easier the carrying out of the County Fuel Administration program. The various publications in the county were generous in giving space for all announcements to the public. This co-operation, of dealers, publishers, and the consuming public, with the Committee, has always been a source of satisfaction to the Committee, and has made bearable a task that might otherwise have proven an almost impossible burden. 0 111 THE FOWLERVILLE HOME GUARDS Fowlerville, Mich. [Right to Left] First Row (Seated) TOM SHARP WILL IRELAND C.G. SOPP ROY GROVER JAMES FOSTER, Musician. DEVILO SABIN, Corporal. HAROLD PEABODY L. ROSE J. C. SHERWOOD, Corporal. ALGER MERRILL RALPH EMMONS EARNEST BENJAMIN GEO. SWEETEN GEO. EMMONS Second Row (Kneeling) ORLA HALL WILLIAM SMITH HOWARD WHITE T. D. SHERWOOD BEN SHOOTER RAY RATHBUN AMOS EMMONS ORSON SOBERS WALTER VETTER CLEVE COPELAND DR. LYLE LING, Corn. Sergeant. LOYD LIVERANCE, Corporal. JAMES WAINWRIGHT EVERT SOBERS OTTO MEADER Third Row (Standing) JOS. G. BUCK, Captain. WILL ALEXANDER, 1st Lieut. ARTHUR KRAUSE, 1st Sergeant. ROY RATHBUN FRED S. SNELL NELSON SHOOTER ARTHUR GRIEVES L. D. COFFEE JOHN SHARP EARL SHERWOOD FRED CONVERSE ROY HORTON CLAUDE WINEGAR WILLIAM SMITH FRANK SHAFFER FRED WAINWRIGHT GEO. BAKER, Corporal. EARL MEADER, Corporal. DEWEY ROSE, A. E. F. JOHN LAYTON Not in photo. FREEMAN MANNING, 2nd Lieut. JOHN VOGT, Supply Sergeant. CURT CARDOTTE, Duty Sergeant. DEO BLACKMER, Corp., A. E. F. LYLE HOUSE, Corporal. PrivatesCHARLES ALLEN E. BRANDELL ROY BROWN WALTER BROWN HOWARD GOULD CLYDE GATES LEMUAL HEDJCAN ROLLAND HORTON DR. C. H. LAMOREAUX WILLIAM LOREE ED McCRARY OTTO MEYERS S. W. THOMPSON. 112 HIGH SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS OF THE UNITED STATES Howell High School, Michigan, 1918-1919 By Don B. Wines. In September, 1918, a High School Cadet Corps was organized in the Howell High School under the direct supervision of Superintendent C. V. Courter and Instructor A. E. Case. The officers were appointed after a period of two weeks of drilling. Three companies were formed, in order that the cadets might be drilled to a better advantage, and a 1st Lieutenant was given command of each company. The battalion was commanded by the Captain. The companies were drilled twice each week, one hour and a half at each period, and the cadets were required to report every morning before school at eight o'clock and every noon before school at twelve-thirty o'clock for one-half an hour of calisthenics. The cadets participated in the parades of November seventh and eleventh and again on Decoration Day. Following is the Battalion Roster: Captain Francis Flynn, Battalion Commander. Company B. Company A. Lieutenant, B. Browne 1st Sergeant, Charles Stevens Corporals: Adams, Earl Beurmann, Duane Clarke, Kenneth Cadets: Bergin, Raymond Brayton, Wayne Burtch, Homer Deane, Leo. Dolph, Harold Gregory, Payson Johnson, Fred Love, Henry Mynahan, Percy McQueen, Harvey McQuillan, Norman Odell, Wellington Richards, Emerson Richards, Sherman Schnackenberg, C. Smith, Jack Snedicor, Marshall Stowe, Harold Stroble, Harold Wellman, Lloyd White, Carl Company C. Lieutenant, G. F. Hacker 1st Sergeant, Walter Pratt Corporals: Deane, James Hagman, William Weiss, S. L. Cadets: Allen, Fred Backus, R. C. Bamber, Lawrence Beck, Sherman Crittenden, Burr Fishbeck, Bruce Fishbeck, Kenneth Fournier, Archie Griffin, Richard Howe, George Kellogg, Clifford Line, Winfield Lyons, Wendell Miner, Clarence McQuillan, Sylvan Parker, Edward Reed, Willard Smith, Harold Smith, Bailey Wessinger, Lyle Worthington, S. Lieutenant, D. B. Wines 1st Sergeant, Joseph Brady Corporals: Adams, James Bergin, Giles Line, Francis Cadets: Bohm, Wilton Boyd, Raymond Briggs, John Carlson, S. Chubb, Harold Gregory, Alex. Gurden, Alger Hoffman, C. Jubb, Sherman Marr, Eugene Martin, Joy Melendy, Royal McPherson, J. D. Parsons, Ralph Platt, Charles Purdy, Morrice Rice, Herbert *Taft, Lloyd Taylor, C. Townley, Hugh Worthington, G. * Deceased. THE FOWLERVILLE HOME GUARDS The Fowlerville Home Guards were organized on the 26th day of June, 1918, for the purpose of rendering service to the state if needed during the war, also preparing men in the rudimentary military tactics for military service in the United States Army. The company drilled twice a week, taking up the position of a soldier, squads, platoon and company movements, then the manual of arms carrying this out into the competitive drill stage. The ardor and patriotism with which the men and officers took hold of the work made it a success from the start and with the aid financially of the business men and citizens we were able to procure our uniforms. Yours for the U. S. A. and The Red, White and Blue, J. G. BUCK, Captain. The Doctors' Part in the War The doctors of America made as great a patriotic service to the nation in the war as any class we have. Possibly, they contributed the most in proportion to their numbers. On November 11, 1918, there were 3,096 doctors in the Navy and 31,398 in the Army. The doctors suffered the following losses: Killed in action............................. 45 Missing in action......................... 7 Wounded in action........................... 211 Died of wounds............................ 22 Died of accident............................. 5 Lost at sea............................. 4 Died of sickness............................. 101 Taken prisoners............................. 38 Total.................................... 433 Revised figures on the total casualties in Paris caused by German long range guns and airplane raids are 521 persons killed and 1,224 wounded. 113 Rottnmm Raw- lpff. fn -riorhf-. Frank M. Lansing, "U -U 1vW 1U-wU Uv riglluWar-ime Scouaster Frank Seger, Louis Hodge, Lyle Thompson, Francis War-Time Scoutmaster of Brighton Troop Steadman, Roy Conrad. of Brighton Troop No. 1, B. S. A. Second Row. Donald Hill, Richard Pitkin, Wendell Squires, Floyd Conrad, Leonard Herbst, Irvin Rowe. Third Row. Chandler Hicks, Alfred Stewart, William Seger, Edwin Weber, Harry Seger, Channing Blatchford, Herald Jacobs. Fourth Row. Tunis Strick, Harold Seger, Bernard Case, Gerald Morgan, Ronald Bird. Top Row. John Bidwell, B. E. Allen, Scoutmaster, 1918, Meredith Pitkin, Assistant Scoutmaster. HISTORY AND WAR RECORD of Brighton Troop No. 1, Boy Scouts of America By Herald Jacobs, Scout, 1st Class. The Brighton troop of Boy Scouts was organized in September, nineteen hundred and fourteen under the leadership of Mr. Frank M. Lansing, who received his commission as scoutmaster in the same month. The following boys were enrolled as Tenderfoots: Ellsworth Blake, Meredith Pitkin, Basil Charles, David McGrath, Sterling Gambel, Clyde Thompson, Lloyd Merrihew, Clare Crippen, Austin Otis and Charles D. Jacobs. The complete Boy Scout program of loyalty, patriotism and chivalry was immediately introduced and enthusiastically pursued. The troop rapidly increased in numbers and in the following two years underwent a development that, with the United States' entrance into the Great World War, enabled it to meet its new duties thus created with due sense of patriotic responsibility, and so efficient were its operations during those months of national strain that, considering its opportunities, its figuring in the winning of the Great War is of no little significance and should not be forgotten. At the call of the government the troop launched campaigns for the sale of Liberty Bonds with each of the five issues, aiding Livingston county each time to surpass its quota. Scouts Herald Jacobs, Charles D. Jacobs and Scoutmaster Frank M. Lansing were awarded medals of honor by the National Scout Headquarters for the selling of ten or more bonds each. In the War Savings Stamp drive the troop established a remarkable record and Scout Bernd Baetcke was cited by Headquarters for special service. The scouts also assisted the Department on Public Information by distributing leaflets, posters, etc., and their persistent cultivation of "war gardens" and the practice of the habit of economy and thrift merit admiration and praise. Carter Glass, secretary of the Treasury, in presenting Victory Loan medals to Boy Scouts of Washington, D. C., asserted that "If the Boy Scouts of America had done nothing more than they did in the five Liberty Loan campaigns, they would have earned distinction enough to entitle them to the respect and affection of all the American people." In recognition of the war-time service of the national Boy Scout movement, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, said: "The Boy Scouts of America have rendered notable service to the Nation during the world war. They have done effective work in the Liberty Loan and War Savings Campaigns, in cooperating with the Red Cross and other war work agencies, in discovering and reporting upon the black walnut supply, in acting as dispatch bearers for the Committee on Public Information, and in other important fields. The Boy Scouts have not only demonstrated their worth to the Nation, but have also materially contributed to a deeper appreciation by the American people of the higher conception of patriotism and good citizenship." 114 Standing, left to right:-Charles Moyer, Charles Grieve, Perry Cook, Russell Wells, Gayle Gibson, Clarence Sharp, Carl Polite, Willard Gregory, Eugene Defendorf, Frank C. Watters, Minister and Scoutmaster. Seated, left to right:-Elgin Norwood, Frank Dingman, Wayne Gibson, Erwin Luce, Alden Tomion, Sidney Ferrin, Loraine Liverance, Wayland Richter, Frank C. Watters, Jr., Roscoe Hoyt, George Munsell, Glenn Gibson. BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Fowlerville Troop No. 1 By Rev. F. C. Watters, Scoutmaster. The Boy Scouts of America, Fowlerville Troop No. 1, was organized in the fall of 1913 by Rev. R. T. Kilpatrick, minister of the Methodist Church. Dutton Bowers was the first patrol leader that the organization ever had, and later became an Assistant Scoutmaster. He volunteered for service in the World War and spent fourteen months in service in France and six months in Germany. Frank C. Watters was appointed to the Fowlerville Methodist Church in the fall of 1918, and became Scoutmaster of Troop No. 1. Abbott Bowers became Assistant Scoutmaster and did splendid work with the scouts during the time America was engaged in the war. Among the great activities of the scouts during the period of the war was distributing in stores and conspicuous places posters with announcements of the Liberty Loans. Besides this the Scouts solicited and sold Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps. Scout Hubert Cobley distinguished himself by the sale of $500 worth of W. S. S. One Boy Scout, Loraine Liverance, purchased over $100 worth of W. S. S. with money earned by selling papers. Other scouts bought Stamps in lesser amounts. The Boy Scouts are loyal and patriotic and would be among the first to respond to the call of their country for service. 115 MEDALS AND AWARDS THE MEDAL OF HONOR The Supreme Award for Valor. The Medal of Honor is the highest award for bravery to be won by an American. It is presented to a soldier (the Navy was included February, 1919) "who shall in action involving actual conflict with an enemy distinguish himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty." The Medal of Honor was won by only seventy-eight men in the war with Germany; only fifty-four of these survive. Two deeds which won this highest honor are the following, in the words of the official War Department citation: "CHARLES W. WHITTLESEY, Major, 308th Infantry. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy northeast of Binarville, in the forest D'Argonne, France, October 2-7, 1918. Although cut off for five days from the remainder of his division, MAJ. WHITTLESEY maintained his position, which he had reached under orders received for an advance, and held his command, consisting originally of 463 officers and men of the 308th Infantry and of Company K of the 307th Infantry, together in the face of superior numbers of the enemy, during five days. MAJ. WHITTLESEY and his command were thus cut off, and no rations or other supplies reached him, in spite of determined efforts which were made by his division. On the fourth day MAJ. WHITTLESEY received from the enemy a written proposition to surrender, which he treated with contempt, although he was at that time out of rations and had suffered a loss of 50 per cent in killed and wounded of his command and was surrounded by the enemy." "ALVIN C. YORK, Corporal, Company G, 328th Infantry. