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                     A HISTORY OF BLAIR COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA

                UNDER EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF TARRING S. DAVIS

                         LUCILE SHENK, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

                                    VOLUME I

             HARRISBURG: NATIONAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, INC., 1931

                                   CHAPTER XXI

                                  THE WORLD WAR

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THE events of the World War affected so many persons in so many different ways, 
and encompassed almost all the interests of a great majority of our people, that 
the Spanish-American War of a little more than three decades ago is over-
shadowed. Blair County furnished two companies of men, Company C, Fifth 
Regiment, was made up of men from Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Clearfield, 
Centre, Somerset, Indiana and Cambria Counties, with Colonel Theodore 
Burchfield, of Altoona, in command. John H. West was captain of Company C, and 
H. A. Miller, a Civil War veteran, was the first lieutenant, while William 
VanAllman served as second lieutenant. Captain C. S. W. Jones commanded the 
Sheridan Troop. He was assisted by T. M. Fleck, first lieutenant, and H. S. 
Fleck, second lieutenant. Both companies went to Mt. Gretna for training on 
April 27, 1898. Company C was transferred to Chickamauga, Georgia, and Camp 
Hamilton, Kentucky, before the men were discharged on September 17th. Sheridan 
Troop met different experiences. The members remained at Mt. Gretna only a short 
time before they were put under the command of General Nelson A. Miles in Porto 
Rico. There they became a part of the Pennsylvania Cavalry, and Captain Jones 
was promoted to the rank of major. Sheridan Troop returned on September 20th, 
and received elaborate receptions just as did Company C. Other citizens of this 
county fought in the Philippines, in China and on the Mexican Border.

                            PRELIMINARY ORGANIZATION

The declaration of war by the United States against Germany in April, 1917, and 
those against other Central Powers, that ensued, found citizens of Blair County 
willing and anxious to give their time and property to the interests of their 
country. Men, women and children participated in the activities of the years 
that followed, until the surviving soldiers, sailors and marines laid down their 
implements of war and turned their attentions to securing enduring peace.

How many of our citizenry were identified with the various branches of United 
States service then, will probably never be definitely ascertained. The 
Armistice of November 11, 1918, came at a time when many troops were in France 
at the front, at ports on the seaboard, in hospitals, serving with troops of 
other Allies, in transports on the high seas, and in camps at home. There was no 
definite preparation for the Armistice, so that the change of orders and the 
countermanding that it necessitated, brought an almost unprecedented confusion. 
The gigantic organization, and rapid training of raw recruits, that succeeded 
the entrance of the United States into the World War, was also unprecedented. 
But it is possible to understand the difficulties met by the historian in 
establishing the number, names, or addresses of World War veterans when it is 
con-

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sidered that in many cases dates of discharge and the number of company or 
regiment, that appear on discharge papers and in the Pension Bureau at 
Washington are often at variance.

There are other conditions that render it impossible to present a complete list 
of veterans. Some of these will appear later. Only the compiler who aims to get 
accurate data realizes how many men were "missing in action." Month after month 
privates and officers who were despaired of more than a decade ago, reappear in 
foreign capitols. Pennsylvanians who served in the World War are scattered from 
Archangel, Russia, to Sidney, in Australia, and over the length and breadth of 
the American continents. Surely no such opportunity for travel and "seeing the 
world" presented itself before or since the World War, and in the confusion of 
its sudden termination many persons took advantage of the opportunities thus 
afforded.

The preparation for America's participation in the cause of the Allies began 
immediately after the declaration of war. Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, of 
Pennsylvania, began the organization of County Public Safety Committees 
throughout this state at once. In Blair County, J. Banks Kurtz, our present 
representative in Congress, became the chairman of the local unit, and Jesse C. 
Sell, secretary. Among the other original members were: Dr. A. L. Feltwell, John 
Lloyd, Jr., W. S. Aaron, and H. A. Davis, of Altoona; T. H. Greevy and W. D. 
Libby, of Williamsburg; John Elliott and J. D. Hartman, of Hollidaysburg, and 
Dr. A. L. Garver, of Roaring Spring. The first activities of this committee were 
directed toward organizing the resources of the county so that they might be 
used most effectively to further the interests of the country in the war. This 
was accomplished by arousing patriotic feelings and willingness to serve through 
a great public, patriotic demonstration that was held at Altoona on May 12, 
1917. This will be referred to, in more detail, later. C. L. Brumbaugh, J. D. 
Hicks and Arthur D. Goldschmid worked with the committee to make the 
demonstration successful in every detail. On May 7th, Governor Brumbaugh 
enlarged the local Public Safety Committee by appointing the following persons 
to serve on it: William I. Woodcock, S. I. Stoner, J. V. Taylor, John L. 
Haberstroh, James P. Bartley, J. L. Minick, D. G. Myers, T. J. Forbes, J. H. 
McGrail, Joseph C. Foreman, Dr. Joseph D. Findley, William M. Stump, Honorable 
H. C. Barr, Peter C. Clare, Walter Greevy, J. W. Few, Charles Runk, W. C. Shuff, 
R. J. Fay, Frank Hastings, F. M. Hetrick, J. D. Miller, F. A. Bell, E. J. 
Harkness, E. E. Lewis, H. R. Whitehead, J. E. Smith, Dr. S. L. McCarthy, I. N. 
Atherton, George W. Creighton, Charles Hughes, C. W. Bush, R. J. Bremmer, C. Y. 
Hendrickson, R. O. Hart, G. C. Hiner, and N. W. Smith, all of Altoona; John L. 
Porter, Charles M. Waple, G. W. Strong, Harry Johnston, George Givler, and W. E. 
Hoffman, of Tyrone; J. M. Delozier, of Hollidaysburg; H. F. Cox and H. S. 
Henshey, of Bellwood.

The permanent officers of the organization were elected on May 7th. They were: 
chairman, J. Banks Kurtz, of Altoona; vice-presidents, Dennis O'Leary, of 
Altoona; Dr. A. L. Garver, of Roaring Spring; D. Shelley Kloss, of Tyrone;

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C. L. Nonemaker, of Altoona; William D. Libby, of Williamsburg; secretary, Jesse 
C. Sell, of Altoona; assistant secretaries, J. V. Taylor and Charles Kelley; 
treasurer, Frank Hastings, of Altoona; executive committee, J. B. Kurtz, H. A. 
Davis, John Lloyd, Jr., W. S. Aaron, and J. D. Hartman. After the patriotic 
demonstration on May 12th the chairman appointed fifteen units of the Public 
Safety Committee to make its work more effective. The directors with their 
respective units were: Oliver Rothert, Altoona, finance; A. D. Houck, Altoona, 
publicity and education; Harry A. Thompson, Tyrone, legislation; Dr. A. L. 
Feltwell, Altoona, allied bodies; Dr. J. D. Findley, Altoona, sanitation and 
medicine; William F. Gable, Altoona, civic relief; Dr. W. Frank Beck, Altoona, 
food; M. H. Canan, Altoona, material; Honorable J. L. Hartman, Hollidaysburg, 
industrial plants; L. C. Wolfe, Altoona, motor trucks; W. C. Westfall, Altoona, 
civilian service and labor; James P. Bartley, Altoona, military service; R. F. 
Bankert, Altoona, naval service; B. J. Clark, Altoona, guards, police and 
inspection; Noel W. Smith, Altoona, transportation. The latter unit included all 
types of transportation, and Mr. Smith was assisted by Joseph Slutzker, S. S. 
Crane and Harry G. Hinkle, who directed the various sub-divisions. Additional 
members were appointed to the executive committee. They were: Thomas H. Greevy, 
N. W. Smith, Dr. J. C. Nugent, H. K. McCauley, Honorable J. D. Hicks, Charles T. 
Derick, Mayor Charles E. Rhodes, R. Bruce Dunlap, all of Altoona; Richard 
Beaston, of Tyrone; John Woodcock, of Hollidaysburg; Ivan Garver, of Roaring 
Spring; Samuel March and Harry A. Sparr, of Williamsburg; M. R. Brumbaugh, of 
Martinsburg, and Dr. J. L. Brubaker, of Juniata.

Little time elapsed after the declaration of war until men began to volunteer 
for military and naval service. Not until September, 1917, did the first quotas 
of drafted men leave for the camps. For this reason the names of enlisted men, 
gleaned from the columns of the Altoona Tribune and the Altoona Mirror, appear 
first.

Mention should be made here of the Third Regiment. This division of the service 
was made up of local recruits who were stationed at a temporary camp, known as 
Camp Cresswell, on the Anderson Farm, north of Altoona. The men lived in tents 
there. After May 4, 1917, the camp was transferred to the Gwin Farm, at Juniata 
Gap. About fifty men of the engineer and supply companies of the Third Regiment, 
Pennsylvania Infantry, were quartered there for a time

SOME RECRUITS

More than 380,000 men served in the army, navy, marines and other branches of 
the war department, from Pennsylvania during the World War. The World War 
Historical Commission at Harrisburg is engaged in compiling the service records 
of these men. The task is enormous, and the director despairs of ever accurately 
completing it. The arrangement of names has been alphabetical, so that it would 
be an impossible task to go through the cards to discover how many, and which 
men are accredited to Blair County. Through the newspapers

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of the period, and the draft board records, an inadequate list has been 
prepared. Some of the men sent by the local draft boards were volunteers who 
entered the service after they had registered for conscription, before drafted 
men were prohibited from voluntary enlistment on December 12, 1917. Thus it is 
that the names of men who volunteered their services will appear among others 
who were sent by their communities. Among those men accredited to Altoona in the 
following lists are some persons who resided in what was then the borough of 
Juniata. The Altoona Tribune and the Altoona Mirror published the names of 
volunteers at the local recruiting offices before the draft boards were 
organized. It must be remembered however that many men who considered Blair 
County their home were at school, or holding positions in other parts of the 
state and nation, and enlisted at the most accessible recruiting offices. Then, 
too, various branches of the service had their own recruiting offices in the 
larger cities of the country, and frequently the men sought to enter special 
branches of the service through them.

On May 2, 1917, the army recruits at the Altoona office were: Edwin A. Wert, 
Albert B. Fonner, Harry E. Eirhart, Myrle B. Lear, Harry A. Brumbaugh, Samuel 
Guido, Daniel L. Mong, James L. Lightner and Arthur W. Martin, all of Altoona; 
Samuel B. Hainley, of Hollidaysburg, and John E. Kane, of Williamsburg. On the 
same day William James Glasgow, of Altoona, entered the navy.

On May 3, 1917, the army recruited Charles P. Irwin, Melvin E. Mitchell, and 
Fred F. Crosson, of Altoona; Nicholas W. Caster, Gilbert B. Stoner, Chester M. 
Prough, Joseph M. Bechtel, Luther R. Allender, Joseph P. Pitcher, George L. 
Kennedy, Paul C. Lytle, Herbert A. Smith and Isaac H. Sollenberger, of 
Williamsburg; Raymond M. Lyle, Paul W. Everhart, Ralph W. Barker and Martin L. 
Hetrick, Tyrone; John W. Woodle, of Hollidaysburg. William Nelson, of Tyrone, 
and Guy L. Bonner, of Martinsburg, entered the marines on the same day.

Edward McMullen, George A. Nixon, Otis R. Dougherty, W. H. Estright, T. E. Long, 
James Lindsay, of Altoona, entered the service of the United States Army on May 
5th. Charles G. Crumbaker enlisted in the navy on that day, too. Grant M. 
Valkin, Joseph Hoffman and Lloyd Estright, of Tyrone, entered the army at the 
same time.

Ralph E. Smith, of Altoona, joined the Third Regiment on May 6th. Dr. Galen E. 
Moyer, of Altoona, was the first physician of this city to get a post in the 
service of the United States. Dr. Moyer was assigned to the naval medical school 
and hospital at Washington, D. C.  Dr. J. E. W. Armstrong, of Hollidaysburg, 
entered the service at about the same time as a surgeon dentist.

