GAR Photo Project - Daniel B. Allen

  Years ago I acquired a box of GAR photos and information from an Illinois historical researcher.  I will be posting the photos and information here.  No warranties on anything here, take it as a starting point. 

Daniel B. Allen

Principal Musician

Co. E. 77th Ill. Inf.

d, Jan. 3, 1905

GAR Photos Project - S. E. Adams

 Years ago I acquired a box of GAR photos and information from an Illinois historical researcher.  I will be posting the photos and information here.  No warranties on anything here, take it as a starting point. 

S. E. Adams

29th and 81st Ohio Inf.

d. June 19, 1897

Huron College (Huron, South Dakota) Graduates, June 1940

 Huron College Graduation

June 4, 1940

Bachelor of Arts degree candidates:

Elvin Edwin Beemer
Gordon Bernard Bjornson
John William Bottomley  (Cum Laude)
Richard Amos Bryson
Donald Joseph Burg
Chul Yeung Chan
Macel Janet Eggleston   (Cum Laude)
Ray Belmont Engbretson
Albert Frost
Marvin Ralph Furch
Helen Carol Habicht (Magna Cum Laude)
Leonard Edward Herther
Jean Marcella Hetlinger  (Magna Cum Laude)
Gail Laverne Hilgenberg
Thomas George Hinde
Arnold Hohm
Verna Lillian Jonason
Robert Matthew Jones
Kenneth Elwin Knapp
Jean Bernice Lewis
Betty Jane Martin  (Cum Laude)
Grant Evans Pasek
Ferdinand D. Pullman
Lyle Lee Schuelke
Willart Henry Schwant
Francis Warren Shreve*
Augustine Allen Sisson
Floyd Richard Thompson
Viola O. Tidemann
Carl G. Trautman
Floyd Seymour Ulrich  (Magna Cum Laude)
Marjorie Helen Wagner
Estol Williams*
Francis Ora Williams*
William Edward Wuest

*These people expect to fulfill the requirements at the close of summer school

Bachelor of Music Degree

Jeanette Eloise Noel

Pfc Bucking for a Discharge Gets It at the Ripe Old Age of 14

 From The Stars and Stripes, Wednesday, March 15, 1944, Vol. 4, No. 114

Pfc Bucking for a Discharge Gets It at the Ripe Old Age of 14

Fred C. Bennett, a 14-year-old Pfc, is leaving the Army and going back to school.  His application for discharge has been approved by Army authorities, ETOUSA headquarters announced yesterday.

Bennett, whose home is in Atlanta, Ga., is a member of a colored General Service Engineer unit doing construction work in England.  He earned his Pfc strip just last month.

He entered the Army Mar. 12, 1943, at Fort Benning, at the age of 13, when other kids his age are "bucking" for First Class Scout.  He had registered with his local Selective Service board, giving his age as 18.

Before his unit left the States Pfc Bennett had decided that the United Nations could win the war without him and had sent home for his birth certificate.  He applied for a discharge, and the papers finally caught up with him in England.

He is only 5 feet 3 1/2 inches tall and weighed only 109 pounds when he entered the Army, but Army food has added another 21 pounds.  "He is one of the most popular members of his company and a good worker and soldier," the Army's announcement of the discharge said.

1919 Huron High School Graduation

 

Monday, June 9, 1919

The Daily Huronite

GRADUATION OF H. S. CLASS TO OCCUR JUNE 19

War Has Reduced Size of the Senior Class Roll

    The commencement week program of the local high school will begin Sunday evening, June 5, at 8:30 o'clock when the sermon to the graduates will be delivered by the Rev. Hubert Ketelle, pastor of the Presbyterian church.  The baccalaureate services will be held in the Presbyterian church.  On Tuesday evening, June 17 at 8:30 o'clock the seniors will give their class day exercises in the high school auditorium to which the public is invited.  On Tursday [sic] evening at 8:30 o'clock the commencement exercises will be held in the Grand opera house.  The Rt. Rev. John Poyntz Tyler, bishop of North Dakota, will deliver the address.  His subject will be "Graduation."