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy near Chatel-Chehery, France, October 8, 1918. After his platoon had suffered heavy casualties and three other non-commissioned officers had become casualties, CORPORAL YORK assumed command. Fearlessly leading seven men, he charged, with great daring, a machine-gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns." This is the exploit which Marshall Foch has termed the greatest single deed of heroism in the war. THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL The Distinguished Service Medal is awarded "to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the Army of the United States, shall distinguish himself or herself by specially meritorious service to the government in a duty of great responsibility." This is not a medal for heroism, but is rather awarded for efficiency in a responsible position. This medal was presented to leaders of the Allied Armies, the first presentation being to Marshall Foch, the Commander-in-Chief. It was given to 595 Americans, 144 French, 79 British, 22 Italians and 19 Belgians. Of the Americans, 545 were field or general officers of the Army (above the rank of captain) and 10 were captains or subordinate ranks. By recent War Department order, this medal is senior to the Distinguished Service Cross and next to the Medal of Honor. The Navy has a similar D. S. M., over the awards of which Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Admiral Sims had some controversy. General Pershing's citation for the D. S. M.: "By direction of the President, the Distinguished Service Medal was awarded on October 21, 1918, to GENERAL JOHN JOSEPH PERSHING, commanding general, American Expeditionary Forces, as a token of the gratitude of the American people to the commander of our armies in the field for his distinguished services, and in appreciation of the success which our armies have achieved under his leadership." THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS The Distinguished Service Cross is an Army decoration for bravery in action and is awarded for deeds of "extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy" not warranting the award of the Medal of Honor. Only one Cross is awarded to a man; succeeding awards of this honor are shown by a small oak leaf cluster fastened to the ribbon of the Cross. The same cluster of oak leaves in bronze is applicable to the Medal of Honor and the D. S. M., though no man has won these honors more than once. The first citation of Lieut. Hunter of the Air Service, who wears four bronze oak leaf clusters on his D. S. C. ribbon, is given herewith: "FRANK O'D. HUNTER, first lieutenant, Air Service, pilot, 103rd Aero Squadron. For extraordinary heroism in action in the region of Ypres, Belgium, June 22, 1918, LIEUT. HUNTER, while on patrol, alone attacked two enemy biplanes, destroying one and forcing the other to retire. In the course of the combat he was wounded in the forehead. Despite his injuries he succeeded in returning his damaged plane to his own aerodrome." A second citation of Julius Anderson, Private, Co. G, 109th Infantry: "For the following act of extraordinary heroism in action near Apremont, France, October 7, 1918, PVT. ANDERSON is awarded a bronze oak leaf cluster to be worn with the Distinguished Service Cross: Having become separated from his company and wounded by a bullet which pierced his helmet, he advanced alone on a machine gun nest across an open field in broad daylight, killed the gunner and captured two of the crew, whom he pressed into the service of carrying wounded." A CITATION The Citation is a junior form of military award for heroism. A Citation may be granted by any unit commanded by a general officer, that is, by a brigade, division, corps, or army. The award comes in the form of an illuminated certificate, giving the name, rank and organization of the recipient, and the date and place of the deed cited and bearing the signature of the commanding officer. No medal accompanies the Citation. A small silver star is worn on the ribbon of the Victory Medal or Service Ribbon as evidence that the wearer possesses a Citation. Several Citations have been won by Livingston County boys. The following is the citation awarded Lester Beattie of Howell: CITATION SECOND DIVISION Wagoner Lester Beattie, Co. B, 4th M. G. Bn., for Distinguished and Exceptional Gallantry at Belleau Woods on June 21, 1918, in the operations of the American Expeditionary Forces: In testimony thereof and as an expression of appreciation of his valor, I award him this Citation. Awarded 25 June, 1919. JOHN A. LaJEUNE, Maj. Gen., U. S. M. C., Comdg. THE VICTORY MEDAL The Victory Medal in bronze is awarded to every man who was on active duty in the Army and Navy of the United States between 6 April, 1917, and 11 November, 1918, and who was honorably discharged. This includes 4,000,000 men of the Army, 500,000 men of the Navy, 50,000 Marines and 20,000 nurses. According to "Tie Home Sector" the following classes are excluded from the award: Men whose only service was a period in an officers' training camp and who failed to win a commission; students of the S. A. T. C.; drafted men rejected at a camp before taking the oath for active service; conscientious objectors; welfare workers. This campaign medal is the work of the sculptor, James E. Fraser. It bears on the obverse the winged figure of Victory, and on the reverse the names of the Allied Nations with the words, "The Great War for Civilization." (In these respects the French medal is similar with the words, "La Grande Guerre pour la Civilisation"; but it will (continued on page 122) 116 1. H. A. Ludwig. 2. Frances I. Huntington. 3. Kenneth M. Payne. 4. Seth B. Jacobs. 5. Nellie Jacobs. 6. Harvey S. Jacobs. THE HONOR ROLL OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY. THE STAFF. ADVISORY BOARD. K. M. PAYNE, Editor and Manager. W. C. MILLER, Chairman Draft Board. S. B. JACOBS, Associate Editor. F. H. LARE, Secretary Draft Board. H. H. WINES, Treasurer. F. J. SHIELDS, Chairman War Board. H. A. LUDWIG, Photographer. MRS. W. P. VAN WINKLE, Chairman Co. Red Cross. THE EDITOR'S PAGE The task of compiling and publishing an Honor Roll of Livingston County was undertaken by Mr. Seth B. Jacobs, of the Brighton Argus, on 7 April, 1919. The publication was to include a complete pictorial record of the War Activities of the county. It had been hoped that the general public would co-operate sufficiently in sending in the stories and photographs of those who had done distinctive work during the war. It was found necessary, however, to personally canvass to secure the data for the War History. This work was splendidly carried on during that summer by Miss Nellie Jacobs and Harvey S. Jacobs, the latter covering the far corners of the county, sleeping out over night in his Ford. The task was too tremendous to complete so quickly, and with the departure of these two young people to college, the work slackened. Mr. Jacobs then asked for the assistance of Mr. Kenneth M. Payne, of Kalamazoo, who had made a specialty of this type of publication. Mr. Payne undertook the work and has carried it to completion with the support of Mr. Jacobs. We believe that this work of producing a War History of this county is a most valuable patriotic service to the community. To have searched out nearly seven hundred modest ex-soldiers and sailors and secured their stories is of tremendous value to posterity. Patriotism is developed by spreading broadcast the story of brave deeds done for our nation. This would have been a great thing had there been only one of these Histories in the archives of the county. It is a far greater thing that the story of our heroes can go into hundreds of homes where it will be treasured for generations. The men themselves have merited the opportunity to own this splendid story of their own and their comrades' achievements. And with the story of our boys, there is preserved the war-time likeness of the lads, most of them actually in uniform. Thus in convenient form, the men may have the photographs of scores, even hundreds of their old friends, as they looked "back in the days of '17, '18 and '19." This, to parents and service men alike, will grow to be an inestimable gift as the years go on. In the War History is recorded the story of the splendid patriotic work of Our Civilian Army, probably the only story of these organizations ever to be published. The men who wore the 0. D. or blue or forest green realize the value to them of the support of the home folks. Yet the great extent of these many activities is not appreciated until one reads the reports as presented in the Honor Roll. Many will not have realized before the hundreds, even thousands, of hours spent by the ladies on the work of the Red Cross. The needs of Liberty Loans and Welfare Work drives were met with splendid response. And there, of course, remain the stories of dozens of people who have done fine bits of War Work which will never be published in this or any other History. To them we now extend that appreciation of the community which many whose names appear herein will now receive because their deeds are known. Is not the Memorial Section of the Honor Roll a contribution to the memory of our heroic dead? Twenty-six of our boys made the supreme sacrifice-"that last full measure of devotion" to the Land of the Free. We shall preserve their names in living bronze. But better that we preserve their deeds living in our hearts. "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." Without our county War History many would never have known of the young lad who, enlisting as one of the very first of our men, was discharged from the army infected with the white scourge, yet he could not be kept from his country's service; he died wearing the navy blue. Or of another who had served his trick with the Marines before the war, but was called back from the reserve a few months alter his little daughter was born-to die in battle in the Argonne Forest. Learn these noble deeds BY HEART. Every effort has been made to make the data of the record one hundred per cent complete and accurate. The assistance of Frances I. Huntington has been invaluable. Her past experience in geneological work, and her present sense of absolute "historical accuracy" has left its permanent impress upon the record. We are grateful for the kindly help of Mrs. W. C. Huntington and her assistants, the township supervisors, engaged in a similar work for the state. An experience of over two years in the army during the war has helped us to locate a great many obvious defects in the data as it was reported to us, yet we must acknowledge that many errors remain. The data, however, stands as it has come to us. The reproduction of the photographs is as fine as can Ie done. Many prints sent us were very inferior-small snapshots, hazy, too light or too dark. Their reproduction in copper was necessarily imperfect. The finest results have come from the several hundred prints turned over to us by the Honor Roll photographer, Mr. H. A. Ludwig of Howell. Mr. Ludwig's generous offer to take any photograph free for the use of the Honor Roll has lead a great many to have recent pictures taken who would not have done so otherwise. In the arrangement of the photos on the page an attempt to get a balance and symmetry of the subjects' poses has been the sole guide. Some material will reach us too late for publication. This would have been true had we extended our closing date another year. As many as four letters or postals have been s2nt in a single instance to complete some record, and yet a few individuals have failed to respond. More than twelve months have been necessary to reach this degree of completeness; it is only with the passing years that all the history will have been gathered. 117 THE YANKS The War Record of the Forty-two Divisions of the American Expeditionary Forces. Divi*ion, m Jul lug I Sep 1 at INOV I De VAW I IJim |Jul ALug|Sep fOot P I 2 4 4 3 8 7 2 2 3 3 8 7 Ist 2nd >6th i2nd - 3rd '7th 5th '7th 55th 12nd B 4th;8th 'th Fat) II I 83rd 92nd 89th 90th 37th 29th 91st 76th 79th 6th 36th 85th 7th 81st 88th 40th 39th 87th 86th 84th 34th 38th 31st 8th!F I I VI/ZZz I1X I - I I I. r? VI11 011 -LIIZZZ/ I -- I - - - I I i~ I I I,.,. L., L K i - i. -. -.. —.. —..- I- I. — -il --- i — i-:_ i p i i I I i Ltg jsepj ictlovI eo 1n I Feb1MaarlAprIpMa Iun~ Iau hiep luOtifM From The War with Germany: A |1Organization to Statistical Suttnmary.'" by Col. L.onBrival In i.w ard P. Ayres, General Staff, U. S. A. Arrival in Franoe to entering line Entering line to active battle servioO U_ Service as aotlTe oombat ditvlison THE YANKS. (From information and statistics in "The Home Sector" in all its issues to date, and "The National Geographic Magazine" of December, 1919.) The WAR RECORD of our A. E. F. Divisions is clearly shown in the accompanying chart from "The War with Germany; A Statistical Summary," by Col. Leonard P. Ayers, General Staff, U. S. A. The forty-two divisions which reached France before the armistice are arranged in order of their arrival in France. At a glance, one can read and compare their dates of organization, length of training in America, the date of their sailing, length of training in France, date they entered the line and the length of time they spent in the lines, both in quiet sectors and in active sectors, until the signing of the armistice, 11 November, 1918. This gives us these averages for America's 1,400,000 men who actually went into the battle line: Training in America, six months; training in France, two months; service in quiet sector before entering battle, one month. The peace time army of the United States was 200,000 men and 9,000 officers. This grew during 118 the war to 4,000,000 men and 200,000 officers. At the signing of the armistice there were 42 divisions in France, 12 in the United States ready for overseas duty, and four others being organized. Had the war continued to the middle of 1919 we could have had 80 divisions in France, and L00 by the end of 1919. The terms-Regular Army, National Guard and National Army Divisions-cannot be construed too literally for there was a stratum of drafted, or National Army, men in every division. Replacements sent in to fill out a division depleted in battle were often of all three classes. Most National Guard Divisions were one-third drafted men and two-thirds state troops. Drafted men made up almost one-half the strength of the 30th, 31st, 33rd, 39th, 40th and 41st National Guard Divisions. The divisions which were most completely recruited to full strength were the 26th (New England N. G.); 27th (New York N. G.); 28th (Pennsylvania N. G.); 29th (the Guard of Va., Md., N. J. and the District of Columbia); 42nd (N. G. units from 26 states, hence its name, "Rainbow Division"). The First and Second Divisions were organized in France and received all their training overseas. These, with the 26th, 42nd and 41st, were the only divisions to reach France during 