Regulations concerning recruiting changed on May 7th, after which recruits for 
the field artillery, infantry and hospital corps were the only persons received 
at the Altoona office. On that date Benjamin L. Hewit, Stewart B. Over, Frank 
Over, Jr., Frank Peck, Joseph Stultz, and Filmore Nickles, all of Hollidaysburg, 
entered the Officers' Reserve Corps.

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Recruits for the army at Altoona on May 7th were: Lewis A. Brumbaugh, R. J. 
Fiester, Melvin L. Griffith, Thomas J. Forbes, Jr., Edward Irvin, Byron C. 
Miller, Robert C. Andrews, Gerald M. Grist, Rudolph H. Farbaugh, Robert D. 
Munnell, Clarence O. Stoltz, Robert B. Crissman, Charles W. Huffard, Wilson B. 
Perry, and Russell R. Perry, of Altoona; Harry H. Smouse, George H. Myers, 
Walter A. Bossler, Charles S. Geist, James B. Ridenour, of Martinsburg; Harold 
B. Baird, of Eldorado; Ralph W. Homer, of Lakemont. William E. Findley entered 
the marine corps then, and George Warren Bradshaw enlisted in the navy. Both of 
them were residents of Altoona.

On May 8, 1917, the army recruits were: Clyde R. Houston, Theodore Maleski, and 
William G. Beck, of Altoona; Joseph Incitti, of Bellwood; Jesse M. Rodkey, and 
Walter M. Hoover, of Williamsburg.

Raymond E. Schmidt, Arthur C. Mock, Paul E. Drummond, and Charles J. White, of 
Altoona, and Willard W. Woods, of Williamsburg, entered the United States Army. 
William M. Montgomery, of Duncansville, entered the navy, and C. M. Banks 
enlisted in the United States Naval Coast Defense Reserve.

The following men left Altoona on May 11, 1917, to enter the Officers' Reserve 
Corps at Fort Niagara: Archie Slutzker, F. F. Henneman, C. H. Hoffman, R. F. 
Love, A. C. Hawkins, H. Wallace, George Walton, Lennon Miller, Norman Lack, 
Lisle Airhart, Isadore Levine, Charles L. Miller, W. M. Hauser, John F. Stewart, 
H. D. Else, R. S. Schultz, A. D. Schultz, W. H. Slep, J. H. Little, D. K. Chase, 
John F. Walters, and Roy Meek, of Altoona; Frank Feltwell, of Ant Hills, 
Hollidaysburg; N. C. McConahy, Benjamin F. Jones, Robert Owens, J. L. Gaunt, W. 
B. Morey, and P. T. Winters. Mr. Jones had graduated from Princeton in the 
previous year, and had the distinction of being the youngest member of the 
class.

On May 10, 1917, the men who enlisted in the army at Altoona were: Ralph L. Orr, 
George E. McIntire, Rupert J. White, William F. Myers, Donald Y. Yarnall, Paul 
A. Just, Raymond C. Cole, Leon B. Brubaker, Charles R. Conrad, G. Dewey 
Detwiler, Clarence A. McManamy, David J. Kirk, Clarence F. Kauffman, John E. 
Weilder, Frank G. Balt, E. M. Walter, Melvin R. Matchley, and Roy A. Coleman.

Clarence S. Buck, of Altoona, and Frank H. Claar, of Newry, enlisted in the 
Third Regiment on May 11th.

The citizens of the county worked untiringly for the best interests of the 
country, and on May 12, 1917, held a great patriotic demonstration at the 
Pennsylvania Field and the Cricket Field, near Altoona. A parade preceded the 
ceremonies at the fields. Edward Brinton lead the Third Regiment Band. In all, 
twenty bands of the county were in the parade, and about 20,000 persons 
representing every type of activity and organization imaginable. About 30,000 
visitors witnessed the demonstration. Children from the public and parochial 
schools sang patriotic songs, and offered the pledge and salute to the flag. 
Mrs. Jean C. Milleisen lead the singing, while Rev. George F. Boggs, Ph.D., 
delivered the invocation. Honorable Charles E. Rhodes, Mayor of Altoona, served 
as

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chairman, and introduced the speakers who included Honorable Thomas J. Baldrige, 
Judge of the Blair County Courts; Honorable E. C. Bonniwell, of Philadelphia, 
and Colonel Hugh S. Taylor, of the Pennsylvania National Guard and the United 
States Volunteers. The Tyrone Band, led by John P. Potteiger, presented special 
musical selections, and 250 men of the Third Regiment of the Pennsylvania 
Infantry added military atmosphere to the event.

This demonstration served to kindle the fires of patriotism in many of the young 
people of the county, and enlistments continued to increase. On May 14, 1917, 
John W. Skelly, Leo T. Herbert, Herman G. Fockler, Nicholas P. Frederick, Earl 
G. Simmons, Hugh C. Wilson and Harvey S. Long, of Altoona, entered the army 
through the local recruiting offices. Russell A. Morgart, of Henrietta, entered 
at the same time, while Christopher C. Kocher, Clyde F. Curry, and Andrew J. 
Patterson, of Altoona, and James A. C. O'Connor, of McKee, enlisted in the navy. 
Frank P. Wesley, of Bellwood, identified himself with the Third Regiment on the 
same day.

Michael Sheedy, son of Dr. and Mrs. John M. Sheedy, was commissioned a captain 
in the Engineering Corps on May 16th. His brothers, Morgan J. Sheedy and Paul M. 
Sheedy, became identified with the Officers' Reserve Corps at Fort Niagara.

The army recruits of May 16th were: Charles E. Kerr, Lawrence J. Hatch, Andrew 
J. Gray, John H. Wolf, and Ira E. Werner, of Altoona; Samuel S. Prough, of 
Hollidaysburg, and Paul L. Mowrey, of Tyrone.

Charles A. Barr and Norman M. Lack enlisted in the Fifth Reserve Regiment of 
Engineers in the Regular Army, and Dr. Harry C. Metz entered the Medical Corps.

Walter G. Gates, George D. Wands and Everett Shelow, all of Tyrone, entered the 
army on May 17th. On the following day Chester W. Orner, James McCulloch and 
George Livingston were recruited into the army. William Jennings Saylor and Adam 
L. Barr enlisted in the navy. They were all residents of Altoona.

On May 19th, Claude G. Files and Cecil A. Kelley, of Altoona, entered the army. 
So did Ralph C. Wiley, of Juniata, and Edgar James, Lewis M. Hample, John F. 
Davidson and William DeLong from Tyrone.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company had been asked to enlist shopmen for work in 
France. In this way one of nine regiments of railroaders was recruited from 
local shopmen. More than one hundred persons volunteered on the first day after 
the call was made in May, 1917. On May 21st of that year, thirty mechanics from 
the Juniata and Altoona Machine Shops, and from the Altoona Car Shops departed 
for Philadelphia.

Lewis J. Ehringer, Elmer E. Springer and Joseph Springer, of Altoona, entered 
the army of the United States on May 21st. Recruiting stations were opened at 
Tyrone and Hollidaysburg on May 26th. Sergeant Floyd R. Myers was placed in 
charge of the Hollidaysburg office. Donald J. Schenck, of Altoona, joined the 
ranks of the 3rd Regiment on May 22nd, and the following men

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became attached to Company G, 10th Regiment, before May 26th: William L. Bowers, 
Samuel A. Marshall, Harry A. Schermerhorn, Nathan C. Woomer and Roy R. Rothrock, 
of Altoona; Charles E. Wileman, Williamsburg; Mac R. Saylor and John S. 
Frederick, Altoona; Earl Paul, Hollidaysburg; Gilbert E. Nale, Duncansville.

On May 28th, Harry E. Bennett, of Altoona, entered the base hospital service, 
and Lloyd E. Ramey, of Roaring Spring, Ralph E. Young, of Duncansville, and 
Charles J. Yost, of Altoona, entered other branches of military service. Roy E. 
Dillon joined the mechanics of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on May 31st, 
and on the same day Stewart E. Duff left for Fort Niagara. Charles B. Wilson 
enlisted in the army on June 1st. In the days just preceding the registration 
date set for June 5th, the following men enlisted in Company G, 10th Infantry: 
Maurice B. Williams, Altoona R. F. D.; Herbert H. Hoffman, George H. Vance, 
George J. Metzgar, Harry A. Wagner, Gilbert L. Schaaf, William F. Imler, John L. 
Hoover, and Joseph F. Miller, of Altoona. On June 4th, John P. Williams, 
Harrison B. Spencer, Michael Coloprice, Pietro DelVecgino, Harry L. Attig, 
Ercilino Francesco and Metto Criscervio, of Altoona, enlisted in the army. 
Samuel L. Hoover joined the marine corps at the same time. Ralph W. Culpepper 
who had served with the marines for four years reenlisted on June 5th.

On June 6th, about thirty members of the Ninth Regiment Engineers left for 
Philadelphia. The following Altoona residents were with the group: Edgar Fluke, 
G. H. Wolf, George Weber, William Barn, Robert Cooper and James Vaughn. 
Mechanics from the Pennsylvania Railroad shops continued to enlist. Among them 
were men employed as blacksmiths, machinists, helpers, stationary engineers, 
firemen, boilermakers, painters and carpenters.

The branches of the Altoona recruiting station at Tyrone and Hollidaysburg were 
closed on June 7th. One had been established at Cresson, in Cambria County, and 
it was continued. On that same day Marcellus J. Yahner, William H. Harney and 
Roy B. Smith, of Altoona, enlisted in the army. Guy M. Lauver, of Bellwood, and 
George W. Glunt, of Newry, entered the service at the same time.

By June 12th, Company G had its full quota of enlisted men. Among the last to 
join the company were: Albert L. Wilson, Henry Brandt, Clyde E. Wolfe, Martin O. 
Kitchin, Clair P. Nale and Joseph Policastro, of Altoona; Herbert A. Smith, of 
Williamsburg; Harvey H. S. Huston, of Hollidaysburg, and Robert A. Corl, of East 
Freedom.

In September, 1917, 116 men were recruited in Altoona, and this city ranked 
second in the number of men recruited in the Harrisburg District.

Recruiting in Blair County was rushed immediately before December 12, 1917. 
After that date drafted men could no longer enlist and choose the particular 
branch of the service that they preferred to enter. Accordingly, 127 men 
volunteered for the aviation, hospital and quartermaster corps of the army in 
the days preceding December 12th. Among those in the aviation group were: 
Charles W. Flickinger, Frank S. Jones and John Moran, of Altoona; Lester D.