    Owing to the fact that a number of the boys that should have graduated with the class this year were prevented from doing so by enlisting in te [sic] military service, the class is smaller than usual this commencement.  The class roll in composed of the following 

Senior Class Roll.

Ackerman, Lenita

Alley, Enos

Anderson, Walter

Bosworth, Flora

Brock, Floyd

Burtt, William

Chesire, Edna

Christensen, Paul

Clark, Irene

Coldren, Alca Belle

Coldren, Dorothy

Deane, Esther

Dolan, Josephine

Doner, Ruth

Erickson, Evelyn

Francis, Donald

Gamble, Addie

Griffith, Winnifred

Griffith, Raymond

Heiss, Hazel

Hughes, Lois

Hutchinson

Issenhuth, Mona

Johnson, Ardus

Johnson, Uarda

Kyde, Myra

Kyde, Myta

Lundberg, Florence

Mason, Margaret

Medbery, Keith

Meyer, Alice

Musolf, Laura

Newton, Grace

Pfeffer, Frederick

Reese, Sheldon

Ruvel, Niel

Schaller, Genevieve

Smart, Rachel

Smith, Milo

Thompson, Noel

Venables, Wyatt

Warner, Oliver

York, Ruth

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1884 Mantorville, Minnesota High School Commencement

 THIRD ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT

of

Mantorville High School

at

Court House Hall

Thursday Evening, July 3, 1884

Eight O'clock

Prayer

Music
Piano Colo: "Lohengrin"  Richard Wagner

Salutory and Oration, John C. McMartin
Essay: Miss Olive H. Blanch

Music
Solo: "Orpheus with His Lute" Arthur S. Sullivan

Essay: Julius Caesar  Miss Mabel E. Bardwell
Class History and Prophecy  Miss Libbie I. Lathrop

Music
Piano Solo: "Champagne"  C. Voss

Essay: Importance and Influence of the Woman Character  Miss Cora E. Warner
Oration, with Valedictory Address.  Frank B. Leach

Music
Quartet:  "Twilight Bells"  White

Address.  Mr. James McLaughlin

CONFERRING OF DIPLOMAS

BENEDICTION

THE GRADUATING CLASS

Miss Mabel E. Bardwell
Miss Olive H. Blanch
Miss Libbie Y. Lathrop
Miss Cora E. Warner
Frank B. Leach
John C. McMartin

Compliments of Frank B. Leach

The Death of Thomas Colwell Jr.

Below is a copy of the letter written by Captain Sylvester Otman of Co E, 112th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War.  It was penned on January 9, 1863 from Lexington, Kentucky, to Mrs. Mary R. Colwell, widow of Thomas Colwell Jr.  Colwell died from typhoid pneumonia.  This letter is to inform the young widow of her husband's death.  A transcription follows the images.

Lexington, Ky Jany 9th 1863

Mrs. Colwell:  It is a sad task that my duty now compels me to perform.  Your husband is no longer in the land of the living.  He died last night about midnight without a struggle.  He had been unwell about two weeks but not seriously until about three days ago when he was taken suddenly worse and gradually declined until he died.  His disease mainly was the typhoid fever.  His clothes except what we buried with his body I have in my possession and are subject to your order.  He had about twenty dollars which he received from the paymaster on the first of January but placed in the hands of the surgeon for safe keeping.  Yesterday Greenawalt called on the surgeon and got the money as he said to send you.  I called on the surgeon for it to send you but found that Greenwalt had it.  Your late husband was buried with military honors in the Cemetery at Lexington in a very beautiful place indeed.  I sympathize deeply with you in your sorrow, but you have one consolation, and that is, he always did his duty cheerfully as a soldier.  All the care that could be was taken of him in his sickness.  He suffered but little in his last sickness and died easy.  I do not know yet how much you are entitled from the government but it will be between eighty and one hundred dollars besides what Greenawalt has in his possession.  Hoping this may find you well I remain your friend,

S. F. Otman, Capt. Co. #

112th Reg. Ill. Vol.