1917. (See accompanying chart.) Thus, excepting these, the average period of training for the individual soldier is eleven months. The "Fighting First" which was hurried overseas in our third month of the war, and our grand old Second Division, with its two regiments of marines, were composed largely at that time of our best trained old-time Regular outfits. There was, however, a large sprinkling of our Young America which had hastened to the colors at the first call. Many of these youngsters grew several years older overnight, so they might wear the uniform. It is said that not one man in four of the old-timers who were in the Regular establishment before the war ever saw duty in France. To these men and to those others who hurriedly offered themselves in their country's need, only to be sent to guard duty along the Mexican Border, or to an army post in the west, it will never cease to be a rancoring thought that the battles were fought without them. These divisions, with the 26th and 42nd, were at the front almost before any other divisions had crossed the sea. There were several divisions which, on arrival in France, became Replacement or Depot Divisions. (41st, 76th, 83rd, 84th, 85th and others.) These divisions did not enter battle as a unit, but large parts of their men entered battle as replacements in other divisions. In many cases whole organizations from these divisions were detached to serve in the lines as Corps and Army troops, under the direct command of the Corps or Army Commander. (See story of the 85th Division.) OUR MOST FAMOUS A. E. F. DIVISIONS. FIRST DIVISION-Organized summer of 1917 in France. The first division to go overseas, June, 1917, and the last complete division to leave France, September, 1919. "First at the front, first to attack, first to conduct a raid, first to be raided, first to capture prisoners, first to suffer casualties, first to inflict casualties, first to be cited singly in General Orders." Longest service under fire220 days. Second in number of prisoners captured-6,462; exceeded only by the 2 Division. Third in total advance against resistance-51 kilometers; exceeded by the 77 and 2 Divisions. Of its men 1,200 have been decorated. Army of Occupation, holding the right bank of the Rhine. Operations: Sommerville Sector, 21 Oct.-26 Nov., 1917. Anseuville Sector, 15 Jan.-3 April, 1918. Cantigny Sector, 25 April-7 July; Battle of Cantigny 28-30 May. Montdidier-Noyon Defensive, 9-13 June. Aisne-Marne Offensive, 12-24 July. Saizerais Sector, 7-24 Aug. St. Mihiel Offensive, 12-13 Sept. Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 1-12 Oct. and 5-11 Nov. Battle Service: 93 days active sectors; 127 days quiet sectors. Casualties: Killed, 4,899, wounded 20,331. Decorations: Medal of Honor, 2; D. S. C., 426; D. S. M., 6: Legion d'Honneur, 30; Medaille Militaire, 36; Croix de Guerre, 471; Fourragere (red and green), 18 Inf. Replacements: 27,415. Insignia: Crimson figure 1 on khaki background. Station in U. S.: Camp Taylor, Ky. SECOND DIVISION-Organized Oct., 1917, Bourmont. France. Captured twice as many prisoners, 12.026, as its nearest competitor — st Div. Received most decorations-2,740 Croix de Guerre alone. Awarded most D. S. C.'s-675. Second in total advance against resistance, 60 kilometers. exceeded only by the 77 Div. Fourth in number of Medals of Honor, 7. Army of Occupation, holding the right bank of the Rhine. Operations: Verdun Sector, 15 Mar-13 May, 1918. Aisne-Marne Defensive, 31 May-5 June; northwest of Chateau Thierry. Chateau Thierry Sector, 6 June-9 July. Aisne-Marne Offensive, 18-19 July; Soissons. Marbache Sector, 12-16 Aug. St. Mihiel Offensive, 12-16 Sept. Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 1-10 Oct. and 1-11 Nov. Battle Service: 66 days active sectors; 71 days quiet sectors. Casualties: Killed, 5,077; wounded, 19,984. Decorations: Medal of Honor, 7; D. S. C., 675; D. S. M., 10; Legion d'Honneur, 17; Medaille Militaire, 42; Croix de Guerre, 2,740. Replacements: Approximately 35,000. Insignia: Indian head upon a star. Station in U. S.: Camp Travis, Tex. THIRD DIVISION-Organized Nov., 1917, Camp Greene, N. C. Served in the Chateau Thierry Sector 31 May-29 July, 1918, stopping the German attack of 15-18 July, the last enemy offensive; hence its nickname, "The Rock of the Marne." "The only division to have five battle clasps on its Victory Medal (or five stars on the service ribbon)." Army of Occupation. Operations: Perrone Sector, 10 Feb.-20 Mar., 1918 (6 Engrs. only). Somme Defensive, 21 Mar.6 Apr. (6 Engrs. only). Amiens Sector, 7 Apr.7 June (6 Engrs. only). Aisne Defensive, 1-5 June (the Division less the 6 Engrs.). Chateau Thierry Sector, 6 June-14 July, 1918. ChampagneMarne Defensive, 15-18 July, 1918. Aisne-Marne Offensive, 18-30 July, 1918. Vesle Sector, 4-9 Aug. (6 Inf. Brig. and 6 Engrs. only). St. Mihiel Offensive, 12-16 Sept., in reserve. Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 30 Sept.-27 Oct.; artillery only, until 11 Nov. Battle Service: 86 days active sectors; none quiet sectors. Prisoners Captured: 2,240. Casualties: Killed, 3,638; wounded, 11,747. Total Advance Against Resistance: 41 kilometers. Decorations: Medal of Honor. 2; D. S. C., 335; D. S. M., 9: Croix de Guerre, 192; British D. S. O., 2; British D. C. M., 1; British M. C., 11. Replacements: Approximately 2,600. Insignia: Blue square with three diagonal white stripes. Station in U. S.: Camp Pike, Ark. FOURTH DIVISION-Organized Dec.. 1917. Camp Greene, N. C. Seventh in number of prisoners captured. Army of Occupation. Operations: Champagne-Marne Defensive, 14-18 July, 1918. Aisne-Marne Offensive, 18-23 July. Vesle Campaign, 3-12 Aug. Toulon Sector, 6-12 Sept. St. Mihiel Offensive, 12-16 Sept. Verdun Sector, 23-26 Sept. Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 26 Sept.-19 Oct. Battle Service: 38 days active sectors; 7 days quiet sectors. Prisoners Captured: 2,756 (plus prisoners taken in July and August while brigaded with French). Casualties: Killed, 2,611; wounded, 9,893. Total advance against resistance: 2412 kilometers. Decorations: D. S. C., 154; Legion d'Honneur, 8; Croix de Guerre, 115. Replacements: 19,559. Insignia: Four ivy leaves (from IV) at right angles about a small circle; green. Station in U. S.: Camp Dodge, Ia. 119 OUR MOST FAMOUS A. E. F. DIVISIONS FIFTH IIVISION-Organized Nov., 1917, Camp Logan, Tex. Army of Occupation, stationed in Luxemburg in reserve. Operations: Colmar Sector, 15 June-16 July, 1918. St. Die Sector, 16 July-23 Aug. St. Mihiel Offensive, 11-17 Sept. Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 11-22 Oct. and 27 Oct.-11 Nov. Battle Service: 32 days active sectors; 71 days quiet sectors. Prisoners captured: 2,356. Casualties: Killed, 1,976; wounded, 6,864. Advanced Against Resistance: 29 kilometers. Decorations: Medal of Honor, 2; D. S. C., 190; D. S. M., 9; Legion d'Honneur, 2; Croix de Guerre, 24. Replacements: 12,611. Insignia: Red diamond. Station in U. S.: Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. FOURTEENTH DIVISION-Not an A. E. F. Division. Organized July, 1918, Camp Custer, Mich. Took the name, "Wolverine Division." Did not go overseas because of the ravages of the influenza epidemic; 10,000 cases developed in the division, resulting in 660 deaths. Units: 27 Inf Brig: 10 Inf; 40 Inf. 28 Inf Brig: 77 Inf; 78 Inf. 14 FA Brig: 40 FA, 41 FA, 42 FA, 14 TM Btry. 214 Engrs, 214 FS Bn; 14 Trains. Division demobilized 24 Feb., 1919, Camp Custer. OTHER DIVISIONS organized in July, 1918 -10 Division at Camp Funston, Kans., 11 Division at Camp Meade, Md.; 12 Division at Camp Devens, Mass.; 13 Division at Camp Lewis, Wash.; 18 Division at Camp Travis, Tex. The NATIONAL GUARD DIVISIONS-26th to 42nd-were called into Federal Service July, 1917, and drafted into service 5 August, 1917, under the National Defense Act of 1916. This made them eligible for foreign service. TWENTY-SIXTH DIVISION-Trained in home states. The National Guard of the New England States. Served the most time under enemy fire, 193 days, excepting 1 Div. First to enter the lines, excepting 1st Div. Sixth in number of prisoners captured. Sixth in number of casualties. Operations: Chemin des Dames, 6 Feb.-18 Mar., 1918. La Reine and Bourq Sector, 31 Mar.-29 June. Northwest of Chateau Thierry, 10-25 July, including Aisne-Marne Offensive. Rupt and Troyon Sector, 8 Sept.-8 Oct., including St. Mihiel Offensive. North of Verdun in reserve 18 Oct.-11 Nov. Battle Service: 45 days active sectors; 148 days quiet sectors. Prisoners captured: 3,148. Casualties: Killed, 2,135; wounded, 11,325. Advanced Against Resistance: 37 kilometers. Decorations: No information. Insignia: Y D in monogram (Yankee Division), blue on O. D. TWENTY-SEVENTH DIVISION -Trained at Camp Wadsworth, S. C. The National Guard of New York State. Entire battle service with the British. Operations: East Poperinghe (Belgium) line 9 July-3 Sept., 1918. Dickebusch Sector (Belgium), 24 Aug.-3 Sept. Breaking of the Hindenburg Line, 24 Sept.-l Oct. St. Souplet Sector, 12-21 Oct. Battle Service: 57 days active sectors; there were no quiet sectors on the British front. Prisoners Captured: 2,357. Casualties: Killed, 1,785; wounded, 7,201. Advanced Against Resistance: 11 kilometers. Decorations: Medal of Honor, 5; D. S. C., 151; D. S. M., 1; British D. S. O., 3; British D.C. C., 12; British Military Cross, 12; British Military Medal, 49; Croix de Guerre, 3. Replacements: 5,255. Insignia: N Y in monogram with seven stars representing the constellation of Orion, a compliment to the divisional commander, Maj. Gen. O'Ryan. TWENTY-EIGHTH DIVISION-Trained at Camp Hancock, Ga. The National Guard of Pennsylvania. Fourth in number of casualties, 13,980, highest of the NG Divisions and exceeded only by the 1, 2, and 3 RA Divisions. Operations: Southeast of Chateau Thierry, 30 June-31 July, 1918, including Champagne-Marne Defensive and the Aisne-Marne Offensive. Vesle Sector, 7 Aug.-8 Sept.; Meuse-Argonne, 20 Sept.-9 Oct. Thiaucourt Sector, 16 Oct.-11 Nov. Battle Service: 49 days active sectors; 31 days quiet sectors. Prisoners Captured: 921. Casualties: Killed, 2,551; wounded, 11,429. Advanced Against Resistance: 10 kilometers. Decorations: Medal of Honor, 1. No further information available. Replacements: Approximately 21,717. Insignia: Red keystone. TWENTY-NINTH DIVISION-Organized at Camp McClellan, Ala. The National Guard of New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Operations: Vosges, 25 July-22 Sept. MeuseArgonne, 7-30 Oct., north of Verdun. Battle Service: 23 days active sectors; 59 days quiet sectors. Prisoners Captured: 2,187. Casualties: Killed, 951; wounded, 4,268. Advanced Against Resistance: 7 kilometers. Decorations: Medal of Honor, 3. No further information available. Replacements: Approximately, 4,977. Insignia: Korean good luck emblem in blue and gray. THIRTIETH DIVISION-Organized at Camp Sevier, S. C. The National Guard of Tennessee, North and South Carolina. Awarded the largest number of Medals of Honor, 12, one regiment, 118 Inf, receiving six, more than any other organization in the AEF. Fifth in number of prisoners captured, 3,848. Entire battle service with the British. Operations: Canal Sector, south of Ypres. Brigaded with the British 16 July-17 Aug. Under American command 17 Aug.-4 Sept. Guoy-Norroy Sector, breaking the Hindenburg Line, 23 Sept.2-Oct. Beaurevoir Sector, 5-12 Oct. Le Chateau Sector, 16-20 Oct. Battle Service: 56 days active sectors; there were no quiet sectors on the British front. Prisoners Captured: 3,848. Casualties: Killed, 1,629; wounded, 7,325. Advanced Against Resistance: 291/2 kilometers. Insignia: O surrounding H (Old Hickory) with XXX (30) in the center, in blue on red background. The Red Arrow Division. THIRTY-SECOND DIVISION-Organized at Camp MacArthur, Waco, Tex. The National Guard of Michigan and Wisconsin. Selected by GHQ, AEF, to hold the right bank of the Rhine with the 1st and 2nd Divisions in the Army of Occupation. First American troops to fight on German soil, Alsace Sector, May, 1918. Where it went: Trained at Waco, Tex., Aug., 1917-Feb., 1918. 16 Feb., 1918, arrived overseas at English and French ports. 24 Feb.-17 May, Tenth Training Area. 17 May-22 July, Alsace Sector. 22 July-23 Aug., Aisne-Marne Offensive; Chateau Thierry and Fismes. 23 Aug.-9 Sept., Oise-Aisne Offensive; Soissons. 10-22 Sept., in Rest Area at Joinville. 22 Sept.-11 Nov., Meuse-Argonne Offensive; in operations against the Kriemhilde line until 20 Oct. and east of the Meuse on the Verdun front, 20 Oct.-11 Nov. 17-20 Nov., at Longwy. 20 Nov.-1 Dec. in Luxemburg. 1 Dec.-April, 1919, in Germany; Coblenz bridgehead and the right bank of the Rhine. May, 1919, arrived in America. 10-25 May, demobilized at Camp Custer, Michigan. Battle Service: 35 days active sectors; 60 days quiet sectors. Prisoners Captured: 2,153. Casualties: Killed, 2,915; wounded, 10,477. Advanced Against Resistance: 36 kilometers. Insignia: Red arrow, because they "shot through every line the Boche put before them." 120 OUR MOST FAMOUS A. E. F. DIVISIONS The 119th Field Artillery. The STORY OF THE 119th FIELD ARTILLERY as told by LESLIE E. PEEK, 1st Lieut., 119 FA, 32 Div, who with many other Livingston County boys, served with this regiment "from the date of organization to the date of demobilization." First Michigan Field Artillery, Michigan National Guard. Service on THE MEXICAN BORDER: Called to Federal Service July, 1916, and ordered to Camp Pershing, El Paso, Tex. Assigned to 11th Provisional Division. Demobilized at Fort Wayne, Detroit, February, 1917. WAR WITH GERMANY: Mobilized July, 1917, at Camp Hoague, Lansing, with its ranks greatly increased with new recruits. Ordered to Camp MacArthur, Waco, Tex., Aug., 1917, where it became the 119th Field Artillery of the 32nd Division. Ordered to Camp Merritt, N. J., February, 1918. OVERSEAS SERVICE: Sailed from Hoboken, 25 February, 1918; Landed at Camp Dwinel Downe, Winchester, England; then was sent to British Debarkation Camp at La Havre, France, and on to Camp de Coetquidan, Guer, France, where it trained for ten weeks. Its battle service was: Toul Sector, 8-22 June, supporting 26 Division. Alsace Sector 26 June-22 July, supporting 32 Division and 151 French Division. Aisne-Marne Offensive ("Chateau Thierry Drive"), 27 July-24 Aug.; in the advance from the Ourcq to the Vesle, supporting the 32, 28 and 77 Divisions. Oise-Aisne Offensive (operations on Juvigny, north of Soissons), 27 Aug.