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Dick, Roaring Spring; John A. Lydic, Collier; Peter E. Stufft, Imler; Roy A. 
Weaver, Bellwood; James L. Ingham, near Altoona; Eugene E. Clapper, Llyswen; 
Benjamin L. Landis, Mexico; Charles E. Corns, Alfred M. Ashburn and Frank W. 
Steinninger, of Altoona; Charles V. Suter, Williamsburg; John C. Rooney, 
Hollidaysburg; Harold G. Tobias, John I. Wyant, Zinas W. Sutter, William H. 
Conrad and Raymond C. Savage, Altoona; Chester L. Snyder, Petersburg; William E. 
Malone and George B. Rich, Altoona; Stanley R. Moore, Hollidaysburg; Emory F. 
Houseman, Paul R. Cherry and Ira J. Parsons, Altoona; William M. Miller, 
Hollidaysburg; John G. Kelley, John L. Shoup, Albert L. Fleck, and Eugene M. 
Banks, Altoona; William M. Haines, Juniata; Arthur Haupt, Altoona; George W. 
Rhodes, Hollidaysburg; Frank L. Foutz, Altoona; Roy J. Diehl, Claysburg; Leroy 
A. Lounsdale; Clarence E. Dunn, Altoona; William B. B. Gonter, Lakemont; James 
B. Grove, Harry W. Pheasant and Earl Stiffler, Altoona; Richard E. Skagerberg, 
Bellwood; Howard J. McCord, George R. Vance, Walter B. Yeatts, Marshall W. Rhea 
and Lloyd D. Lingenfelter, Altoona; William Nicholas, Morrisdale; Ralph E. 
Filer, John M. Plank, George W. McNally and Timothy L. Sheehan, Altoona; Ernest 
S. Wolfe, Lakemont; Robert H. Lindsey, Harry S. Rouzer and John A. Miller, 
Altoona; Robert E. Fleck, near Eldorado; Samuel C. Irvin, David S. Miles, John 
H. Krick, Arthur R. Mateer, Daniel C. Rosenberg, Anthony J. Sminsky, Walter F. 
Witaker, William B. Dively, John C. Colliflower, Harry E. Kelley, Jay E. 
Wunderlich, Walter M. Woodring, Harry E. McGregor, Charles F. McKee, Leonard J. 
Lonergan, Robert Davis, Harry M. Hart, Willard S. Bryon, Samuel G. McKee, Donald 
M. Peek, John B. Jarkadky, Charles A. McMullen, John L. English, Bruce Crum and 
Harry L. Nearhoof, Altoona; Frederick Ingham, near Altoona; Edwin A. Hart and 
George A. Stock, Hollidaysburg; Robert H. Seefield, near Eldorado; John D. Hill, 
Morrisdale; Charles L. Ketrow, Lakemont; Thomas Downs and John W. Fuge, 
Houtzdale; Ralph B. Kauffman, Roaring Spring; John P. Monash, Ganister.

Those who entered the hospital corps included the following: Juan L. Carter, 
Carlisle; William C. McMullin, Peter P. Sprock, Luther K. Lotz and Albert R. 
Hamilton, Altoona.

The quartermasters corps attracted the following recruits: Norton Gonsman, 
Rupert J. White, Raymond E. Noble, Paul R. Gearhart, Fay L. McClure, Charles A. 
Clare, Russell L. Bakely, Harry T. Morgan and Max Goldstein, Altoona.

                         DRAFT BOARDS AND CONSCRIPTION

While the Committee of Public Safety was engaged in rousing public sentiment and 
patriotic zeal the Congress of the United States prepared a conscription bill to 
put the man power of the country into military service. The country was 
organized in divisions, and part of the 4th and all of the 5th Division were 
allotted to Pennsylvania. In this state the sheriffs of all the counties, 
outside of Philadelphia, were called to a conference at Harrisburg to plan for 
the administration of the law. As a result the sheriff, president of the 
township commis-

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sioners, and the county medical inspector formed the central board of 
registration in each county. This board was empowered to appoint registrars in 
every election district, except in such instances when cities of more than 
30,000 population lay within the county. In those cities, of which Altoona was 
one, registrants were appointed in each election precinct of each city ward. In 
Blair County, Sheriff Harry Holland, County Commissioner R. F. Bankert, and 
County Medical Inspector Dr. J. D. Findley, made up the central board of 
registration. In the city of Altoona, T. C. Hare, Mayor C. E. Rhodes, and Dr. 
Edwin B. Miller formed a similar committee. This organization was effected on 
May 24, 1917. The day upon which all men between the ages of 21 and 31 years 
were to register was set for June 5th. Thus in less than two weeks the 
tremendous task of informing the public and organizing a clerical force was set 
in motion. In this work the newspapers deserve immeasurable credit. The Altoona 
papers particularly, gave much space to the activities of the central boards and 
the registration requirements. Sixty men were pressed into service to aid in 
registering the men in this city on June 5th. They were all volunteers. On the 
date set for registration more than 5,000 men were registered in Altoona. The 
county as a whole, including Altoona, had a registration of 10,727 men. The next 
task was to make copies of the registration records and prepare for medical 
examinations. Teachers of the county schools, and high school pupils, 
particularly those adept in stenography, rendered invaluable service in this 
work. Immediately after registration was completed four conscription boards were 
organized in this county. The duties of the members of these boards were 
arduous. Physical examinations of the registrants, exemption pleas, the 
organization of the quotas to be sent to camps specified by the federal war 
department, the induction into the service, and the care of innumerable details, 
all fell within the province of these men. A major part of the success of the 
United States in the great war is due to the thorough, accurate work of this 
small group of civilian officials. Indeed the only accurate and complete records 
of Pennsylvanians known to have been inducted into the service of the United 
States at the time of the World War are those of the draft boards of the various 
counties. What became of the men after they arrived at the camps to which they 
were directed is a different story, and one in which the difficulties previously 
described were unavoidable because unforeseen. In Blair County, Local Board, 
Division No. 1, was located at 3241 and 3242 Allegheny Street, Hollidaysburg. 
The officers, and those who assisted them in the work, were as follows: W. 
Lovell Baldrige, chairman; Robert W. Smith, secretary; Wayland R. Palmer, M.D., 
chief medical examiner; Roy Deck, M.D., member resigned to enter the United 
States service in July, 1917; Harry S. Holland, resigned to enter the service of 
the United States as a captain in the Remount Service in April, 1918, and was 
succeeded by Mr. Baldrige; J. Lee Plummer, government appeal attorney; Robert C. 
Irwin, M.D., and Frank R. Shoemaker, M.D., medical examiners; Elizabeth Wareham 
Smith, chief clerk; Laura Sophia Baldrige and Elizabeth Christy Stanley, clerks; 
Private Victor Paul Gearhart, sergeant-at-arms; James L. Lusardi,

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official interpreter; Edward E. Fuller, clerk to the medical examiners; J. Henry 
Albright, page; Corporal John Brenneman, messenger; Revs. E. E. Harter, William 
H. Orr and Julius F. Seebach, emergency workers during the influenza epidemic; 
Altoona Hospital, medical advisory board.

Local Board for Division, No. 2, had its headquarters at Tyrone. William E. 
Nevitt was the chairman. The other officials and assistants were: Andrew F. 
Palmer, secretary; Dr. Luther F. Crawford, chief medical examiner and member of 
the board; R. H. Gilbert, government appeal agent; J. Van Taylor, chief clerk; 
Esther McCanus, Luella Fulton, Samuel Bressler, and J. Clarence Burns, clerks; 
Helen Schirm, Margaret J. Fulton, Virginia Stewart, Anna Wertz, Lester J. 
Palmer, Fred C. Buck, Jr., Roy Hampton, William Lowrie, Jr., and Lloyd Tyson, 
emergency clerks; Dr. Theodore Stine, dentist; Thomas Coleman, farm advisor; 
Drs. W. S. Musser, John Nason, R. L. Piper and W. L. Lowrie, emergency 
physicians; W. L. Pascoe, W. L. Hicks and R. H. Gilbert, legal advisory board; 
Albert Pascoe, Frank Troutwine, Joseph Maschke, W. A. Kennedy, August Miller, 
Joseph Smith, George Gibbs, W. L. Rich, Joseph Branstetter, Andrew McCamant, 
Robert H. Biddle, N. C. McConahy, Mr. and Mrs. Clark McLanahan, Prof. W. W. 
Raker, William Baird, B. E. Wentzel, George M. Meyers, Edwin B. Balthaser, 
Walker B. Seward, Robert H. Fay, Rolland A. White, Samuel H. Owens, J. R. Sloan, 
Russell M. Seward and George C. Kelchner, Jr., associate members of the legal 
advisory board.

Board, No. 1, at Hollidaysburg had jurisdiction over 6,050 registrants in the 
county, of whom 706 were inducted into the service. Of this number, 403 were 
sent to the general supply camp at Camp Lee, Virginia; 49 to cantonments, camps, 
barracks, colleges and training stations; 20 to Vancouver Barracks, Washington, 
as soldiers in the Spruce Division; 6 to the military aeronautics camp at Kelly 
Field, San Antonio, Texas; 1 to the gas defense section at Washington, D. C.; 
139 to college vocational divisions. The latter group was the largest number 
sent by any local board in the state. The townships and boroughs that fell 
within its jurisdiction were: Allegheny Township, Blair Township, Catharine 
Township, Duncansville Borough, Frankstown Township, Freedom Township, Gaysport 
Borough, Greenfield Township, Huston Township, Hollidaysburg Borough, Juniata 
Township, Martinsburg Borough, Newry Borough, North Woodbury Township, Roaring 
Spring Borough, Taylor Township, Hollidaysburg Borough, and Woodbury Township.

The names of the men who were sent from Hollidaysburg from September 7, 1917, 
until the Armistice was signed in 1918, follow: James F. Stonerook, George 
Howard Kratzer, George Grover Obernour, John Joseph Beigle, Thomas Albert 
Lindsay, Jesse Rolfe Wike, John Frederick Wolf, Eugene James McCurdy, Russell 
Henderson Webb, Boyo Antonio, Thomas Baker, Frank Pusick, Howard Brumbaugh, 
Joseph Ryan Murphy, Andrew William Mockler, Roy Bush, Vincent A. Hazenstab, Alex 
Conrod, Ellis Martin Gates, George Albert Ross, Michael Aloysius Heilmeier, 
James Frank Hardy, Edward Benjamin Nash, James Samuel Isenberg, Aden Showalter, 
Walter A. Irving, Harry Earle Myers, George

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E. Troxler, Cyril William Carl, William M. Hainsey, George W. Langham, Jim 
Steve, John Baker, James Clair Patterson, Oscar O. Hanson, William Austin 
Berkheimer, Filomeno Chiavelo, Frank Styer, Raphael Lowry Curran, Harry Reffner, 
Clinton Guy Dubbs, James Edgar Thompson, Calvin Luther Glass, Sherman Hanley, 
William Mountz White, Charles Emmet Lingenfelter, Thomas Stanley Helsel, Frank 
Lego, Wallace John White, John Martin Gildea, Clyde Floyd Dickey, Raymond Nale, 
George O. Lehman, James Ellsworth Dively, Samuel Calvin Swartz, Walter Clair 
Crownover, Joseph Donald Prahovic, James Sherman Dodson, Milton B. Hoover, Roy 
William McGinnis, Charles Lloyd Reighard, Charles Berkheimer, Frank Muccitelli, 
Claude Skinner, Cyril F. Hart, Thomas Manning Rentz, William Earl Bice, John 
Morrow Briggs, William Stephen Smith, Darwin Floyd Bardell, George Brown 
Replogle, John Mallott, Jesse Gray Treese, Edgar Malcolm Geesey, Gregario Fasio, 
Percy Elzie Crownover, Daniel Croyle Dilling, Harry Luther Felker, Frank 
Stombaugh, James Edward Helsel, George Blair Delaney, Sewell Lingenfelter, 
Thomas S. Van Dereau, John Charles Boland, Zerlo Francisco Guiseppe, Harry 
Franklin Harshburger, Harry Alfred Onkst, Homer Franklin Smith, Giovanni 
Pollito, Peter Jackamin, Omal Parks, Leo Frank Lanzendorfer, George Edgar 
Wagner, Elmer Blaine Myers, John Roskey, Earl H. Dilling, Elmer Croft, Pete 
Slezak, Benjamin Martin Nelson, Charles Ross Weyant, Lewis Susan, George W. 
Swartz, Herman E. Rhodes, Edgar Joseph Hunter, Mike Vicelia, Albert Dively, Oden 
Clair Hetrick, John Jackamin, Samuel Albert Lynn, Samuel Fluke Over, Haagen 
Corl, Joseph Burk, Leonard McCreary, Charles Frederick Mosel, Patrick Henry 
Pendleton, Gan Savaya, Charles Schwab Fluke, James William Buchanan, Frank Wood 
Suckling, Joseph H. Irvine, Homer Irwin Smith, Paul Humes Smith, Merle Calvin 
Stiffler, John Ross Smith, Joseph Thomas Shawley, Samuel James Grassmyer, George 
F. Koofer, Levi Ernest Acker, Daniel L. Metzler, Louis Clay Steel, Charles 
Josiah Burk, Arch. R. Lykens, Warren Detwiler, Benjamin Paul Hoover, Oscar 
Samels, Giuseppe Giorgianni, William Joseph O'Brien, Jacob Dively, Tony 
Ferrizzi, Alfonso Donadeo, George McClellan Aungst, C. Ray Dubbs, Austin Brady 
Bush, Warren Emerson Clapper, Homer Hart Hewitt, Joseph Friedlan Reiser, Harvey 
James Webb, G. Nevin Dively, Warren G. McCarty, Joseph Elmer Malone, Daniel 
Patrick Murphy, Elvin Barnett, Ralph Alexander Slippey, Daniel Ivan Stultz, 
James Watson Kephart, George Miles Miller, Acostina Genero, Reuben H. Myers, 
Clarence Nevin Burket, Ray Russell Miller, Mike Wapner, George Lee Kennedy, 
Alino Michelone, James Albert Stanley, William Ray Steel, Homer Grant Helsel, 
Sheldon Bertram Kauffman, Ralph Reed Riley, William Joseph Murphy, George 
Weyandt, Jesse James Croft, Alfonso Dillalogi, James Roy Taylor, Donald Gersner 
McIntyre, William Robert Kephart, William Bennett Montgomery, Lawrence Patrick 
Drass, Albert Roy Kuhn, Russell Franklin Gearhart, James Franklin Dunkle, Fred 
Johnston Wood, Clarence S. Albright, Charles Calvin Shoemaker, Joseph A. Rentz, 
Samuel Howard Shelly, John Joseph Deasy, Frank Stoner Crissman, Thomas Lloyd 
Boland, Irving Earl Metzker, John Franklin Adams, Chauncey F. Lingenfelter, John 
Melvin