-11 Sept., supporting the 32 Division and the 1 Morrocan Division. Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 26 Sept.-2 Nov., supporting 32, 79, 3, 91, and 89 Divisions. The regiment fired approximately 100,000 rounds PER BATTERY of French 75 mm shells into the German lines. The 119th did not go to the Rhine with the Infantry of the 32 Division. It was stationed at Gondrecourt and then ordered to Camp Pontanezen, at Brest, France, where it embarked for home in April, 1919. It arrived at Camp Mills, Long Island, New York, 3 May, 1919, and was demobilized 20 May, 1919, at Camp Custer, Michigan. THIRTY-THIRD DIVISION-Trained at Camp Logan, Tex. The National Guard of Illinois. Third in number of Medals of Honor. 8, one regiment, 132 Inf., receiving five, an honor exceeded only by the 118 Inf. Fourth in number of prisoners captured. Operations: Amiens Sector, 19 July-20 Aug., 1918, with the Australians, by detachments. MeuseArgonne, 9 Sept.-11 Nov., by detachments, north of Verdun and west of the Meuse. Battle Service: 27 days active sectors; 32 days quiet sectors. Prisoners Captured: 3,987. Casualties: Killed, 989; wounded, 6,266. Advanced Against Resistance: 36 kilometers. Insignia: Yellow cross on blue field. FORTY-SECOND DIVISION-Organized from National Guard units remaining after the formation of the other 16 National Guard Divisions; 26 states contributed, hence its name, "The Rainbow Division." Third in total advance against resistance, 55 kilometers; exceeded only by the 2 and 77 Divisions. Operations: Lorraine, 17 Feb.-21 June, 1918. East of Rheims, 5-17 July; last German Offensive. Trugny and Beuvardes, 25 July-3 Aug. St. Mihiel Offensive, 12-30 Sept. Meuse-Argonne, 13-31 Oct. and 5-10 Nov. Battle Service: 39 days active sectors; 125 days quiet sectors. Prisoners Captured: 1,317. Casualties: Killed, 2,644; wounded, 11,275. Insignia: The left half of a -ainbow. The NATIONAL ARMY DIVISIONS-76 to 92 -were organized in September, 1917, with the men of the first draft. SEVENTY-SEVENTH DIVISION - Trained at Camp Upton, Long Island. National Army men from southern New York and New York City. The first National Army division overseas. Advanced farthest against resistance: 711/2 kilometers. Fifth in number of Medals of Honor, 6, one regiment, 308 Inf., receiving five, an honor equalled by the 132 Inf. and exceeded only by the 118 Inf. Operations: Baccarat Sector, Lorraine, 20 June24 Aug. On the Vesle, 12 Aug.-16 Sept. MeuseArgonne, 26 Sept.-16 Oct., as the extreme left of the American Army; and again 31 Oct.-11 Nov. Battle Service: 66 days active sectors; 47 days quiet sectors; longer under fire than any other N. A. Division; service in active sectors equal to the 2 Division and exceeded only by the 1 and 3 Divisions. Prisoners Captured: 750. Casualties: Killed, 1,992; wounded, 8,505; more than any other N. A. Division. Insignia: Statue of Liberty on a blue background. EIGHTY-THIRD DIVISION-Trained at Camp Sherman, Ohio. National Army men from Ohio and West Virginia. Sailed overseas in June, 1918, and became a depot division at Le Mans, through which 193,221 replacements went forward to the front. Insignia: Monogram OHIO, yellow on a blue background. One of its regiments, the 332 Infantry, served with the Italian Army against the Austrians; Vittorio-Veneto Offensive, Italy, 24 Oct.-4 Nov., 1918. The Custer Division. EIGHTY-FIFTH DIVISION —Trained at Camp Custer, Michigan. National Army men from Michigan and Wisconsin. Commanded by Maj. Gens. Jos. T. Dickman, Jas. Parker, and Geo. Kennedy. Sailed overseas from Hoboken, July, 1918. In France it became a depot division, stationed at Cosnes and Toul; it sent 3,948 of its men to the front as replacements. Several units were detached from the division: The 164 Artillery Brigade-328, 329, 330 Field Artillery-became 6th Corps Artillery. It trained at Camp de Coetquidan in Brittany; went into the lines in the Puvenelle Sector, south of Metz and west of the Moselle, 31 Oct.-11 Nov., 1918. Stationed at Pont-a-Mousson after the armistice. The 2 Battalion, 310 Engineers, became Corps troops also. They went through the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives, and then into Germany with the Army of Occupation. The 339 Infantry and 1st Battalion, 310 Engineers, were detached from the division in England in July, 1918, and sent to Archangel, Russia, September. 1918, as part of the North Russia Expedition. They were ten months in Russia under British command. They sailed from Archangel in May, 1919, and landed at Hoboken the last of June. The regiment paraded in Detroit, 4 July, 1919, and was demobilized immediately afterward at Camp Custer, Mich. The division sailed from Brest, France, March, 1918, and landed at Hoboken. It was demobilized 10-25 April 1919, at Camp Custer, Mich. The Insignia of the Division: Red C D from "Custer Division." The Insignia of the North Russia Forces: White polar bear on blue background. EIGHTY-NINTH DIVISION-Trained at Camp Funston, Kans., by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. National Army men from Kansas, Missouri, and Colorado. Second in number of Medals of Honor, 9, exceeded only by the 30 Div. Third in number of prisoners captured, 5,061, exceeded only by the 1 and 2 Divs. Army of Occupation, in Luxemburg in reserve. Operations: Marbasche Sector, Aug., 1918. St. Mihiel Offensive. Bois de Bouchot Sector. MeuseArgonne Offensive. Battle Service: 28 days active sectors; 55 days quiet sectors. Casualties: Killed, 1,433; wounded, 5,858. Advanced Against Resistance: 48 kilometers; second of the N. A. Divisions and exceeded only by five A. E. F. Divisions. Insignia: Black W, an inverted M, for "Middle West Division." 121 S. 0. S. MAN-POWER Even when there was greatest need for men at the front, the work behind the lines in the A. E. F. took roughly one man out of every three. In the British Army the proportion ran higher than in the A. E. F. On the day the armistice was signed there were 386,000 troops under the Commanding General of the S. O. S., and 160,000 noncombatant troops were in the Zone of the Armies, mostly engaged in distribution of supplies to the troops at the front.-The Home Sector. OVERSEAS CASUALTIES OF THE Y. M. C. A. Killed in action and died of wounds.......... 14 Died of accident and disease................ 57 Wounded and gassed in battle zone........... 126 Injured in accidents........................ 14 Captured by Germans........................ 2 Total casualties overseas................ 214 Y. M. C. A. workers decorated for heroism and service under fire at the front: Awarded War Medals...................... 100 Cited in Official Reports.................... 90 Total.................................... 190 (Maj. Gen. Dickman, Third Division, cited 40 Y. M. C. A. workers for service at Chateau Thierry and the Marne, in G. 0. 33, 10 Aug., 1918. Maj. Gen. Allen, Ninetieth Division. commended 9 "Y" workers for work in the St. Miihiel Drive. Maj. Gen. Howze, Third Division, cited 24 "Y" workers for their work in the Argonne, G. 0. 59, 2 Dec., 1918.) Thirty-one Y. M. C. A. workers died in service in the United States. No data about the number of workers and the number of huts in operation for the Army and Navy in America was obtained. The Victory Medal. (continued from page 116) be awarded only to those who have served three months at the front.) The medal hangs from a double rainbow ribbon. This rainbow ribbon will be the common badge of service in the War with Germany among all the Allied Nations. On the ribbon are placed bronze bars or "clasps" bearing the names of the battles in wvhich the wearer participated. Clasps are awarded also for service in the lines in a defensive sector-no man may wear more than one of these-and for service outside the line of battle in France, Russia, Siberia and England. When the rainbow service ribbon is worn in place of the medal, the ribbon bears a small bronze star for each of the battle and defensive sector clasps. No star is worn for service behind the lines. The War Department has announced the following as the major engagements for which battle clasps are awarded: Cambrai, 12 May-4 Dec., 1917; Somme Defensive, 21 March-6 April, 1918; Lys Defensive, 9-27 April, 1918; Aisne Defensive, 27 May5 June; Montdidier-Noyon Defensive, 9-13 June; Champagne-Marne Defensive, 15-18 July; AisneMarne Offensive, 18 July-6 Aug.; Somme Offensive, 8 Aug.-11 Nov.; Oise-Aisne Offensive, 18 Aug.-11 Nov.; Ypres-Lys Offensive, 19 Aug.-11 Nov.; St. Mihiel Offensive, 12-16 Sept.; Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 26 Sept.-11 Nov.; Vottorio-Veneto Offensive, Italy, 24 Oct.-4 Nov. THE WELFARE WORK FOR THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (From information by George W. Perkins, New York banker and the State Association of Y. M. C. A., Detroit.) Number of workers in service at time of armistice, Nov. 11, 1918: Salvation Army............................. 126 Knights of Columbus...................... 434 Y. M. C. A................................ 7,816 Number in service March 1, 1919: Salvation Army............................ 184 Knights of Columbus...................... 7,116 Y. M. C. A................................. 8,350 Welfare Workers in the Army of Occupation (Third Army). From Dr. Maitland Alexander, First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg, Pa., Director of Y. M. C. A. Religious Work, Third Army, Coblenz, Germany, 23 January, 1919.) Salvation Army........................... 11 Jewish Welfare Workers..................... 4 Red Cross.......................... about 45 Women....... 35 Men........... 10 Knights of Columbus................. about 60 Y. M. C. A..............................over 400 (With 15 amusement units which gave shows, and 6 movie outfits in each division.) THE Y. M. C. A. IN FRANCE In April, 1919, The Young Men's Christian Association had in Europe 5,693 men and 2,657 women, making a total of 8,350 welfare workers. The selection of the workers who were sent to the American Expeditionary Force was made from 40,000 recommendations from local city committees which had considered at least 150,000 volunteers. Of this number 11,229 were finally accepted and sent to Europe where they served for varying periods. General Pershing requested (practically ordered) the Y. M. C. A. in France to undertake the management of the Army Canteens, on August 20, 1917. This would release to the fighting forces about 25,000 men. In America the Canteen is run by the men of each regiment or other unit. The Y. M. C. A. undertook the job. Canteen luxuries could not be obtained in France and ships for import were needed for Army Transports. The Y. M. C. A., with the aid of France, reopened French factories. The Y. M. C. A. supplied the raw materials, supervised the factories and took the entire product for the A. E. F. The 44 French factories produced at maximum output, PER MONTH: 10,160,000 packages biscuits, 7,400,000 tablets drinking-chocolate, 12,900,000 bars assorted candies, 2,000,000 tins jam. Of course the price of these dainties produced in war-stricken France was often higher than American candies offered by the Army Quartermaster. The "Y" ran a paper mill in Tolosa, Spain, to make a hundred million sheets of writing paper with necessary envelopes. Other French mills produced twice that amount, while a hundred million sheets were shipped from New York, all of which with sixteen million post cards were used free by the A. E. F. The "Y" operated many French hotels in various cities at reduced rates. Tn London, England, there were five such "Y" hotels. On March 1, 1919, the Y. M. C. A. had in operation in France 1,965 buildings: 587 the Y. M. C. A. had erected, 596 it had leased, 782 army buildings and centers in tents. "Because of an understanding between the Y. M. C. A. and the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. V7AS NOT AT LIBERTY TO WORK IN HOSPITAL AREAS, SERVING THE SICK AND WOUNDED, SAVE ON INVITATION OF THE RED CROSS."-John R. Mott. The work of the General Staff of a division or higher command was divided into departments, called G-l, G-3, etc. The Chief of Staff controlled the work of these departments. There were three G's in a division, four in a corps, five at G. H. Q. In a division G-1 was charged with personnel, transportation, supplies, and the general co-ordination of activities; G-2, with intelligence; G-3, with operations, that is, with plans of attack and defense, march orders, training. In corps G-4 took over the work of supplies and transportation from G-1; in G. H. Q., G-4 took over the work of training from the divisional G-3. The G's, with the Chief of Staff, constituted the General Staff of the division or higher command. 122 I I I I The following business and professional men should be credited in large degree for the success of the Livingston County Honor Roll. At a time when the rise in cost of materials and other elements of production had caused many counties to abandon their War History, these men stood loyally behind this creditable undertaking. These men believe that our county has a record worth preserving for future generations; that in whole-souled patriotic devotion to our country when in distress, no county has exceeded Livingston County. These men believe that our Soldiers and Sailors should be permitted to have such a permanent history of their own and their comrades' achievements. These men have been willing to support financially this Honor Roll of Livingston County. ARTHUR E. COLE DOCTOR MELLUS LAWYER BRIGHTON FOWLERVILLE E Cunning, Willis L. Lyons J. Cunningham,M. D. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW FOWLERVILLE Prosecuting Attorney Howell, Mich. Richard D. Roche W. P.VanWinkle & Son ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ATTORNEYS-AT-LA ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, First State Savings Bank Building HOWELL, MICHIGAN Howell, Michigan William P. Van Winkle Don W. Van Win kle W. Huntin n, M Louis E. Howlett W.C. Huntington M. D. LAWYER HOWELL, MICHIGAN E. A. and L. E. Stowe ATTORNEYS H. G, Huntington, M. D.. HOWELL, MICHIGAN Eugene A. Stowe, Judge of Probate lMillions of men cannot be sent across the sea, perhaps to SjCf keep a rendezvous with death, without changing the mental attitude of a whole nation. People found for themselves that music performed a spiritual service as measurable as the physical services performed by food and clothing. T"DONE ITS BIT SOLE AGENTS ASK THE VICTBOYS CHAPEL H O W E L L AS TH BOY 124 - | TO THE VETERANS OF THE WORLD WAR GREETING THE HOWELL ELECTRIC MOTORS COMPANY received its baptism of fire in common with the veterans in the industry. Its contribution to the service consisted of twenty-eight men who left their employment to enter the service in various capacities. Like many of the men who entered the service, its function was more or less secondary and remote. It served in factory and mills, to contribute to that action on the firing line which resulted in ultimate victory. It is therefore fitting that it should occupy a space in these pages carrying with it, as it does, the knowledge of service unostentatiously performed. It is in a degree symbolical of that great army of volunteers who gave their services, and without the blare of trumpets and the stimulation of action in the field, performed their all important part contributing to the glorious outcome of the recent conflict. Whether on or behind the firing line,-to those who served so well in time of stress,-we pay the sincerest tribute. 125 Edwin Farmer, Pres. Wm. E. Robb, Sec'y-Treas. Citizens' Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. ..~~ ~?. r Wr.I 5:.:,.. -... i:::' 8:?a4?sri;Y~... -:~..;~. OFFICERS: President EDWIN FARMER Stockbridge, Mich. Vice-Presidents F. E. FRENCH Ellweil, Mich. R. B. WALKER Lapeer, Mich. S. R. KETCHUM Kalamazoo, Mich. Sec'y & Treas. WM. E. ROBB Howell, Mich. 203 Grand River Ave. HOWELL, MICHIGAN LARGEST IN THE WORLD Fire Theft Property Damage Personal Injury Collision DIRECTORS: WILLIAM F. NANK Mt. Clemens, Mich. F. W. COMISKEY Ann Arbor, Mich. GEORGE J. BURKE Ann Arbor, Mich. H. W. ELLIS Fowlerville, Mich. K. P. GANNONX HJartland, Mich. L. S. HACKETT Pittsford, Mich. WM. BROGAN Lansing, Mich. R. J. ROBB Conway, Mich. C. E. SKINNERII Howell, \Mich. AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE AT COST. 126 To the Boys who Wore the Khaki and the Blue I Reverently Take Off My Hat to You D. D. MONROE SHOES - HOSIERY - WALL PAPER HOWELL MICHIGAN R. Bruce McPherson AN APPRECIATION FROM G. H. BEURMANN FURNITURE CROCKERY AND WALL PAPER An Acknowledgment of our Debt To the Men Who Wore Our Country's Uniform COWDREY'S DRUG STORE THE REXALL STORE PHONE 83 HOWELL HOWELL MICHIGAN 127 RUBERT, CRANDALL and COTTER HARDWARE COMPANY HOWELL MICHIGAN Four of Our Force Wore the Uniform and Served You in the World's Crisis WE STILL STAND READY TO SERVE A REAL THRILLER Immediately thereafter three chasers opened fire on him, and for a few moments three-inch shells fell thick and fast about him. He was too far The second group of chasers that went across away from the chasers to be heard and, as he were attacked outside of Brest harbor by two Ger- wore a life-vest, he could do nothing but float on man submarines. During the excitement a negro the top of the water, waiting for his doom. mess-cook on one of the boats, unnoticed by any tp e werwaing or doo of his crew, fell overboard. As the chasers, preparing to drop depth bombs, approached him from three sides, the negro's conAfter a few moments he was sighted in the wa- tortions were noticed and he was finally picked up, ter by one of the chasers. From a distance, the unhurt, but naturally almost scared out of his black face, topped by the white skull-cap that is wits worn by his profession, looked very much like a For some time all he could say was: "I camouflaged periscope; and the ebony-hued son of For some time all he could say was: "I ain't the Navy was reported amid much excitement to no submarine, white folks; hones' to Gawd! Mah be a German submarine! home's in Charleston!" —Morrow Mayo in "The Home Sector." FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOWELL, MICHIGAN MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE BANK Organized January 1, 1920 Opened for Business February 14, 1920 Capital Stock - - $100,000.00 Liability 200,000.00 Surplus - -- 10,000.00 OFFICERS: DIRECTORS: L. E. HOWLETT, E. A STOWE R. E. BARRON President Chairman of the TRACY CRANDALL JOHN WRIGGELSWORTH Board of Directors L. E. Vice President L. E. HOWLETT E. G. LAWSON CHAS. ITSELL Vice President E. G. LAWSON EUGENE A. FAY Cashier C. S. LINE hW. B. READER Consult us about your W B. READER W. B. READER Assistant Cashier outside Investments. JOHN WRIGGELSWORTH Nothing too Large-Nothing too Small-To receive our Undivided Attention. Our Motto is: "Service to Our Patrons" Remember, Buddie, this War History cost a lot of money. The men whose names appear on these pages have made your Honor Roll possible. 128 L TO THE BOYS OF '17 - '19 Our Hearts were with you when you went, Our Thoughts were with you while you fought, Our Thanks are yours for our Victory. BARRON & WINES HOWELL MICHIGAN A. F. PEAVY & SONS Dealers in COAL, HAY, GRAIN, SALT, CEMENT, TILE, ETC. Howell Michigan I I ESTABLISHED 1843 WILLIAM McPHERSON & SONS HOWELL, MICHIGAN Unfailing honor and grateful acknowledgment is due every man who gave himself to his Country's Service in the Great World War. -M. J. McPherson 129 THE FIRST STATE and SAVINGS BANK HOWELL, MICHIGAN W. P. VAN WINKLE President GEORGE BARNES Vice President RESOURCES i: $ 50,000 iY Serve Serve: ARTHUR GARLAND JOHN RYAN H. L. WILLIAMS A. L. SMITH Cashier CAPITAL $75,000 SURPLUS r 17,000 d the Nation During the War. s the Public All the Time. DIRECTORS FRANK O. BURT GEORGE BARNES A. L. SMITH W. P. VAN WINKLE BRIGHTON STATE BANK BRIGHTON, MICHIGAN W. P. VAN WINKLE President W. T. FRY Vice President RESOURCES Over $300,000 ROY 0. NEWCOMB Cashier CAPITAL $20,000 SURPLUS and PROFITS $7,500 Met Every Call During the War. Meets Every Requirement in Times of Peace. DIRECTORS JOHN A. NELSON FRANK BERGIN A. L. SMITH FRED T. HYNE W. T. FRY ROY 0. NEWCOMB W. P. VAN WINKLE 130 L "WITH THE COLORS" OUR WAR RECORD Twenty-two Men With the Colors. LIBERTY MOTOR PISTONS FOR: Lincoln Motor Car Company Buick Motors Corporation Trego Motors Corporation TRAINING AND BATTLE PLANE PISTONS FOR: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation. HISPANO-SUIZA PISTONS FOR:Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation. SPENCER-SMITH MACHINE COMPANY HOWELL, MICHIGAN Largest Exclusive Manufacturers of Pistons in the Automotive Industry I 131 ROY T. SPRAGUE tir; Authorized Ford Sales and Service Garages at Howell and Fowlerville Compliments of Mr. Roy T. Sprague SPRAGUE'S GARAGE, FOWLERVILLE beautifully decorated for the banquet to returned soldiers and sailors. given by the Townships of Handy, Conway and Iosco on May 27, 1919 132 COMPLIMENTSS In Appreciation of of JOHN S. VOGT FURNITURE and UNDERTAKING FOWLERVILLE The Men of Livingston County Who Wore Their Country's Uniform Richter and Dorrance FOWLERVILLE MICHIGAN I S. Thurlow Blackmer Deo M. Blackmer BLACKMER & SON CLOTHING and SHOES Established 1896 COMPLIMENTS of E. D. DEFENDORF HARDWARE, FARM IMPLEMENTS, HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS FOWLERVILLE FOWLERVILLE MICHIGAN r I You would not have had a County War History without the aid of these business and professional men. Show them that you appreciate it. 133 The State Bank of Fowlerville We Helped the Boys with Our Money and with Our Hard Work. We Were Twice Awarded Citations for Distinguished Financial Service. OFFICERS JOHN C. ELLSWORTH R. C. SMITH - E. SCHNEIDER - - - President Vice President - Cashier DIRECTORS JOHN M. BRADLEY LEWIS H. COOPER JOHN C. ELLSWORTH J. B. FULLER R. C. SMITH CIVILIAN BONUSES To the Editor of The Home Sector: I am an ex-soldier, but did not think of bonuses for soldiers until I had been home long enough to learn of the salaries and bonuses received by the war workers employed by the governmental departments in this city. Is it generally known outside of Washington that every employe of the Government with a salary of less than $2,700 annually is entitled to a bonus of $240 per year? These thousands of people have had between a seven and eight hour working day, and were well paid for every minute of overtime. Several thousand children from sixteen years up have taken from a few weeks to six months in a business school, then entered the government service as stenographers with an initial salary of $1,000 or $1,200 annually, and the bonus. Experienced stenographers or typists received a much higher salary than this. If these people received extra compensation for the part they took in this war I sincerely believe the soldiers' request for a bonus is justitied. — Eldred H. Buchanan, Washington. D. C. From the Home Sector. The S. A. T. C. received a bonus of $30 per month for its two months' work. Many of the fighting men received $30 per year as a bonus for their two years' work. A private's pay in the army was $39 per month; a sergeant of the line, $38 per month. The bonus was $60 irrespective of length of service. 134 In Memory of The Boys Who Gave Their Lives and Service GANNON & FOHEY AUTHORIZED FORD SALES AND SERVICE BRIGHTON MICHIGAN Monuments Pianos H. W. PINNEY G. W. Broadmore & Son GENERALMERHANDIE GENERAL MERCHANDISE BRIGHTON Artistic Lettering in Granite BRIGHTON Compliments of PHILLIPS & SON BRIGHTON Robt. Phillips R. L. Phillips W. H. PEEK Claude D. Hamilton PRINTER - -- DRY GOODS Proprietor Orpheum Theater FOWLERVILLE FOWLERVILLE MICHIGAN H. T. BLANK DICKSON & SON Wholesale and Retail JEWELER BAKERS FOWLERVILLE MICHIGAN HOWELL MICHIGAN Oakland, Hudson and Essex Autos; G. M. C. Trucks A. F. BENNETT 213-223 So. Michigan Ave. HOWELL, MICHIGAN The Best Place to Buy Farm Machinery 135 THE YANKS' CASUALTIES The following table shows the hazards in battle taken by the various branches of service in the A. E. F. The figures represent the number of men killed in battle and died of wounds out of every one thousand men in that branch who reached France. Branch of Service- Officers Men Infantry........................... 55 46 Engineers.......................... 10 6 Artillery........................... 8 6 Tank Corps........................ 16 7 Air Service......................... 31 1 Ordnance............................ 3 Quartermaster..................... 1 Signal Corps.......................5 8 Medical Corps...................... 4 5 Cavalry............................ 6 8 For every man killed in battle, seven others were wounded, taken prisoner or reported missing. Only six per cent of the wounded died and 85 per cent of all wounded sent to hospitals were eventually returned to duty. The total number of Americans taken prisoner was 4,434, of whom 297 died in Germany. The following table from a late War De partment report gives the most important casualty figures: Killed in action and died of wounds........ 49,284 Wounded................................. 205,690 Taken prisoner........................... 4,434 Missing in action........................ 2,913 Total................................. 262,321 FACTS ABOUT THE OFFICERS 200,000 officers served in America and abroad in all branches of the Army. Training camps furnished 96,000-48 per cent; those commissioned directly from civil life, besides the doctors, 13 per cent; those commissioned from the ranks. 16,000 -8 per cent. Of these men who rose from the ranks, 12,000 came from the National Guard-67 per cent; 6,000 from the old Regular Army-33 per cent. Of every six officers, three received their commissions in officers' training camps, two went directly from civil life and one had had previous training in the ranks. An Appreciation H. N. BEACH From Staple and Fancy Dry Goods SAM CURRAN and Shoes GROCER HOWELL MICHIGAN HOWELL MICHIGAN THE BOYS OF 191 7-19 Their Service was Rendered in Time of Need. Let Us Remember Them by True Thought and Deed. CHAS. H. SUTTON HARDWARE MICHIGAN HOWELL IN TIMES OF WAR, IN TIMES OF~ PEACE, USE PARSHALL'S UNIVERSAL FLOUR Made By THE C. A. PARSHALL MILLING COMPANY 136 Compliments of C. G. ROLISON Dealer in GENERAL HARDWARE and FARM MACHINERY An Appreciation From G. L. PITKIN DRUGGIST Established 1883 BRIGHTON BRIGHTON MICHIGAN H. P. MELLUS' DRUG STORE BRIGHTON MICHIGAN Phone 44 J. A. BRADY GENERAL MERCHANDISE BRIGHTON MICHIGAN 137 THE FORTY-TWO A. E. F. DIVISIONS Showing the Brigades, Regriments, and Separate Battalions in each Division REGULAR INF. DIV. BRIGS. 1 1 2 2 3. 4 3 5 6 4 7 8 5 9 10 6 11 12 7 13 14 8 15 16 INF. REGTS. 16, 18 26, 28 9, 23 5 Marines 6 Marines 4, 7 30, 38 39, 47 58, 59 6, 11 60, 61 51, 52 53, 54 55, 56 34, 64 8 M.G. BNS. 