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Shoemaker, James Englebert Lordeman, Albert Harrison Tipton, George Washington 
Bice, Regis Charles Rentz, Earl Edward Burk, Clinton Harrah Kegarise, Francis 
Patrick Madden, Anthony Filorimo, David H. Moyer, Tolbert Elder Lindsay, Joseph 
Stewart Shatzer, Joseph Elmer Over, George Ashel Harpster, Peter Eldon Hite, 
Knut Harold Anderson, Owen Daniel Feathers, Charles Franklin Mentzer, Mark Roush 
Felker, John Elliott Curry, Raymond Russell Weaver, Alfred Grant Brubaker, 
Foster Ralor Mort, Benjamin B. Cook, William Herbert Keim, Howard Worth Walls, 
Mearle D. Tipton, William M. Briney, Charles A. Close, Harvey C. Hoover, Howard 
Earl Yingling, Albert Robb Zimmers, Robert Sollenberger, Leslie L. Weyandt, John 
Aloysius Heininger, Lawrence E. Fisher, Verus Paul Shaw, James William Frank, 
John Vincent Conway, Vincent James Doyle, Abe Dodson, Samuel Wilson Claar, 
Roscoe Stanton Shoup, Edward J. Baroner, Francis Clare Carl, George Clarence 
McCurdy, Walter Francis Martz, Francis Patrick Gallagher, Clifford Campbell, 
William Dean McCormick, William Ross Flaugh, George Roy Weitzel, Henry Blaine 
Stephens, Jacob M. Yingling, Charles Edgar McIntosh, Jacob S. Barnhart, Harry 
Orville Mundorf, George Frederick Smouse, Clarence Edgar Dell, Samuel Diehl, 
Raymond Lawrence Gildea, Fred Yingling, Charles B. Weyant, Daniel H. Erb, Harry 
Hale Blyler, Henry A. Larson, Homer Nelson Me, John Nick Poropatic, David Steven 
Madden, Guiseppe Racconta, Clarence Grove Price, Joseph E. Miller, Michael John 
Chismar, Arthur Ferdinand Sylvester, George Lewis Frazier, Carmine DiBartolomeo, 
Bert Harrison Haman, Charles Sumner Stephens, Walter Scott Rhodes, Charles Oscar 
Garber, Edward Charles Riley, Anthony R. Wance, Russell C. Burger, Claud Edward 
Rupp, Raymond Plank Myers, Francis Ferdinand Garber, William Russell Morgan, 
Herbert Sanders Bolger, James Cleveland Helsel, Dean M. Eichholtz, Edgar Raymond 
Vipond, Walter Calvin Moore, Harry L. Gardner, Walter Seanor Gardner, Dean 
Slippey Reese, Maxwell Byron Robison, Arcangelo Morelli, George Patrick Whalen, 
Peter Paul Klein, Jacob Zayar, Wayne Knepper Isenberg, Martin A. Hart, Jr., 
James Maxwell Moore, James Lee Brannan, Charles William McPherson, Walter H. 
Slippey, Proctor Thayer Lykens, John Henry Walker, Perry Jackson Brown, Marshel 
Pattillo, Irwin Moses Brown, Paul L. Hammond, Warren Emory Miller, Frederick 
William Himmel, John Rolland Davis, Wildun Condon Delozier, Lloyd Edwin Wilt, 
James Lawrence Smith, Albert M. Strayer, Michele Demaria, Calvin Blair Goodman, 
Harry Roy Shannon, James Gorsuch, Chalmer John Shoeman, Harry George Himes, 
Henry Ross Brumbaugh, Thomas Ferdinand Doyle, David Roy Shoeman, Giovanni 
Bartochi, Clarence Gallitzin Haley, Bartilomeo Fabrizio, Leo Thomas Diehl, Elmer 
Ellsworth Croft, Edward LeRoy Kemberling, Charles Hoar Kephart, William Emory 
Berkhimer, George Albert Burgoon, Edwin Lawrence Mentzer, William E. Loose, 
Angelo Denocenzo, Albert Walter, William Berkhimer, Vincenzo Mondo, William 
James Nicodemus, Michael Cheslock, Roy James Delozier, Fred Lee Gunnett, Howard 
Joseph Curran, Orazio Dillalogi, Edward Maurice Campbell, Reese M. Rhodes, 
Edward Musselman, Frank Shingler, William Harrison Kunsman, Paul Saya, Wesley 
Weyant, David Ross Reighard, Bernard Lancelot Brumbaugh,

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Domenico Magazie, Isaac L. Snyder, Orville Isenberg, Lee Smith, George 
Steinbrunner, Cloyd Stanley Croft, Dean Bancroft Shaw, James Herbert Michaels, 
Herman Adolph Mengelbaurer, Levi Holmes, George Grant Forney, Lloyd Franklin 
Davis, George Glenn Zeilinger, James Edward Johnson, Elmer Lee Burket, Calvin 
Wesley Clapper, Orville Sparr, Albert Raymond Wyerman, Raymond Aloysius Beach, 
Lawrence William Frank, Blair Lewis McKillip, Ivan Edison Hayes, William A. 
Mountz, Calvin Hayes Noel, Paul R. Curran, Roy George Merritts, Guiseppe Mondo, 
John Irwin Ickes, Levi Oder Burket, William Henry Burket, Clarence Tipton, 
Wilfred Steward Ritchey, Andrew Schell, James Martin Beal, John George 
Lingenfelter, David Emmert Brumbaugh, Levi Courtney Bolger, J. Irvin Dively, Lee 
Sanford Kelly, Joseph Milton Cochran, Hugh Robert Riley, Joseph Oliver Stiffler, 
Roy Hazel Lauffer, John E. Leslie, Dean William Hileman, Franklin P. Keller, 
Charles E. Heimbaugh, Albert Mathias Quarry, Lloyd Holland, John Ellsworth 
Kephart, Steward E. Allison, Joseph Reed Gilliland, Harry Edward Bowser, Chester 
Hoover, James LeRoy Clapper, Harry T. Kensinger, Howard A. Brumbaugh, Rocco 
Polito, Cletus Henry Olt, Frank H. Glass, Wallace Irvin Knode, John William 
Smith, Alva Roy Long, Alvin B. Sollenberger, Ralph A. Miller, Jesse Homer 
Wysong, Emory Watson Burket, Vito Criscione, Malcolm David Ritchey, Arthur F. 
Hoover, Levi Harrison Smelser, Carl C. Bossler, Elvin H. Replogle, Frank G. 
Roseberry, Irvin J. Keith, Benjamin F. Fisher, Harry Joseph Boland, John Eldon 
Maddocks, Harry Francis Schilling, William Edmonson Kirk, John Wesley Trosley, 
William Roy Fry, Joseph Medil, George William Verbonitz, George Gorman, Earl E. 
Ross, Edwin Curtin Butler, Battista Frediga, Charles Aaron Diehl, Thomas Park 
Allison, Charles Murphy, John Eugene Barr, Oscar William Bridenbaugh, Edward 
Plowman, Charles Irwin Cox, George Leo Smith, Ralph E. Ickes, Richard Hoover, 
Edward James Kunsman, Millard Bentley Formhals, John Earl Hoenstine, Frank 
Nelson Boone, Robert Alexander Moeller, Carl Preston Grove, Harry Clair 
Bouslough, Irvin Baker, Henry Moss, John Alfred Musser, Ivan Edison Garver, John 
Edward Perry, Harry H. Salyards, James Bernard Fogel, Reuben McKinley Snare, 
William Henry Burch, Hobart Harry Longenecker, Robert Riley, John Henry Mauk, 
Victor John Krider, Abraham Daniel Bailey, Ray Morrison Piper, Charles Raymond 
Schock, Roy Robert Yingling, Christopher Joseph Frank, William Mock, John 
Cramer, Earl Dandois Replogle, LeRoy Chamberlain, Raymond Joseph Diamond, Paul 
Elwood Henderson, Charles Rufus Lindsay, Howard Chester Allender, Frank Wilbur 
Royer, Clarence Edward Eckard, Jacob Roy Creamer, Krider Reed Bice, Michael 
David Doyle, William Martin Lantz, Charles Kemberling Jones, Thomas Ferdinand 
Heilmeier, Charles Lorain Berkheimer, Karl William Hancuff, William Diehl, 
Wilson Reese Wertz, Arthur Hartzel Mundorf, Clarence Thompson, Roscoe Conkling 
McGray, John H. Robertson, Edwin John Eberly, Charles Edward Rhodes, Oliver 
Aaron Mosel, John Marshal Moore, Harry Abraham Bougher, Samuel Barnes, Myrel 
Hilarium Gildea, Edgar Dean Yingling, Roy Irwin Yeckley, James Howard Walter, 
John Alexander MacDonald, Gary Davis Weyandt, John Cornelius Hannigan, David 
Blair Grove,