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6 7, 8, 9 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15 16, 17, 18 19, 20, 21 22, 23, 24 ARMY DIVISIONS F.A. F.A. BRIG. REGTS. 1 5, 6, 7 2 12, 15, 17 3 10, 18, 76 4 13, 16, 77 5, 19, 20, 21 6 3, 11, 78 7 8, 79, 80 8 2, 81, 83 T.M. BTRY., ENGIRS, F.S. BN. 1 TM Btry., 1 Engrs, 2 F'S Bn. 2 TM Btry, 2 Engrs, 1 FS Bn. 3 TM Btry, 6 Engrs, 4 TM Btry, 4 Engrs, 8 F'S Bn. 5 TM I-Itry, 7 Engrs, 5 FS Bn. 6 TM Btry, 6 F'S Bn, 318 Engrs. 7 TM Btry, 5 Engrs, 10 F'S Bn. 8 TM IBtry, 319 Engrs. NATIONAL GUARD DIVISIONS DIV. 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 INF. BRIGS. 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70.71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 IN F. REGTS. 101- 2 103- 4 105- 6 107- 8 109-10 111- 2 113- 4 115- 6 117- 8 119-20 121- 2 123- 4 125- 6 127- 8 129-30 131- 2 133- 4 135- 6 137- 8 139-40 141- 2 143- 4 145- 6 147- 8 149-50 151- 2 153- 4 155- 6 157- 8 159-60 161- 2 163- 4 165- 6 167- 8 F.A. BRIG. 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 F.A. REGTS, M.G. BNS. 101- 2- 3 104- 5- 6 107- 8- 9 110- 1- 2 113- 4- 5 116- 7- 8 119-20-21 122- 3- 4 125- 6- 7 128- 9-30 131- 2- 3 134- 5- 6 137- 8- 9 140- 1- 2 143- 4- 5 146- 7- 8 149-50- 1 ENGRS, T.M. BTRY, F.S. BN., TRAINS 101 102, 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 11.2 113 114 115 116 117 138 THE FORTY-TWO A. E. F. DIVISIONS Showing the Brigades, Regiments and Separate Battalions in each Division NATIONAL ARMY DIVISIONS DIV. 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 INF. BRIGS. 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 INF. REGTS. 301- 2 303- 4 305- 6 307- 8 309-10 311- 2 313- 4 315- 6 317- 8 319-20 321- 2 323- 4 325- 6 327- 8 329-30 331- 2 333- 4 335- 6 337- 8 339-40 341- 2 343- 4 345- 6 347- 8 349-50 351- 2 353- 4 355- 6 357- 8 359-60 361- 2 363- 4 365- 6 367- 8 F.A. BRIG. 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 F.A. REGTS. M.G. BNS. 301- 2- 3 304- 5- 6 307- 8- 9 310- 1- 2 313- 4- 5 316- 7- 8 319-20- 1 322- 3- 4 325- 6- 7 328- 9-30 331- 2- 3 334- 5- 6 337- 8- 9 340- 1- 2 343- 4- 5 346- 7- 8 349-50-51 T.M. BTRY., ENGRS. REGT. F.S. BN., TRAINS 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 THE WATCH ON THE RHINE WVith the departure for America of the First Division, the guard of American troops at the Coblenz bridgehead was reduced to a mere handful. The Army of Occupation on August 20, 1919, was an "army" of 6,400 Americans. To that guard on the Rhine the First Division contributed its supply train and a company of engineers, and the machine gun battalion left at our outpost in Germany is the most famous machine gun battalion of the A. E. F.-the historic Seventh which, motorized and driving at full speed, reached the Marne and held the bridges at Chateau-Thierry from the late afternoon of May 31, the first American troops in a celebrated American sector. The contingent left in occupied Germany is made up thus: Unit- Officers Eighth Infantry.................. 114 Seventh Machine Gun Battalion.... 16 Second Bn., Sixth Field Art........ 20 Thirty-fifth Field Signal Bn....... 15 First Supply Train.............. 16 First Mobile Ord. Repair Shop.... 3 Company A, First Engineers..... 6 Field Hospital No. 13.............. 6 Ambulance Company No. 26...... 5 Men 3720 379 620 473 485 45 250 82 153 Total......................... 201 6207 -The Home Sector. 139 MILITARY RECORD (Make a permanent record of your experiences) ME N Rank and Organization Entered the Army Navy 19 at Marines NA] umber '1 "7 TRANSFERS: Date Organization PROMOTIONS: Date Rank CAMPS AND TOWNS VISITED: Place Date of arrival Place Commanding ()fficer Departure Sailed overseas on the Landed at Sailed Home on the Landed at from 19 (ship) (port) on on (date) on 19 (date) (port) from 19 (ship) (port) (port) (date) 19 on (date) BATTLES AND ENGAGEMENTS: Place and Date WOUNDS, MEDALS AND AWARDS: Discharged from the service 19 at Camp 140 BUDDIES I HAVE KNOWN Names and Addresses of the Old Gang 141 SNAPSHOTS Memories of the Days of '17. '18, and '19 142 A SCRAP BOOK (Paste other clippings of interest on these pages) THE COST OF THE WAR DEATHS IN U. S. ARMY The relatively small losses of the United States Army in the war are outstanding in comparison with the proportional losses of the armies of the other nations that fought with us or against us. Only two men died or were killed out of each one hundred men in the naval or military forces of the United States, the total of battle deaths being 48,900. German battle losses were thirtytwo times as great as the losses of the United States, totalling 1,600,000. The battle deaths of all the armies are shown in the following table: Receit figures place the deaths in the American Army from all causes at 112,422-32 per cent, or 35,509, in the United States, and 68 per cent, or i6,699, in the A. E. F. Battle deaths were 43 per cent of the total, 51 per cent of all deaths were due to disease; more than twice as many men died of disease in the A. E. l. as in the United States. Up to Sept. 14, 1918, only 9,840 deaths had resulted front disease ill the American Army (rate, 5 per 1,000 pei year). But when the influenza epidemic was at its height in the second week of October, four out of each 1,000 troops in America died. GERMAN LOSSES The most complete official tabulation of German losses issued to date shows the following figures: I)ead: R ussia.................................. G erm any................................ F rance.................................. Great Britain........................... A ustria................................. Italy.................................... Turkey.......................... Serbia and Montenegro................... B elgium................................. R oum ania............................... B ulgaria................................ United States............................ G reece.................................. P ortugal................................ T otal.............................. 1,700,000 1,700,000 1,385,000 900,000 800,000 330,000 250,000 125,000 102,000 100,000 100,000 49,000 7,000 2,000 7,550,000 Officers.................... M en........................ Wounded: Officers..................... M en......................... 61,569 1,631,953 1,693,522 1.15,257 4,101,105 4,216,362 It will be seen from the above table that deaths for the Allies totalled 3,800,000, and for Germany and her allies, 3,650,000. The Australian forces during the war suffered a total of 307,900 casualties among the 400,000 men sent to the fighting zones. All Australian soldiers were volunteers, drawn from a population of less than 5,000,000. Of the casualties, 58,036 were deaths, 166,606 wounded, 483 prisoners, 193 missing in action and 82,409 sick. Prisoners and Missing: Officers.................... 22,528 Men................... 1,031,928 1,054,456 Total casualties.................... 6,964.340 The number of D. S. C.'s awarded in the A. E. F. was 5,271; the number of D. S. M.'s, 941; the Congressional Medals of Honor, 78, according to a War Department announcement. - American Legion Weekly. 143 A SCRAP BOOK (Paste other clippings of interest on these pages) 144 A SCRAP BOOK (Paste other clippings of interest on these pages) 145 A SCRAP BOOK (Paste other clippings of interest on these pages) 146 .i,! S.!ll I',' 1!: U11.U 11 11 I1 II;U:tul IIu i - ' i11 * 11: 11 ' 11 5 11;11 JI L~ —If 11:: An ALi.;7 rI j~~ --- 11 j i~ Inbhi~11 Ii IL - 0U K LI!ii i r I~;trated of the Norld Rea Wa ] L II;t IL I A I1 I Li ": I II L I I 1 II _ _ J ini 4 i _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ j=== =i-. === = _ _ _ _ _ B fla B i, R I i i dl -~ -s~o twl i isi. 11 4n i, *"'m lilnil jla t..._i.:,r;tJ ii i,....,. 1,: —.-::: B pill' B j,._-.. 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Set off by the murder of an ordinary Austrian archduke on June 28th, 1914, by a Serbian political fanatic, the conflagration which had threatened the peace of Europe for decades was thus destined to embroil the leading powers of the world in the most costly and bloody strife known to man. After a month's diplomatic argument over the affair, Austria formally opened hostilities with her declaration of war on Serbia. General mobilization folIowed quickly in Russia; a "state of war" was almost immediately declared in Germany. Then on August 1st Germany declared war on Russia, following this with an ultimatum to Belgium demanding that her troops be given free passage across that country. On August 3d, the Teutons included France on their list of enemies. This was followed next day by an ultimatum to Germany from Great Britain demanding that the neutrality of Belgium be respected. When this assurance was not granted by Emperor Wilhelm, Great Britain ii rab iH i: i. 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Their amazing preparations for the dream of world power almost |N h brought within their grasp the greedy ambition of the Junkers. || The initial successes of the German army in its advance through Belgium and on to- j Ij;-l ward Paris astounded the world. England and France reeled and staggered before the | | {|i j terrific onslaught of the famous Prussian Guards and the other crack armies of the Central Powers. Swept off her feet almost by the spectacular aggression of the enemy, the fate of l j France virtually hung from a thread as the invaders triumphantly swept on and on. [,| Early in September, when they were practically within reach of Paris, the tide was IN1 turned against them in the battle of the Marne, September 6-10. French themselves NI| attribute their good fortune at this point to the hand of the Almighty rather than to it 1 their superior military strength at the time. This marked the enemy's point of farthest fU " tcadvance.Bl The atrocities of the advancing Huns during the months of their early triumphs and II conquest have been called infamous by conservative journalists and correspondents. i|l Suffice to say, their bloodthirsty ambition to rule and conquer the world knew no bounds,; i | and that their acts and deeds of disgrace will forever remain one of the darkest of the | n many blotches brought on the German people during the European war. ili lii Believing that the United States had no part to play in the war at that time, President lb1 Woodrow Wilson, on August 4th, 1914, officially proclaimed the neutrality of the United 1 States. The war was thus confined to Europe for many months, a struggle mainly Jj between the two great European Alliances-the Triple Alliance composing Germany, l Austria Hungary and Italy, against the Triple Ententete composing England, Russia and Ij H~ ICopyright by Underwood & Underwood Devastated Soissons After Its Recapture by Americans and French. I H;1hH~1Ii1Ii1Hi " V: i iluiillhiJ'll.-~ —. - I -- U) ~lil~~ l-II ~~-~ ---ll-il __ IZ 1T V.~i~~-~-~-~-~ —.-~ aUI U~~ 11 Ui 11:: a.........:. t o.- 7. -;:H i Copyriglht by Urndewood &c Undcrwood. I X fthe American Lads' Most Brilliant Victories. i sil 'U' 'i1a II III U1.. ~ 'II II H: Belleau Wood, Famous as the Scene for one o 1;Fii::r:: (I jl::::lr j:::: (: B I: t( ri iCII f:j iit L:.:::: ( — ~-i j France. Italy, originally a member of the Triple Alliance, but later one of the chiet powers of the Allies, did not enter the war until 1915. She then declared war on all of Germany's Allies, but did not break with Germany herself until late in 1916. Before the war she was a member of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria but severed this connection to fight with the Allies. After the marvelous advances of the first year, the great battle line in Europe remained practically stationary for nearly three years and extended over more than 300 miles. The large armies of each force fought doggedly, suffered heroically and died willingly, in a mighty death-grip whose battles surpassed the most famous of previous wars for loss of life and destruction of property. The superb Armies of the Russians in the Eastern theater kept the attention of a large German force occupied and away from the Western Front. This fact aided the Allies tremendously and probably prevented a German Peace in the second and third years of the War. It was while France, England and Italy were staggering before the last big offensive of the enemy early in 1918 that America's force was thrown into the balance in substantial numbers. Her declaration of war against Germany on April 6th, 1917, grew out of the Central Powers' failure to recognize the rights of neutrals on the high seas. Repeatedly the rights of the United States were violated, and just as repeatedly Germany refused to discontinue her ruthless program of submarine warfare against the world. The sinking of the Lusitania on May 7th, 1915, without warning and with the loss of 1154 lives, 114 of whom were Americans, was regarded by a great many as just cause for a declaration of war against Germany. The President and Congress believing differently, failed to act, and it was not until more sinkings of women and children that the United States decided to step into the breach herself. 