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Harmon Daniel Malone, Henry Stanley Lingenfelter, Orville McKinley Wilt, Charles 
Raphael Curran, Roy Samuel Black, Jesse Marvin Griffith, Marvin Charles Kelly, 
William Joseph McDonnell, William McKinley Fowkes, Harry Waldo Berkheimer, 
Edward James Irwin, William Charles Albright, Edward John Schaffer, Melvin 
McKinley Hoover, Herman Joseph Frank, Roy Irwin Feather, LeRoy Stotler, William 
Luther Mock, Harry Leannell Ringler, John Earl McCoy, Herman Guyer Koontz, James 
Earl Lloyd, Clarence Hengst, William McIntosh Corbin, Allen L. Smith, W. B. 
Duganne, William Lewis Duncan, Wilbur Dean Leighty, King Thomas Rhodes, William 
Joseph Fleming, Darwin Ploy Bardell, John Henry Wiseman, William Clyde Replogle, 
Newton Jasper Dixon, Edward Albert Biddle, Taylor L. Dively, Harry Elmer 
Larkins, Raymond Clyde Sorrick, Ceno Carlo, Frank Brenner Pressler, James 
Henderson Deyarmin, Frank Carl Cunningham, William Francis Reynolds, Andrew 
Henry Schroeder, Samuel C. Weyandt, Clarence Raymond Slippey, John Sylvester 
Young, Harvey Milton Liebegott, Harry E. Demple, Harry Harrison Koch, William 
Gilbert McCreary, George Eugene Klein, Ferd Richard Bender, Forest Joseph Wilt, 
Aden Fay Fink, Gennaro DeLuzio, Roy Harrison Aurandt, William McKinley Strayer, 
Mike Delich, Francis Joseph Murray, Edward Wilhelm Keiser, Robert Scott Lindsay, 
Chester Roy Deyarmin, Allen Helsel, Pasquale Ferrante, Charles James Vaughn, 
James Oliver Westover, Irvin Roy Weyandt, James Roy Cox, John Albert Knee, Jr., 
Frank Calvin Smith, James William Hammel, Alvin Frederick Oster, Lester David 
Dick, Thomas Regis Webb, Ralph Myrle Ferguson, Otis Pheasant, Albert Weyandt, 
Thaddeus Feathers, Arthur Banks McManamy, William Edwin Moyer, Park DeWitt 
Ferry, Lyman Reffner, Paul Eugene Stiffler, Roy Sylvester Blackstone, Robert Roy 
Hainsey, Harvey Winfield Seymour, Charles Frederick Mosel, William Berkhimer, 
Hugh Edgar Earnest, Nathaniel Merrick, Eli Graham, Dossos Foster, Raymond Kaust 
Smith, John Stoner Lotz, Chalmer David Rice, Ross William Shaw, Ralph Gorsuch, 
Roy Hazel Lauffer, Millard Bentley Formhals, Clamour Calvin Beegle, Harry Lee 
Ormsby, Henry Clayton Barr, Charles Darwin Shriner, Chester Arthur Lingenfelter, 
Harry Clay Crist, Freeman Lester Coppersmith, James L. Reilly, Andrew E. 
Freidenbloom, Benjamin F. Creamer, Nelson Ceibert Parks, Ralph Wade Tate, 
Torrance A. Long, Anthony Figurelli, Donald Grant Lingenfelter, Harry 
Berkheimer, Blain Watson Lininger, Norman William Brown, George Harold Morgart, 
Sherwood Merrill Adams, William Crawford Morrow, Paul A. VanAllman, Frank Henry 
Rhodes, George Hatch, Ralph D. Skutchall, Albert Robert Zimmers, John Wilmer F. 
Harter, Daniel Raymond Mock, Charles Hale Marks, Joseph Sim Hammond, Clair 
Walter Curtis, Gemmill Cluggage Davis, Ralph Lamont Soyster, Jesse Lee 
Shoenfelt, Norman Don Wilt, Edwin Thomas Showalter, Matthew Simpson Hunter, 
Elvin Harold Liebegott, John Martin Brumbaugh, Andrew Long Rooney, John Hughes, 
John Calvin Fluke, Steele Blair Koch, Chalmer Eugene Shade, Willard Stadden 
Williams, Edwin John McGill, Charles Earl Herron, Frank Mickel Braddock, John 
Edwin Curfman, Samuel Paul Snyder, James Guido Hancuff, Jay Merrill Greaser, 
John Franklin McDermitt,

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William Francis Curran, Arthur Clyde Kinkead, Robert Burns Winslow, Wallace 
Potter Hartigan, Ambrose Lear Carberry, Joseph E. Miller, Charles Hillary 
Reilly, James Blaine Mauk, Edgar Frank Kurtz, Fay Crawford Elliott, Elliott 
Clyde Johnston, Leland Elwood Holland, Ernest Randolph Pressler, Harry Martin 
McCall, William R. Eastep, John Adam Schmidt, David Calvin Helsel, William 
Harold Wyerman, Harry Shaffer Albright, John Robert Hunter, Jr., Emory Miller 
Diehl, Harry Mac Soyster, Collins Martin Reffner, John Brua Elliott, Chalmers 
Franklin Gordon, Vito Polce, Robert W. Mutzabaugh, Merrel J. Stonebrook, Charles 
Francis Hite, Kenneth Claude Burket, Harry Philip Brunner, Howard Franklin Hair, 
Walter E. Hess, Bert Oliver Vipond, and Dewey Sigsbee Hayes.

Local Board, No. 2, for Blair County had jurisdiction over the following 
townships and boroughs: Antis Township, Bellwood Borough, Juniata Borough, Logan 
Township, Snyder Township, and Tyrone Borough. There were 778 men inducted into 
the service of the United States from this board. Of that number, 8i were 
rejected and returned from the camps, while 697 were accepted. They went to 
Camps Lee, Meade, Sevier, Dix, Devens, Joseph E. Johnston, Pike, Upton, Forest, 
Wheeler, Custer, Wadsworth, Greenleaf, Colt, Sherman, Greene, Vail, and Gordon; 
and to Forts Leavenworth, Oglethorpe, Slocum, Myer, Thomas, and Benjamin 
Harrison; Kelley Field, Watertown Arsenal, Vancouver Barracks, Columbus 
Barracks, Washington, D. C.; Frankport, Arizona; Laurel, Maryland; Raleigh, 
North Carolina; Syracuse, New York; Polish, National Allegiance Headquarters; 
and to colleges and universities throughout Pennsylvania and neighboring states, 
where they entered the S. A. T. C. units.

The names of the men who were sent by the Tyrone Board follow: John G. Floresta, 
Henry H. Starattiff, Anthony L. Cook, James C. McConahy, Wilbur C. White, Paul 
T. Winter, Rudolph E. Rheinschmidt, Christian Schoellkopf, James A. Confer, 
Chalmers W. Gates, Benjamin A. Stevens, Fred Hull, Frank G. Garlock, Frank 
Peckovi, Lewis Gunsaulis, Richard Fisher, Harry H. Lerch, Ralph B. Piper, Horace 
L. Frantz, Lester R. Herman, Joseph W. McNeal, Chester E. Miller, Francis E. 
Renand, Samuel B. Hewitt, Charles S. Decker, Lewis Quaccia, Charles Hanna, 
Leonard H. McGee, Harvey E. Myers, Glenn H. Norman, John A. Baker, Leroy E. 
Mower, William Switzer, Earnest R. Otto, Samuel M. Figart, Andrew B. Ritter, 
George Butterbaugh, Max Furrier, Evan R. Rosevear, Charles H. Ross, Chester C. 
Calderwood, John A. Colbert, Frank McFalls, Martin L. Perkins, Charles T. Rush, 
Orlando M. Piper, Harry B. Kerlin, Albert J. Friday, Edward Swisher, James H. 
Waring, Robert I. Sellers, Elmer Cover, Herman B. Price, Leroy F. McMullen, 
Abraham Epstein, Winfield Eger, James H. Reeder, Frank B. Norton, William P. 
Arnold, McDonald B. Bressler, William H. Carles, Clair G. Boyles, Jonathan M. 
Yingling, Clarence Clouser, Arthur L. Lewis, Edward Johnsonbaugh, Millard F. 
Stull, William J. Clouser, William Stacy, John E. Shoenfelt, Albert Worndahl, 
Charles E. Henry, William H. Gunter, Frank S. Detwiler, Orlando H. Diggens, 
Ellis G. Frye, George W. Green, Reuben E. Lewis, Giovanni Delucce, Richard I. 
Moore, James

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B. Long, Robert L. Anderson, Arthur S. Consel, Albert A. Greiner, Frank A. 
Lunghofer, Charles E. Price, Boyd Vanscoyoc, Thomas S. Closson, Earle R. Smouse, 
Leroy E. Osman, Gottlieb Wesner, James J. Hoff, Harry L. Gohn, Louis Savino, 
Wilbur L. James, Linus Gill, David L. Hughes, Jr., Charles Yost, John M. Zeak, 
Bernard F. O'Conner, J. W. Skagerberg, George E. Delozier, Joseph W. Hand, 
William Bell, Salvatore Cannistraci, Benjamin B. Galbraith, Calvin E. Green, 
Charles L. Singer, George W. Port, Jr., James Andrew Nau, Allen D. McCartney, 
Ralph E. Rice, John E. Keith, Thomas Fleck, Harry W. Moore, Charles Keith, John 
G. Gibboney, Steve Kralk, Jacob Spotts, Harry G. Morrell, Stewart Shea, Charles 
R. Mingle, Jacob G. McMullen, Raymond McA. Strunk, Roy A. Dickens, Harry R. 
Gwinn, Leonard L. Fouse, Elwood G. Peters, Paul H. Miller, Raymond H. Seldere, 
Jesse Cameron, Lester D. Blair, Philip L. Elder, Calvin Snowberger, Russell C. 
Merryman, William Tanneyhill, Jr., Benjamin F. Kline, Joseph McAvoy, Jay M. 
Stevens, Clayton B. Kline, Harry A. Steindel, Charles R. Nearhoof, William R. 
Davis, William W. White, Walter Johnson, Arthur E. Jones, Eddie Anthony, Dave 
Roberts, John Harry Spriggs, Francis Prilu, Harry T. Spriggs, Herbert A. 
Spriggs, Preston G. Plowden, Walter Williams, Robert Hickson, Jesse Foster, John 
C. Smith, Willie Andrews, Edward Sweeney, George Haines, Karl N. Davis, Doran J. 
Hower, Senator Green, Oscar

C. Henderson, Thomas E. Houston, John J. Haberstroh, Frank J. Arnold, Arthur J. 
Kane, Hamon Mummey, Allen Bell, William E. Hoffman, George D. Sprankle, Charles 
Williams, Theodore W. Fettinger, Frank A. Schoch, James C. Keatley, Charles B. 
Harris, Raymond L. Gardner, Clarence J. Burnes, Lee L. Long, Walter Carl Bice, 
William P. Shaefer, Millard C. Chestney, Fred McG. Davis, Gordon Brown, Bruce R. 
Hetrick, Abram Irvin, Oscar F. Hammond, Oram C. Riley, Lawrence L. Lewis, David 
J. Evans, Harry C. Albright, Foster R. Reader, Earnest Skipper, Roy E. Burns, 
Francis P. McGovern, William R. Fouse, Fred F. Irwin, Clarence E. Wogan, John A. 
Hiller, Walter C. Miller, Charles C. Shaefer, Paul M. Keinzle, John N. Hampton, 
Bernard H. Kuhn, John W. Mulholland, Hazle F. Cherry, Daniel Long, William P. 
Bennett, Harvey B. Estep, Harry H. Calderwood, Joseph L. Markey, Roy A. Slippey, 
Marion G. Evans, William T. Evans, Henry F. Buck, Harry E. Waite, Ralph M. 
Dysart, James C. Sitman, Earl R. Whitaker, John H. Cunningham, John M. Moser, 
Fred Benz, William T. Johnson, Carey H. Russell, John T. Wesley, James Henry 
Wertz, Luigi Villano, Milton B. Gardner, Charles A. Brumbaugh, John W. 
Mulhollen, John A. Mingle, Charles R. McDowell, John F. Andrews, Theo. L. 
Thompson, Harry F. Langham, William E. Davis, Charles W. Fonner, Robert E. 
Biddle, Frederick J. Aichelman, Lui Fatula, Thomas B. Truman, Archie Sharrow, 
John E. Royer, Robert W. Flenner, James M. MacIntyre, Albert L. Flenner, Omer S. 
Heberling, Francis H. Hagg, Charles A. McKee, Charles L. McGlinsey, Lester R. 
Snyder, Roy M. Ehrisman, Earl Daugherty, Everett P. Isenberg, Hamer H. Lewis, 
George Estep, Edward M. Kusterborder, George Thomas Ritz, Guiseppi Vallani, 
Thomas P. Dougherty, Joseph F. Carney, James F. Kelley, Alfonso J. Buchele, 
Joseph P. Rouser, Paul H. Ribblet, Frank H. Miller, Richard 

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Y. Colclesser, William M. Ermine, Elmer C. Moyer, Clayton Ebersole, Michael A. 
Deihl, Donald R. Smith, George MacIntyre, William O. Russell, Carl O. Williams, 
James H. Cassiday, William Vetter, Steward A. McDowell, Henry R. Hewitt, Clair 
H. Oshell, Paul E. Rouzer, David M. Edmiston, Robert A. Everts, William R. 
Sanderson, Benjamin F. McCracken, William E. Gray, Adolphus W. Hayes, Frank N. 
Moser, Roy I. McGill, Elwood C. Miller, Merl A. Huey, Edward Walker, John R. 
Fetter, Frank O. Miller, Charles R. Hoff, Bert H. Boyles, Thomas W. Hirshbiel, 
James W. Plummer, Ernest E. Long, Jared Sharp, Charles E. Cashman, Alfred M. 
Confer, Alfred Snoberger, Canzie Padula, Frank R. Linsay, Ira F. LaPorte, Truman 
Grubs, Michael Hanley, David H. McGary, Francesco Dalione, George H. Rudolph, 
Jos. E. Morrison, Harry L. Otto, George W. Hunter, Chester A. Merritts, Walter 
C. Smith, Julias A. Rhaesa, Leonard M. Wissinger, Richard C. Startiff, Russell 
R. Perry, Lawrence W. Brannon, Raymond Edane, Matteo Ciavello, Norris Q. Lauver, 
William F. Heberling, Claire F. Baker, Paul A. Lenker, Earl R. Gearhart, Allan 
S. Myers, John T. Sovenske, Russell Shay, Roy J. Landis, George A. Heim, Harold 
Crommesser, Edwin Violet, Antonio Supino, Herbert Reed, Guiseppe Vitale, William 
Thomas, Perfisco Dominico, Neal C. Hanks, Harry N. Oakwood, James A. Howell, 
William A. Dunn, William Stoner, Paul Dolan, Howard Fleck, James Sunprosa, Sam 
Kasem, James O. Kennedy, William Kitts, Philip G. Apple, Hymen H. Ephstein, 
Luigi Ardozza, James Celmo, Alburtice L. Skipper, Ray Fagley, Antonio Lombardo, 
Antonio Ressi, Orris M. Sprakle, Ray H. Troxell, Joseph W. Hamer, George S. 
Rath, Herbert L. Weidley, Edward S. Scheeler, Raymond H. Kephart, Richard 
McCann, Roy R. Hendry, Lowery A. Grabill, Robert M. Rothrock, William Runyan, 
William C. Rutherford, Edward R. Musser, Jr., Cosalaquido Fransci, William 
Jordan Temple, Sylvester W. Riley, Edward B. Otto, Henry H. Bare, Levi S. 
Burket, William H. Alwine, Roy E. Hoover, John R. Holder, Sydney C. Bonsell, 
Adam Schomer, George Stevens, William R. Locke, Michael G. Simprosa, Raymond R. 
Wallace, Charles E. Myers, William E. Logan, Joseph Wachter, John G. Robison, 
John R. Reader, Merrill W. Horner, Iver S. Walton, Charles J. Fisher, Myrl F. 
Poorman, William M. Gates, Jos. DellaPorta, Frank A. Rumbarger, Lawrence E. 
Fink, John L. Galbraith, Herman B. Isenberg, Clyde J. Rogers, Walter C. Ross, 
Roy Hammer, Charles W. Biling, Robert E. Parker, Charles H. Griffith, Ira A. 
Riechey, George C. Pelter, John M. Keinzle, John E. Beard, Thomas G. Peoples, 
William F. Benz, William M. Aichelmann, George S. Berry, Willard E. Gilmore, 
Walter Smith, Martin H. Garland, Milton Reicher, Clark C. Ginter, Fred A. 
Puderbaugh, Samuel A. Bressler, Virgil C. LaPorte, John B. Keatley, Willis R. 
Irvin, Daniel H. Wesner, James Clair Dixon, Roy P. Mosel, Spencer W. Jewitt, 
Alfred E. Palomba, Albert L. Wiley, Walter M. Miller, Robert A. Oswald, Walter 
F. Green, Paul C. Ermine, John A. Shoop, Clarence J. Garrity, Charles Love, Budd 
H. Faust, Charles Schwarz, James French, Chester T. Ross, Ralph H. Hamilton, 
Charles W. Hoover, John W. Ross, Harry H. Lykens, Ira D. Confer, John Angermier, 
Charles A. Garber, Robert R. Smith, William H. Umholtz, James H.

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Ross, James J. Flanagan, Frank M. Rhodes, Percy L. Williams, William A. 
Davidson, John W. Denisar, George W. Evans, Raymond B. McCoy, John K. 
Livingston, William T. McDonald, Joseph F. Deihl, Arthur R. Rutledge, George H. 
Murtiff, Simeon H. Glasco, Frank Rusterholz, Robert E. Gutschall, William H. 
Young, David L. Bartlebaugh, Ciambotti Carlo, David M. Langham, Walter Hardy, 
Abe Solomon, Robert N. McNeal, Warren A. Burns, Edgar G. Detwiler, Joseph M. 
Smith, Howard G. Helley, Robert E. Wilson, David B. Rampling, Fred B. Burns, 
William Morgan, Homer A. Ale, Ralph M. Haupt, Harry T. Byrne, Ralph P. Noel, 
Benjamin H. Dollinger, Wilbur John Decker, Porte Riley, Charles W. Vanscoyoc, 
Zachery D. Golub, William C. Hamel, Phillip Patrick, Stephen C. Cooper, Albert 
Tartaglione, Albert J. Decker, William B. Miller, Herbert S. Isenberg, Robert 
Daley, Franklin E. Thompson, Wilbur C. Getz, Raymond Wyland, Charles A. Preston, 
Robert L. Ammerman, Harry T. Eckert, Jonah C. Walk, Henry O. Bonsell, Albert C. 
Kieferle, Wesley C. Saterfield, Charles W. Klee, Ralph E. Antis, Avery M. Irvin, 
James W. Downes, George D. Gorsuch, Frank F. Light, Phillip E. Mann, Blair A. 
Davison, John B. Cox, Herman Wertz, Charles M. White, James E. Gates, James 
Carrig, Wm. C. Osterle, Elmer R. Yohn, Ralph C. Plunket, Benj. W. Richardson, 
Philip E. Reilly, Antonio Leo, Wm. H. Neff, Clarence E. Johnson, James L. Reed, 
Wm. L. Mull, Marvin D. Bookhammer, Wilbur L. Irvin, Dorris W. Harris, Lawrence 
L. Grazier, Wm. B. Resides, Raymond J. Miller, Frank Zachesky, Alexander Bryant, 
Cuthbert Mathers, Lee E. Wertz, Wm. F. McGovern, Andrew Leogin, Frank Kephart, 
Charles White, Albert M. Slaughters, George Wooderd, Hampton Newman, Frank F. 
Taylor, Johnny Jones, George Ambrose, Robert B. Cowen, Fred G. Kish, Jesse F. 
Stillwell, Harry R. Lykens, George W. Evans, Wilbur J. Decker, Donald M. 
Gilmore, George D. Grazier, James E. Wills, Blair W. Dunn, Merrill M. Doran, 
August I. Schillig, Franklin L. McCanns, S. V. Wiley, Carl E. Saylor, Joseph W. 
Guida, James A. Moser, Forrest A. Wilt, William J. Elder, Walter M. Miller, 
Egbert Bendoza, William R. Halfpenny, John M. Amigh, William M. Goheen, Eugene 
E. Dayton, William W. Roland, George T. McClellan, Sylvester C. Martz, Jr., 
Jacob E. Ayle, Charles E. Walton, Hubert L. Koehane, Warren Getz, James E. Grey, 
Carl E. Batts, George W. Kahler, Clifford E. Clapper, William P. Bush, Francis 
A. Neff, William C. Ross, Leroy V. Haupt, Harry Myers, George W. Wertz, Clarence 
S. Burns, Gussie T. Carling, Charles F. Blair, Russell Sage McConahy, William F. 
Sawyer, James R. Lupfer, George Henry, Paul E. Hand, Joseph E. Biddle, Michael 
J. Lutz, Chester B. Hammers, Guy K. Jones, Frank A. McKinney, Paul W. Everhart, 
Cloyd C. Everhart, Wallace Q. Blatt, John D. Resig, Charles E. Updyke, Howard L. 
Brua, Zachariah Sprankle, Charles E. Sharp, John P. Neff, Charles R. Grant, 
Thomas E. Rooney, Jr., Russell C. Shaw, Charles J. Yohn, Antonio Morrelle, 
Charles F. Gonter, William A. Oswald, George Bierly, Frank J. Filer, Samuel L. 
Grimes, Conrad Schuster, John S. Homer, Joseph J. Hewel, Charles M. Harpster, 
Lewis R. McManamy, Henry S. Barto, Edgar McK. Bloom, Ernest Sweitzer, Roy M. 
Hampton, Roy K. Shellenberger, Mathew H. Cramer, Hobart McK. Vipond,

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Thomas V. Keohane, Henry J. Detemple, Elmer H. Bookhamer, James W. Woomer, Leo 
J. Buechele, Clarence W. Forsht, Calvin Glass Helley, Frederick A. Irwin, 
Clarence R. Singer, Charles W. Lilly, Paul S. Lehner, Arthur S. Flenner, John S. 
McKinney, Nicholas W. Hubert, Norman D. Heberling, Alvin D. Strobaugh, Harry V. 
Brumbaugh, William McK. Brown, Harry Endress, Leo A. Wilt, Paul Gillam, Frank J. 
Gunsallus, John W. College, Charles W. Kustoborder, Charles McK. McCartney, 
Stephen J. Kirsch, Ivan Minaris, Jr., Howard M. Stone, Charles D. Robison, 
Charles M. Hornberger, Thomas S. Filer, Vernon A. Sponsler, Charles H. 
McMasters, Herbert A. McKelvey, Charles M. Delozier, Harry N. Glass, Paul R. 
Walk, Thomas E. Smith, William E. Hoffman, Frank W. Fisher, Julius W. Heim, 
David McK. Langham, Clarence J. Burns, Abe Solomon, Eugenio A. DiStefano, Lester 
A. Gebhart, Clifford J. Bratton, Cloyd S. Shamp, Barnard F. Irvin, James R. 
Taylor, Joseph Frischkorn, Mahlon C. Port, George Mosely, Paul E. Hoffman, Harry 
L. Locke, Joseph N. Hedding, Samuel Orris, George E. Bland, George E. 
Schweitzer, Jesse L. Waite, Robert V. Hoy, Jr., Park L. Ray, Byron H. Hoy, 
Frederick M. Waring, Herman F. Walton, James I. Ross, Fred A. Cleeland, George 
Klellaman, Samuel W. Russell, Charles B. Gearhart, Milton V. Cherry, Paul F. 
Stephens, Lawrence F. Haupt, Ambrose R. Haberstroh, Ambrose G. LaPorte, Thomas 
D. Williams, Jr., George H. Moore, Harry A. Huntsman, Roy W. Wolfgang, Richard 
K. Lukenbach, Harry T. Smith, Gilbert T. Reed, Harry W. Kochenderfer, Harry P. 
Nelson, Thomas E. Bierly, Harry I. Emery, Denton M. Albright, Frank K. 
Troutwine, Ralph J. Stevens, Randall B. Luke, Howard B. Calderwood, Daniel B. 
Kloss, George R. Meyers, Alexander C. Gwin, Cornelius C. Beck, Richard K. 
Hutchison, Roy W. Goshorn, Daniel E. Sheehan, Thomas M. Williams, Charles N. 
Cohn, Jerome J. Sheehan, John E. Shannon, Jr., Samuel M. Simonton, Frank L. 
Matthews, Richard H. Haagen, William H. Phillips, Marshall E. Lenning, Roy B. 
Stine, Donald C. Miller, Paul B. Garland, Charles A. Elder, Arlie L. Hamer, 
Harold E. Beringer, John H. Kurts, Harvey Lambert, Millard R. Stonebraker, Lewis 
A. Schlehr, Harold E. Moffitt, Paul D. Thomas, William R. Brewer, Carl F. 
Miller, Frederick W. Sunderman, John G. Stewart, Virgil L. Crawford, Larue 
Braucher, Paul F. McCoy, Silas Curry, Alfred E. Dingeldein, Donovan R. Cook, 
James C. Trimble, Richard Ray, Yozo Kokan, Mack King, James L. Bannon, Chester 
L. Reeder, Josiah Markley, and John Rushehe.