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The act produced an electrical effect on her people and almost instantly united her various factions, creeds, parties, and nationalities for one purpose-to crush Germany and her Allies. She became a workshop, with no hours, in her determination to end the European fight victoriously, and thus save democracy for the world. Every effort was bended to the cause, every penny of wealth was eagerly held ready for the call, and every atom of energy was expended in her feverish haste to redeem mankind. Her sons by the hundreds of thousands rushed to the colors, as their fathers did in the wars of their day, to see another victory added to the flag which had never known defeat. That the distribution of soldiers throughout the land might be as nearly equitable as possible, Congress passed the Selective Service Act in May, 1918, the greatest mobilization machinery developed by any of the 25 nations at war. Naturally there were obstacles and delays. A nation's task in rising up over night to send a formidable force three thousand miles overseas to fight for world freedom is not the kind that can be accomplished without some disorder and delay. But loyalty and union did it, and on June 26th, 1917, only two months after the declaration of war, the first American doughboy landed on French soil. On November 3d, 1917, the Yanks had their first clash with the Germans. On January 31st, 1918, a report reached America that American infantrymen were occupying first line trenches for the first time. I -ii 'Ii c~ It 'El IV:~ I ~' -1 t;.1'.,;.. |rr s z:_:::i I;..'S.~ I- -sa"~ I I 4:, i s z I t. '.' ib t.-. I '"~f I S' I.... FC~I wI Il,it:II;.11, IIi lni~'i i'. 10 ic 1"> i;: r F I ii. I i'. i —. i r:_j ~-':3: "tn ~-i —.;; V, t:l Alan —, I I — Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. French Crossing a Perilous Bridge on the Advance Toward St. Quentin, 1917. I t 4~ - 7 Z — '= X==..- -1 1 -- --------- ---------------- - ---— ~ ---- ~ —. ~i~~l.^ ----~ — L-^~~ il i l ii i i I Uii fl at," E43~~iiii:,, i:iiii!, i i"H- I il i ili~r13iiiiiiii~i:`1. AY Wi: %R,~, I 1 IT I!,Hiiji 7 1T:.-.r!T"r''TT11:lT LA~: l 17~ lilL jLi{ S Y I:ti?t iB I sil B' i ~-'Mi a.,..i 1' —' r T....< i — _.- i.-B. B - 1~~ I -.. 11 _. It~~,l~i 11i- ~~~ II 'It:11 'It B..~:;::i itn iI Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Austrian Artillerymen and Mechanics Assembling a Giant 30.5 Cm. Siege Gun for the Second Bombardment of Przemysl, June, 1915. E I i r.t t~ i E i j r i. i i j ii':II/ I E i i i iIll i, i 'I'll, n IT:.:.'::i.:::' 1 i::::-: III B H i H B — j '. ''-''' j -a By this time the United States had declared a state of war existing with Austria Hungary, Germany's chief ally, and had swung her domestic machinery into the greatest war machine conceivable. She had begun to raise by popular bond subscriptions billions of dollars to supply guns and munitions, and food and clothes, for the boys who were going over to France to do the job. Four Liberty Loans were floated during the war, and the total subscriptions to these amcunted to between eighteen and nineteen billions of dollars. This amount was taken by more than 50 million subscribers, and was to be only an insignificant factor in the financing of the war, according to the Treasury Department. This cost when compared with the total cost of the Civil War for four years-approximately $4,000,000,000-is proof enough that the World War was not comparable with any previous war in history. In April, 1919, following the armistice, another Fifth or Victory Loan of approximately the same dimensions as the Fourth, was floated. The wonderfully prompt and generous response of the nation to each of the calls of the Liberty Loans was one of the greatest sources of inspiration for the men in uniform who had gone to fight for those at home. The same patriotic generosity that marked the success of the Liberty Loan was evident in each of the scores of war work drives that were conducted for the various relief and welfare organizations. i A I:I I 1:, - |~,9 Food conservation-conservation of man-power, the work or fight order, the noble, work of the women who sewed and knitted night and day for the Red Cross and the boys, I the curtailment of profits and the simple economy was practiced by rich and poor alike, were but a few of the many war time measures that characterized the life of America's hundred and some million during the year and a half during which she was at war. No history of that war will ever have room for a just story of the part played by the loyal B- E home folks-those who waited and prayed, and worked and gave, to keep the home fires burning. __ Ti_-ii- iiLi-ji-ljil-ij 11jilij j:i-iilk: i~r; t 1 i i > Vj i0; 3I, A - ~t '..............................................:............-.......::... -'~' g'~ ':., K K 432 22 K 21 K 2 2 I Foremiost among the min raising of her army had beer that their strength might be not avalilable, and even thou was not more than half as mu were Ibeing trained and in tU Italy. England gladlyv placed h(c and before the war had endei of her own men and those of The importance of the United less than a month after hostil to European waters. By 0c American flag in foreign wat the wvilest scope in its histoi ranea-,n to the White Sea. At at the English Channel port, work. This service was not -C of its vital work kept it fror glorious, still they were none Naval men servcd on ne,~ marines that had no fear of fought and prev\?ented surpris tial problems of America, after prelim-inary plans for the -1laid, was the problem of transporting them to France, so thrown against the Hun on the battlefield. Shipping was igh it was being increased at maximum capacity, still there ich as was needed to transport the men in the numbers they ic numbers they were needed by France and England and 2r available shipping at the disposal of the United States, Id she had carried more than one million Yanks to the side U I States Navy in the war can hardly be exaggerated. Within ~ities were declared, she had sent a detachment of destroyers:-tober, 1918, there were 338 ships of all classes flying the Lers. The operations of the Navy during the war covered ry. They operated in European w~aters from the MediterICorfu, Gibraltar, in the Bay of Biscay', on the Irish Coast, s, in the North Sea, and at Archangel, they dlid creditable as brilliant perhaps as that of the army\, because the nature iithe front. Even though its activitie wr probably less the less important and necessary to the cause. irly 2000 craft that plied the w~aters of' the globe, on subthe under-sea perils, and in aviation where men of courage;e attacks with new\\-fouind weapons. ,7 '. 1 -"'IN III',,, "-l" I ,,I t', ': W, I II r II 11 llz'.' w. —. -, 11 -II.-I 11 1, 17 i i4,7 E z.i:::ll I Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. An American Whippet Tank Moving Up to the Support of the French foi the Storming of juvigny, Near Soissons, in the Last Weeks of the War.I -1 f EE I 11 J lljl I- -1 I - - - I -", 1. I 11 — -l-1-1-1 ------------- -111-1-1- -l-1 —l-.- - -.''I I - -. I --- 11 -- - - V — I — — '- -- p ___________________________________ ___________________________________________ J~F ljili idi1P4ll AhE~fiHil'' 1'iIS S SIilK w tii 41,X, a..st"' en. |J__ i i:::; ^: —...,., ^i.. J^^; ~~~~~~~1~-: ~~~~~~~-~-~~- -~~~~~. -~ -~~~-~ — ~~~~~~-~~ ~ii;:: I ~I_~.il..i, i!~ ~ r-i cr3;rT'..l.t iiJ 'r..i;~'..(.. —'.~ —;-~1~ —~~ —~ —~-~-:1 II 4I:11f 11 11iit 11 Al -11 iI II. 1 11 II 4:1 ji '1r:I 11; 11?U: 'Ur::11 'Vf ifi 11i.... 111.::: 41 ~ 'If:~: K Uti Copyrighlt by Underwood & Underwood. American Doughboys Shown Taking Another Hill After the Usual Spectacular Dash Over the Top. In diplomacy, in investigation at home and in all parts of the world by naval officers and civilian agents, in protecting industry from enemy spies, in promoting new industries and enlarging older ones to meet war-time needs these are a few of the accomplishments that are outstanding in the part played by the Navy in winning the war. Shortly after the declaration of war, the submarine problem had become so acute and the merchant ship losses so great, it became necessary to adopt more effective methods in dealing with the problem and making shipping safer. The system of convoy was adopted at the suggestion of President Wilson. This, although it slowed up shipping by fully twenty percent, enabled a comparatively safe passage of troops and was probably the greatest stroke of the Navy (luring the war. During all the time the United States was engaged in the war the enemy's naval forces, with the exception of the submarines, were blockaded in his ports. This, of course, prevented naval engagements of a major character. The destroyers, submarine chasers and patrol vessels, however, waged an unceasing offensive against the submarine menace to shipping and troop convoy, and only three vessels were sunk. These were the Antilles, the President Lincoln and the Covington. Each was struck on her return voyage, so that the loss of life was comparatively small. Only three fighting vessels were lost as the result of enemy action-a patrol ship, a torpedo boat destroyer and a cruiser. The other transports and destroyers struck by the enemy during the war reached port without loss of life. Other Transports carrying United States soldiers went down but these were being convoyed by the British Admiralty. Chief among these was the Tuscania, sunk off the Coast of Ireland February 5th, 1918, with a loss of 110 lives. ill; '1 11 U idll i,;1 U it I i|!1ii,.. I I II I i, A.. I *-. 1, I-' NI. tS Sit The most serious loss of life in the navy as a result of its war-time activi ' when 111 officers and men of the Coast Guard cutter Tampa perished when. x was sunk in Bristol Channel, England, in September, 1918. The Tampa had |b escort duty in the transport service. It had gone ahead of the convoy anc p soon after leaving the party. t S =-iiinmii _ __,,, _.,.i;., A.:.; ity resulted their vessel been doing d was sunk jfi;I f. _ I _shis-hi!:- ' l:3; trf= ~ ~l-;J ^tii 1..' {1 -.-..i. 1i _,. 'l. 4 S.!i I: j I & i, —x '44~ jU iLi ~~ II"' If th Fls " g O" at D n fr a Tp t Lins and a Few Fok( 'ersU. British Flyers "Taking Off" at Dawn for a Trip Over the Lines and a Few Fokkers. With its record of phenomenal transport service in protecting troops and shipping against the enemy submarine offensive; its splendid co-operation with the British Fleet in keeping the German navy in port and Germany herself blockaded; its stellar work with the giant 14 inch long range guns at the front; and its subsequent spectacular feat in first bridging the Atlantic by air, the United States Navy had a share in the World War which although as previously stated is seIdom characterized as brilliantly as that of the Army and Marines, still was equally important and essential in keeping the war wheels turning victoriously. The story of the activities of America's two million doughboys and marines in France is one which shouId be told in volumes rather than in paragraphs. From the time of their first clash with the Germans on November 3d, 1917, until they "let go" the last unwelcome guests against Fritz's lines earIy November 11th, 1918-their deeds are a succession of courageous and brilliant performances of duty. "When I think of their heroism, their patience under hardships, and their unflinching spirit of offensive action, I am filled with emotion which I am unable to express," General I I*~*j-"I ill ii;j~~~ i-i f j,.....:~ 'II i E H:.,..A ue i~ mi 10 IA Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. A Troop of the Famous Australian Camel Corps, So Conspicuous in Allied Successes in the Deserts of Turkey. ~ INP TI u}I'V.'......... -- -- -- -- -- J hiu; Ii:l: ' ij ii R iIn i: ind soldiers of the line of the I lt:' il t e BtiI h1~ I I `I if ~:-r -., r; j, a sp,,, *. X. A: 'j. *; - i CI A Giant 14-Inch U. S. Naval Gun, Manned by American Jack Several Miles' Range. John J. Pershing American Army. of our country." declared in commending the officers a "Their deeds are immortal, and they ha This simple tribute to the brave American lads who fought and died in France is indicative of America's reverence for her heroic armies. Their glory and fame will always live by the side of the deeds of their forbears in previous wars. In May, 1917, shortly after war was declared, General Pershing, well-known for his punitive expedition into Mexico, was selected by the War Department to command the American Expeditionary Forces that were to go to France. After gathering about him a small staff the General set sail. His reception in both England and France was only equalled by the readiness of the commanders of both armies to co-operate with the United States in the prosecution of the war, according to the General's own report. His general staff was organized in a short time and detailed plans worked out for the organization and training of the millions of American soldiers who were expected in France to heIp'finish the Hun. Training areas, designed to give the final seasoning to fresh troops arriving from the States before their entry into the front lines, and officers schools for the various arms of the service were established. Extensive construction provided vast warehouses, supply depots, munition storehouses, and the like for the huge task ahead. Although France offered much in the way of both ordnance and quartermaster property for use by the American Army, still enormous quantities of materials of all kinds had to be brought across the Atlantic. I' Flocking into the Army from civil life were thousands of professional and business men with splendid talent along the lines needed to build up this immense service of supply that was to keep the A. E. F. in action. To meet the shortage of supplies due to lack of shipping, representatives of the various supply departments were constantly in search of supplies and materials in Europe. A general purchasing agency was pro D,, tz~r: 7 i ':i;iiii!;;ii'''' ':;;; W ---------------- iiir i!l~ rlIiij. ii i iii iiii, Itr i: i 1,!1 I;: i r i i i i: i; j I: I4 A = W a = 13 =. I I I -- ci;Jiiii i i, Iin iii:i i ii ifi 1iii iI iii i iiiti:f i i ti ii i i: i: ifiii ~~; i..i I i= ---~ --- —----— ` ---"- ` 1-` . Im ni Ii T 1ii TiWTini IT TE' IlpjW IT_ I_ h l-j 0: |li~Copyrighit by Underwood e Underwood. "k j l The Guide Post to Headquarters of the German Field Marshal Being Guarded by Austrian Soldiers. I| i iov t 1 Unewo.i | vided, in order to better co-ordinate the purchasing and to prevent competition betwecen |1 i departments of the army. So successful was this system in the American Army that 1 > | it was almost universally adopted by the armies of the Allies before the war had ended. "| l;l"Our entry into the war found us with few of the auxiliaries necessary for its conduct j l tll | in the modern sense," General Pershing declared in his official report. "Among ourI - 1 most importent deficiencies in material were artillery, aviation and tanks. In order to l. meet our requirements as quickly as possible we accepted the offer of the French Govern- IH |i m l ent to provide us from their own factories with the necessary artillery equipment for i l thirty divisions. In aviation we were in the same situation and here again the French s ^ Government came to our aid until we were able to get our own air service program I Lrunder way. The necessary planes to train the air service personnel were provided and lj | we secured from the French a total of 2676 pursuit, bombing and observation planes. S l The first planes to arrive from America came in May, 1918, and a total of 1379 were lJ | received during the war. The first American squadron completely equipped by American |-: production, including airplanes, crossed the German lines on August 7th, 1918. For tanks l-S x we also were compelled to rely upon the French. We were less fortunate here, however, j|| tfor the reason that the French were scarcely able to meet their owvn production require- |g KI ments in this respect. It should be remembered by every American that the French 1|I Government always took a most liberal attitute in endeavoring to supply the shortages i I existing in the American Army." I Speaking of the soldiers in Europe General Pershing outlines with words of praise | | the work done by the various welfare organizations and of the responsive attitude found I p amontg tile soldiers by these organizations.