The city of Altoona had two conscription boards to draft the men into the 
service. The personnel of Local Board for Division, No. i, follows: Mayor 
Charles E. Rhodes, chairman; J. Virgil Taylor, secretary; Dr. A. S. Kech, 
medical examiner and member of the board; Miss Katherine Goetz, chief clerk; T. 
J. Lucas, chief clerk; C. H. A. Koons, clerk; Dr. L. E. McKee, extra examining 
physician; Thomas C. Hare, government appeal agent; Thomas H. Greevy, chairman, 
legal advisory board; Dr. O. H. Shaffer, chairman, medical advisory board; John 
F. Sullivan, industrial claim agent; Col. W. B. Allen, chairman, board of 
instruction; Irma Butler, Edna Holland, Kathleen Bertram, W. S. Taylor, S. 
Grossman, A. L. Kitchen, clerks; and John Halley, soldier clerk.

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R. F. Bankert was chairman for the Local Board, Division No. 2. The other 
officers were: F. A. Bell, secretary; J. D. Findley, M.D., physician, and member 
of the board; P. F. Pershing, M.D., and Charles F. McBurney, M.D., additional 
examining physicians; J. D. Hicks, government appeal agent; H. A. Davis, Isaiah 
Scheeline and R. A. Henderson, legal advisory board; E. P. McCabe, chief clerk; 
W. I. Sickles, W. H. Hannum, G. T. Heckman, W. C. Stultz, O. C. Wood, C. R. 
Carroll, C. W. Goodman, C. E. Jefferies, L. C. Simpson, D. E. Finegan, Romans 
Stultz, William Bigham, A. L. Lykens, G. L. Freet, A. H. Anderson and Miss 
Jennie Danemark, clerks; and Charles L. Sherer, inducted clerk.

Local Board, No. 1, for the city of Altoona had jurisdiction over the following 
city wards: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, I I, and 12. From this division, 641 men were 
inducted into the service, of whom 50 were rejected and 591 accepted. The Board 
sent men to the following camps, arsenals, barracks, colleges and other posts: 
Camps Lee, Dix, Greene, Meade; Watertown Arsenal; Syracuse, Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, Camp Colt, Vancouver Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kelly Field, Columbus 
Barracks, Laurel, Fort Johnston, State College, Frankford Arsenal, Washington 
Barracks, Fort Myer, Camp Upton, Fort Sherman, Fort Thomas, Camp Wadsworth, 
Crane, Rochester, College Park, University of Pittsburgh, College Station, Fort 
Oglethorpe, Fort Custer, Fort Wayne, Fort Gordon, Fort Humphreys, New York, 
Delaware College, Newark, Guetes, Fort Jay, Lehigh University, Spring Garden 
Institute, Erie School Board, Lafayette College, Fort Jackson, Camp Taylor, Camp 
Greenleaf, St. Mary's, Fort Monroe, Ashland, Philadelphia (navy mobilization), 
Bethany College, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Indiana State Normal School, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Howard University, 
Davis and Elkins College, Millersville State Normal School, University of 
Pennsylvania, Franklin and Marshall College, Vail, Pennsylvania College 
(Gettysburg), Hampton Institute and Princeton University. Some of the men who 
were sent to these points were rejected after undergoing physical examinations 
upon their arrival at the specified posts. They were all inducted into the 
service before leaving the jurisdiction of the local board however, so that they 
can be considered as having been in the service. The men sent from Local Board, 
No. 1, Altoona, were as follows: Herbert W. Kelly, William McK. Dearment, George 
F. Burke, Joseph P. Raible, Luvey J. Herring, James H. Ritter, Philip Mazza, 
Wactac Krinzielski, Roy G. Bendheim, John C. Miller, Daniel C. Hammond, Herman 
L. Resig, John A. Young, Raymond R. Adams, Charles B. Campbell, Rasheed S. 
Jakour, Donald S. Miller, George E. Ehredt, Arthur A. Knauer, Walter J. 
Sponeybarger, Donald J. Howard, Gerald J. McGarry, Charles 0. McConnell, Mac R. 
Saylor, Joseph M. Williams, Thomas F. Tobin, Morris Wayne, John A. Woolis, 
Clement J. Sanders, Otto Romagna, George W. Bunn, Edgar F. Miller, Chester L. 
Tharpe, William S. McConnell, John M. Sisk, Walter E. Ball, William E. Noll, 
Ralph T. Beezer, Patrick J. Donnelly, William T. Haverty, John S. Waite, Robert 
S. Wagner, William G. Fluke, Dennis M. Conlin, Frank R. Brinser, William F. 
Wilkins, Frank Brousseau, Harry J. Taylor, John W. Burkholder, Edwin J. Bower, 
Joseph Settle, Franklin M. Richard, Joseph A.

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Brown, James A. Spencer, Francis H. Wittbaugh, Harry E. Mitchell, Levi H. Krebs, 
Charles L. Arble, Joseph Skupieu, Harry J. Felton, Ralph W. Stouch, Earl W. 
Norton, Francis B. Hoffman, Dallas P. Nail, David M. Williams, John
F. Vaughn, Lynn K. Fasnacht, Wilbur Cuff, Joseph W. Burchhill, William E. 
Mitchell, Samuel W. Hileman, William Weible, Dominico Terainano, Paul H. 
Yarnall, Carey A. Beck, John Cording, Clifford R. Hersch, Elmer H. Boring, 
William M. Wilson, James B. Allen, Lewis H. Renaud, Luther K. Lotz, Edgar J. 
Sunderland, Ernest W. Kreps, James H. Young, Thomas E. Weamer, Robert B. Wolfe, 
Ralph Herr, Harry Thomas, James C. Slack, Roy H. Wagner, James 1. White, David 
J. Magdovitz, Michael A. Clark, John S. Kiesel, Arcanangela Antico, William A. 
Baker, Clarence A. Shiro, Lewis A. Brumbaugh, George E. Tharp, Arnold F. Ryan, 
Jerry Donnelly, Charles J. Newcomer, James F. Moore, George W. Reed, Austin R. 
Bell, John G. Fultz, Moses S. Grossman, Joseph G. Wise, Paul W. Landers, Edgar 
D. Lafferty, Arthur P. Williams, Philip Papadopulo, Chester E. Dunlap, John A. 
Mathews, John G. Weidmann, Park W. Steininger, Merle C. Runyon, William S. 
Sausser, Maurice G. Weisel, Andrew L. Stanley, Zerbe Ivory, Charles H. Hammond, 
Clifford L. Beck, Raymond Herbert, Chester T. McCartney; Walter J. Fay, Harman 
H. Burke, John E. Oswald, Carl A. Daus, Thomas McNamara, Edward E. Stouch, Jacob 
Parish, Walter H. Snyder, Henry H. Pensyl, Abraham Kutner, Angelos Sampson, 
Alvin G. Thompson, John Henshey, Reuben Shab, Dewitt P. Murray, Chester W. 
Orner, Jesse F. Wicker, Walter F. Whitaker, Thomas Henderson, Samuel T. Harper, 
George O. Boatman, Granville L. Brown, Roy A. Swope, Ira J. Parsons, Reamer E. 
Price, Charles S. Griffith, George C. Zimmers, David M. Figart, Herman D. Boldt, 
Raymond V. Kearns, Stanislaus F. Sharko, Samuel Bradensky, Edward Leary, William 
L. R. Tressler, Emory J. Ritchey, Cletus J. Conlon, Leo P. McDonald, Carr A. 
Raison, Edmund L. Zeek, William K. Karides, Ralph A. Stalb, Edward W. Schettig, 
Earnest F. Harry, Lovell A. Malone, Harry J. Parker, Gustave A. Johnson, Amos P. 
Huber, James Pinnen, Harry B. Tinges, Andrew Kelly, Charles A. Pratt, Richard T. 
Singleton, Leon E. Lake, Harry N. Stiffler, Philip Krouse, Leonard Mottram, John 
B. McCullough, Clarence R. Stone, Frank S. Simpson, Charles A. Stewart, Samuel 
C. Hall, Fred S. Rosengrant, Clarence A. Forney, Carniunantoria Russo, Charles 
Boldt, William H. Strohmyer, Charles W. Bothwell, Arthur P. Wood, Edward J. 
Donnelly, Lewis G. Roberts, William H. Conley, Earnest B. Adams, Charles S. 
Shelow, James L. Rupert, Clair R. Wolf, William R. Charles, Charles T. Rudasill, 
Ralph A. Mullen, Raymond Kimlin, Wilson S. Greiner, Bernard L. Weisel, James C. 
Cassidy, Kenne Stewart, John D. Price, Harper A. Price, Ralph E. Swartz, Harry 
F. Hetrick, Robert J. Flanagan, William H. Brown, Samuel Gindes, Fred S. 
Cornelius, Walter J Sutton, Frank A. Lind, Eugene C. Behm, Charles R. Gross, 
Frederick Harrison, Patrick J. Donnelly, Nathan Kohler, J. Earl McGregor, Jacob 
B. Tarr, Harry E. Gaylor, David B. Mullen, Edgar G. Cole, Clinton I. Fleegle, 
William E. Nelson, Daniel D. Carey, George A. Pennebecker, Homer W. Ivory, Henry 
E. Smeal, Alvin S. Wambaugh, William R. Olson, Leonard A. Fay, Arthur
H. 