| | "The welfare of the troops touches mny responsibility as Commander-in-Chief to the | mothers and fathers and kindred of the men who went to France in the impressionable | 1period of youth. They could not have the privilege accorded the soldiers of Europe ______ PiI~iIIII PIIIII~I1~ 18i1 I111117 IIlfiffiIIIU HtIIllliII4114filNi________________ jil f i in 11 i f ^11: ' —.i -u' (.a.tlu i!.* 11/ U.1::.11;t 11:::w ^1 Iii II 41 i^, It 11'''l i If. ^ii ai ^iB ' 111 i I,; i ii 1,i.-', r:-. -in 1-'," i;:~:r il |||'!1 I '' vU ------ - - -- - - - - T --- L11 _ 1 I 0:6- I Z" T 7 7~-.~-.~ - 1:- r ','I~:- tc liiiV)i Iir If ~ IL If, iI. 'U: II ' rt ii l~l.I II ^11 ilu 'tll!|1i 111 11 t11' ii It II III Hi II; Ifff I Sil (11 (11. i i i i i I I I I i i i i i i I I i 1: i 1 i " i I I, I I 11 1 iH 1 III1 Copyrilght by Underwood & Underwood. Chateau-Thierry Forever Will be Linked With Most Sacred Memories in America. The Deeds of the 8,000 Heroic Marines Here in July, 1918, Will Never be Forgotten. Ijli j..-.. f 1I ri, ' Ir^ t ' - fU t=. f;i i. f.i i w4zif~I, | _.t n r --- t I:..11 during their leaves of visiting their relatives and renewing their home ties. Fully realizing that the standard of conduct that should be established for them must have a permanent influence on their lives and the character of their future citizenship, the Red Cross, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Knights of Columbus, the Salvation Army and the Jewish Welfare Board, as auxiliaries in this work, were encouraged in every manner possible. The fact that our soldiers, in a land of different customs and language, have borne themselves in a manner in keeping with the cause for which they fought, is due not only to the efforts in their behalf, but much more to other high ideals, their discipline, and their innate sense of self-respect. It should be recorded, however, that the members of these welfare societies have been untiring in their desire to be of real service to our officers and men. The patriotic devotion of these representative men and women has given a new significance to the Golden Rule, and we owe to them a debt of gratitude that can never be entirely repaid." tI,. NW<* i i~...l.-' i.... 0!: i': 1"l '*+s il H '.E t-'H 1.. t i::1R.-.1 ItIE-: - 1 1ei,,:i1 LrfiC 1;'1..... 11.111 ---. --- —- - -7 -- - - - - - -- —.l- -, -. -~,TT --- -' ' I - - ----- -1; I - ' - ~ ";~1:;~i'i-i(i~i-!?:;i 1_1_.__iii ____i; _= _. __-; " = = = ~__.= _...,,-:. _ _,.-............. =,=,,^,=,,... \.;III::: It I:::... _ 3-E^7IJ M I1~~l-l~' ---_.~~. 5 ' M I'e - ' '. The First Division of the American Army, after finishing its preliminary training [ behind the lines, went to the trenches for the first time in October, 1917, as the first 1t contribution to the fighting forces of the Allies. By the time that the great German |i l offensive in Picardy began, on March 21st, 1918, the American army had four experienced divisions in the line. The great crisis that this drive developed, however, made it im - Ujl possible for the Americans to take over a sector by themselves. Gradually, as their!| i i.ll numbers increased and more reserves, fresh from the States, were placed in training [i;. behind the lines, the American boys went in in substantial numbers. Already they had IU displayed their splendid fighting qualities and had demonstrated that as soldiers they v IU i|i|j had no superiors. Incidentally, it did not take them long to convince the enemy that t l contrary to their own opinions, they themselves were not invincible. I!i,:! i l ii I: ii U i|1li On August 30th, 1918, the American forces took over the first American sector, in [|; preparation for the St. Mihiel offensive. The American line was soon extended across the Meuse River to the west edge of the Argonne Forest. The concentration of tanks, I11 J aviation units, artillery equipment, and materials of all kinds for this first great American ii Uii I offensive was enormous. The scores of elements of a complete army were moulded U:|! together, with American railroad and American service of supply units throughout. The i concentration included the bringing up of approximately 600,000 troops. The French i!i; U!; Independent Air Force, together with British bombing units and American Air forces, il i placed the greatest aviation personnel that ever took part in any Western Front offensive I| under the direct command of General Pershing. i '',ill Ui On the day after they had taken the St. Mihiel Salient a great share of the corps i! ll1 and army artillery that had operated in that offensive were on the move toward the area jUil U back of the line between the Meuse River and the western edge of the Argonne. The | U -if I German General Staff was well aware of the consequences of an American success along:ji |l|t this line, and it was determined to use every available American division in an effort i | I to force a decision at this point. The attack began on September 26th. The work of || - i the American army and of the American engineers in this drive will forever remain in i | i:::. iil Copyrighit by Underwood & Underwood.,t,,-|British Official Photo gDesolation of Flanders, Where the Germans Were Trying to Break Through Early in 1918.. Wno uF....................._............ a _._.._....._..... -._ -=_ _ ______..............................._ _. -....Ac -- ------- ---- - - I: W V- - -, k~ ----~~- 1ir I l I ij, I Wlii~ i it'll Jill [NMM 77, - - ---- rF z _ _ 7- _^_ - i li IIX, i: 1e.J ii|' *, I aiil J1} i 1 i1 i IAMl British Tom: II.jI.i i cS__._ii_'v+4-i -:-:::: i:-~:: _1 li. --- —XX i l'..-...;"!-~U rtshTm -3ii 'i ''- 1U ni, r!. T T-7 > FTI.. )..... il Underood Undrood Dio Dugout. ir Copyrzgllt by mies Shown on Outpost Duty in a Flanders in Ii;! -:.<::i:Ir 1; r. i. D.!,....j,,... ~1 -.. 1,r —., I..-:1 the memory of generations to come. Forcing their way through the densely wooded and shell torn areas, their fight was one of the most brilliant battles of the war. The offensive was maintained until October 4th in the face of innumerable wooded patches of snipers and concealed machine gunners. Fresh troops with little experience were thrown in with their seasoned comrades, who had become veterans over night with this most crucial battle as their teacher. The second phase began with a renewed attack all along the front on October 4th. More positions were taken with a precision and speed that always characterized the Yank army. Their dogged offensive was wearing down the enemy, who, continuing desperateIy by throwing his best troops against them, was helpless before the spectacular advance. At this juncture two divisions were dispatched to Belgium to help the French army near Ypres. On October 23d, the last phase of the Meuse-Argonne offensive began. Violent counter attacks by the enemy lost him heavily, while a regrouping of the American force was going on for the final drive. Plain evidences of loss of morale in the enemy forces gave our men added courage and spirit, and finally, using comparatively fresh divisions, the last advance was begun on November 1st. It was apparent at this time that the end was near for the Boche. Our increased artillery support did remarkable work in supporting the infantry, which by its dashing advance of the several weeks preceding had destroyed the Hun's will to resist. Between September 26th and November 6th they had taken 26,059 prisoners and 468 guns on this front. I n H Hg n 11 11 I1 *- 1 IC lt'! f F: I, ' I - I t —,-.; r -e I,~ %Z;T i 7':.r, `, =:!n I —,.-.1 I-;,S I 1 r,: —l r'q4 t_* iI I F-' - qf iM_7iIi_=-X -- I.- ILAIL> '1 'I., rl;: ( rii Yiii!iili!ili i;!i'riflii!i:!ij!!;;!liillIif;Iliifijlirliii:! i:iBiiiiiiiliriiR i;;lin 52 iii; Ifiijinji i iigiii 1 iii i i i tl r i i 1 iii ' i '1 jli:If di itiiiii!t!lr r'fl;t I:rtij?i i/ijt! i i j j 1i r,,,I i ~ i"c:!:li Ii: t Ilr i '(1 i:i: <' i I 4!'. * I I::, f ' ' ', -;-U il;:;;. iin j,,, inn i',.t i i " ", t,6 'ii - - ~U~i~llli 11 j1W 11 Ii B 'I ii 1W 'I 'It j1W II ll ll 1W lB Thie divisions engaged I ropean war, were the 1st, 2 77thi, 78th, 79th, 80th, 82c line for a length of time th., the line after onlv a few da When the armistice was icans in. the Argonne Foresproximately 2,0-53,347 troo] combatant troops. Up to IN died of disease, 14,811; dcle missing in action 1,160. A about 44,000 prisoners and Ini this short summary great war it is obviously in' great war machinery. The there; the unceasing devotl stood by them so unselfishly hor the comnmon cause, setti for the glorious victory in w albout. Outstripping a hutn n t his, the niost important of America's battles in the Euci, 3d, 4th, -15th, 26th, 28th, 29th, 32d, 33d, 35th, 37th, 42d, 1, 89th, 90th and 9 1st. Many of these divisions remained in it required nerves of steel while still others were put back in tys of rest. signed follow'ing a complete routing of the enemy by Amer-,t there were in France, according to General Pershig ap- I ps, less the casualties. Of this total there were 1,338,169 ~ovembcr 18th the losses were: Killed and wounded, 36,145; H itths unclassified, 2,204; wounded 179,625; prisoners, 2,163; E.s against thiis casualty total, the American forces captured I,400 guns, how'itzers and trench mortars. I of the principal activities of the United States' part in the I1 ipossil to more than skim over the various features of the heroism and gallantry of the boys who fought and died over ion and courage of the parents and citizens at home who T; and the determination of everyone, young and old, to unite ng, asid thir personadeisan interests, was responsibl Nhch America was so conspicuousl instrumena In binging 1 clrecifolcl the dimensions of any previious war of the United ii I If Copyr~ight by Underwood & Under'wood. Devastation Near Town of Albert, After Evacuation by the Germans in October, 1918. 'I ___________________________________________________________________________________ I II dliiLidlLuiiLililllll illilThili ,j AlP 11 IAI,. liii.1 1 did; Hilt Ut I W8IIY ll Pt II i Bn l I,i 1sI BI F:; Vl,~~i~~ i.. i-Sl MI C..-.....:1 1:.JI - F 'l 1 i f; Ii... '..........,![ - i: i; Copyrtisht by Underwood & Underwood. tl,' Graves of Marines Who Died "In Flanders Fields."! ini States, the task accomplished was a revelation to all when viewed in retrospect. The 1|, accomplishments of the Liberty Loans, the devotion of the millions of mothers and sisters in behalf of the Red Cross, the wonderful response of the country to the operation i i' I of the Selective Service Act in raising an army of millions the sacrifices of all, at home | and abroad, were universal during the year and a half at which America was at war. i Loyalty and lo ve of country were terms with new meanings. Sedition was lurking only here and there, and this was promptly done away with through the efficient secret servic e depa rtment and popular opinion. T he four mi llion Am eric an boys who were under arms, many of them at the front and the remainder eager for the chance to jumpn Ili in, convinced the world that the fighting blood that gave birth to their nation had not t been diluted through the riotous living of a century. The brave lads who gave their i lives and are now buried over there went to their fate with hearts full of joy, and in a Ii manner that gave courage to the veterans of four years who fought beside them. And!| their brave mothers in the States who waited in vain for peace to bring their sons back to them, made the greatest sacrifices within their power with a courage and willingness! that was unequalled even by the Spartans themselves. When the history of the great European struggle is permanently written, there will i i be no more brilliant chapters than those telling of the part played by the United States i of America in stamping out militaristic autocracy from the world.iil iI il I I 1-1 tC I 3ZCrT CI -Hri l,,=, ij! t i r ~ ~ — rr1 a I '- l ~~ x n L- = 3940.9 73^46