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Tabb, Albert M. Bradley, Charles F. Sanders, Leo T. Herbert, Edgar A. Nowag, 
Orville B. Mann, Lewis A. Sieber, Lewis P. Fineberg, Orville S. Daugherty, 
Clarence F. Weible, Chalmers Hare, Frank B. Mallory, Michael Garfinkle, Philo F. 
Gunsallus, Michael Simms, Lewis B. Ensminger, Howard Ayer, John C. Behe, Peter 
Stanus, Philip G. Weible, John H. Hemphill, Fred J. Gabriel, William J. Snyder, 
William J. Storm, Cloyd G. Shue, Paul W. Wilbur, Clyde Manspeaker, Melvin T. 
Green, Frank J. Stanley, Maurice Levine, Carl M. Grove, William G. Manley, 
Howard E. Mengle, Thomas Eiber, Donald M. Yarnall, Arthur R. Mateer, John A. 
Sunderland, Tony Pinizzatto, Frank J. Baum, Gelbert H. Shearer, Thomas J. 
Singer, William B. Gibboney, Frank Manley, Jake Brooks, Samuel Kelm, Stewart E. 
Duff, Paul J. Fultz, Earnest B. Butler, John B. Speacht, Walter R. Hannah, 
Andrew F. Dillon, George W. Starnes, John W. Pitzer, James M. Loy, William J. 
Harney, Joseph C. Brown, Edward Snyder, Ralph C. Durborrow, Michael J. Donnelly, 
Harrison M. Long, Jesse C. Burns, Nevin J. Wagner, Leo E. Roy, James J. Skelly, 
Arthur Wilson, Charles Gindes, Paul J. Luckett, Harry W. Ickes, Ralph E. Guyer, 
Charles E. Maglaughlin, Frank X. Heberle, Demetrius A. McCulloch, Alex. 
Robinson, Burward Head, George G. Kalway, James W. Reeder, William M. Cashman, 
Frank McDonald, Charley Steward, James C. Hennen, George E. Webster, Alfred R. 
Russell, Glen W. Hess, Lee R. Stull, Leo A. Weamer, Foster C. Ross, Edward F. 
Gibson, James Tanneyhill, Hiram Young, Chester M. Gilliford, Thomas R. Kepple, 
Richard T. Wolf, John H. Plank, Jerome A. Warner, George A. Knighton, William M. 
Short, James B. Leonard, Walter Kinsel, George Raffool, Raymond G. Yon, Howard 
A. Clare, Vernon F. Morris, Lebron Hunter, John R. Brogan, Bernard D. Stehle, 
Earl F. Strohmeyer, Stephen S. Conlon, Wahl S. Ammerman, David V. Cassidy, 
George W. Tate, Joseph F. Miller, Roy E. VanOrmer, Gustave R. Helbrung, Charles 
S. Baker, Joseph R. Giarth, William Salmond, John T. Shade, John E. Reese, 
Howard W. Strunk, John M. McDonough, Peter Regas, Frank H. McGregor, Juiseppe 
Tarnaton, James C. Robertson, Albert E. Mitchell, David C. Rouser, Carl L. 
Fleck, William B. Davis, George Ajay, Joseph E. McLaughlin, John Belmont, Joseph 
Henderson, Benjamin Ware, Frank J. Lane, Harry Wolfberg, Ray E. Earnest, Charles 
D. Estep, Roy F. Lang, Harold B. Lockard, Louis Lenson, John W. Bullock, Dugold 
E. Wilson, Edgar D. Cawley, Charles H. Rife, Frank E. Lingenfelter, Thomas J. 
Tiernan, Joseph E. Shaffer, Guy W. Stoltz, Richard Farrell, James R. Pressel, 
Cecil A. Westley, Christ Petropoulis, Lafayette F. Burchhill, Alexander 
Kisielniki, Frank C. Warsing, Charles W. Frick, Thomas R. Piper, Henry Vreen, 
John J. Uhrich, Paul A. Luse, Paul C. Beighel, James Corrigan, Clair L. Calhoun, 
William M. Menton, Chester G. Smith, Paul E. Adams, Chester G. Lantz, John P. 
Smith, Howard R. Grabill, Patrick O. Conrad, Calvin R. Knisely, John H. Weller, 
Salem Shahabledin, Bernard L. Kelly, John L. Graffius, Justin R. O'Brien, Jacob 
Dewitt, William J. Russell, George W. Hall, Robert W. Pearson, John S. 
Whitehead, Leo E. Flick, Ross P. Sellers, Samuel B. Rickabaugh, James Wertz, 
Edward J. Hoover, James Brogan, Ralph E. Nagle, W. Carl Nugent, Alfonso Domeco, 
Howard M. 

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Brown, Harry D. Thompson, Frank C. Fisher, Paul A. Fleck, Anthony L. Condrin, 
Charles W. White, Fred Cam, William Wetter, Panagertis Hararas, Raymond D. 
Hoffheim, Peter Kapaloski, Charles Hoover, Gust T. Mostes, Charles V. Carter, 
Ralph I. Baum, John T. Byrne, Maurice M. Bagley, Andrew J. Reighter, Paul J. 
McGraw, Ralph G. Yeager, John G. Wehrley, Charles F. Brede, Victor P. Gearhart, 
William Phillips, Robert E. Wilt, Clarence E. Hershey, James R. Wilson, Fairleen 
F. Ferguson, John C. Irvine, Ralph T. Gibboney, Samuel J. Constance, Harold E. 
O'Neill, Samuel P. Taylor, William E. Bathurst, Russell M. Smiley, Austin F. 
Tiernan, Nathan H. Freedman, James W. Reese, Gus Hoffman, Luther J. M. Smith, 
Dee C. Brown, John Shopp, Bernard J. Plunkett, George L. Geesey, Henry McNeal, 
Arthur S. Snyder, Leo M. Warner, Henry J. Cherry, Stephen Matalay, Archie 
Slutzker, Harry A. Lang, John Otto, Curtis O'Shell, George Fonner, Ammon F. 
Parker, Francis M. Weisel, Hugh M. Butler, Bernard E. Carl, Harry L. Page, Carl 
E. Landstorm, Charles G. Ray, Edwin E. Arbuckle, Curtis E. Wagner, Henry C. 
Shoenfelt, Horace Frisby, Nunzio DiLeo, John E. Shaffer, Joseph Hess, Milton A. 
Ritchey, George A. Potter, Thomas A. Bald, James F. Baird, Allison L. Price, 
Willie Oliphant, Jr., Louis A. Carl, Walter E. Buehler, William R. McCormick, 
George H. Cole, William S. Marks, Morgan J. Doyle, David C. Vipond, Robert J. 
Ebling, Leonard J. Clark, Samuel Minich, Lowry P. Norris, Samuel Levels, John J. 
Cantz, John Halley, Nathan Wolfberg, Homer R. Boring, Dominico Parisi, Earl B. 
Wendell, Joseph E. Bender, John T. Mitchell, Jr., Harry C. Bookman, David 
Williams, Elvin Knee, Russell L. Forsyth, William E. Fasnacht, Otto A. Johnson, 
William R. Detwiler, Hugh E. West, William H. Murray, Samuel E. Heberly, George 
M. Kuhn, Chester R. Swigart, Wilbur R. Burke, Sylvester C. Fagan, Samuel L. 
Cherry, Paul A. Smith, George A. Garegeotes, Raphael J. Halligan, Delroy F. 
Donnelly, William B. Smith, Eugene Heinbaugh, Earl S. Grimm, John J. Goss, Ralph 
Burkholder, Paul K. Moran, Thomas A. Wertz, William J. Yeager, Russell Miller, 
Warren W. Adams, Barton D. Love, Herman J. Wilson, Louis S. Herr, Charles C. 
Lingenfelter, Jr., Albert A. Frees, Ralph S. Burke, Park F. Piper, Charles A. 
Fornwalt, Robert F. Hare, Joseph F. McGuire, Herbert T. Wolf, Clarence J. 
Leasure, Odis Sherne, Raymond E. Schmidt, Clarence E. Davis, Arthur D. Cashman, 
Charles E. Kuhn, Benjamin A. Hartz, Lewis P. Glover, Albert C. Weyandt, Thomas 
R. Canty, Romig McCurdy, John I. Gregg, Daniel C. Houseman, Max A. Wolfberg, 
Frank C. Hawkins, Thomas R. Dobson, Herbert J. Kleine, Roland C. Musser, Harold 
A. Davis, John A. McNelis, Joseph S. Eckenrode, Harold Sawtelle, Charles S. 
Downs, Fred W. Oeffinger, Charles R. Cassidy, Edward B. Felty, William K. 
Whitmore, David M. Broudy, Robert S. Ximmers, Andrew J. Schultz, Clark P. Lebo, 
Carl E. Foutz, Harry M. Shaeffer, Lloyd S. Ammerman, Isaac Saltzman, Roy L. 
Miller, Reon H. Washington, Chester R. Lingenfelter, William E. Barr, Edward F. 
Gehret, Claire Hoopes, George L. Saylor, William L. Wilson, Milton R. Morrow, 
John D. Clark, Harold C. Strobel, Cyril K. Nagel, Howard E. Way, Armour S. 
Benton, William K. Patterson, Harold F. Taylor, Harold G. McNeal, Roy C. 
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Paul B. Brunner, Isaac A. Karam, Robert A. Smith, Ralph W. Lind, Albert D. 
Goetz, Talmadge L. Ray, Paul T. Burns, Robert G. Metz, William S. Stoner, 
Raymond Crumbaker, Benjamin F. Anthony, James W. Morgan, Alexander Kanter, Homer 
M. Replogle, John G. Magree, Philip Wallis, William T. Alexander, John W. Allen, 
Thomas C. O'Neill, Donald E. Calbert, Wesley E. Smith, Leonard C. Moffitt, and 
Joseph M. Achterman.

Board, No. 2, for the city of Altoona had jurisdiction over the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 
8th and loth wards. From this section 702 men were inducted into the service in 
the period between the registration date of June 5, 1917, and the Armistice of 
November 11, 1918. They were sent to the same camps as were those from Board, 
No. 1. The names of the men who were inducted and entrained for the various 
camps follow: Charles Henry Luckenbaugh, Thomas Gerry Young, Edward Aloysius 
Brennan, Edward Andrew Furrer, Wolf Cohn, John Walter Wilson, Howard Carson 
Reighter, Charles Julius Voltz, John Albert Greiner, Anthony Minori, Ernest 
Moir, James Arthur Woganost, Howard William Good, Miles William Mock, Walter 
Blair Shade, Albert Schaffer Staerk, John Lee Parrish, Charles Elwood Weaver, 
Norbert Beck, Myer Abelson, George Carl Werner, Elmer Roy Shields, Charles 
Wilbur Burk, Thomas James McConnel, Edward Raphael Maier, Benjamin Clair 
Williams, Lewis Richard Minori, James Arthur Geissinger, Loyd Jacob Rupert, 
Charles Morgan, Vincent Maroney, Walter Weilt, George Karl Vogel, Francisco 
Cancella, George A. Confer, Roy C. Kaum, Paul Findley Lloyd, Vincenzo Pulcini, 
Joseph Miller, Harry Franklin Cramer, Joseph William Koenig, Edward Charles 
McGregar, Erman Guy Hostettler, George Warren Hare, Clarence Albert Crist, 
George Otto Blase, William Lloyd Merrits, Floyd Earl Benton, Michael Dibassi, 
John Spirdigiozzi, Paul Alonzo Epright, Oscar Reed, Earl Byron Miller, Frank A. 
Wertz, Lee Roy Lockard, Alden Emerick Coffman, Herbert Sidney Mitchell, Rex 
Beatty Wilson, William Raymond Lightfoot, Joseph Snyder, David Lampe Fleck, 
Frederick Joseph Hanlon, William John Thompson, Arthur Ward Mattern, Lisle Leon 
Ferguson, Lawrence William Dibert, Clarence Ellsworth Buchanan, Harry Frank 
Kimmel, Herman Hees, Charles Edgar Shultzaberger, Aaron J. Fleck, George 
Washington Sipes, Harry Morley Booth, Joseph William Bradley, James Henry Hay, 
Robert Alexander Hay, Harry Fiore, John Hirst Houck, Lawrence R. Dowing, Raymond 
Earl Dencler, Cyril Joseph Conrod, George Frederick Stover, Ralph Harrison 
Stiffler, Scott Eugene Wagner, Paul Raymond Reynolds, Thomas Marsden Lee, 
Charles Samuel Berney, Michele Faretta, Foster Ross Albright, James Bell Bruner, 
Foster William Duffield, Walter Bartley Irwin, Charles Edgar Paul, Charles 
William Gassenhuber, Joseph Ray Harkness, John Dalbert Fitzgerald, William John 
McGarvey, Harry Joseph McCormick, Frank Beck, John Anthony Gibbons, Luther Davis 
Harris, James Henry Crook, Raymond J. Seidel, Charles John Maier, Alvin John 
Isenberg, Antonio Danella, James Mirante, Herbert William Kelly, Matthew Albert 
Detterbeck, Frank Xavier Izzo, Raffaele Preziosa, Elmer Gilbert Williams, Edward 
Matthew O'Donnel, James Grimovald Fusco, George D. Showers, Edward James 
Gassenhuber, Paul Wilson,

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Willoughby Bitner Brandt, Joseph Lee Smith, Clair Bowser Miller, Edgar Jacob 
Rickenbaugh, John Gay, Paul Clinton Rupe, Leo A. Schmidhammer, Isaac Mallet 
Lafferty, Heber Law Wilfong, Harry Lewis McMinn, Harry Clair Killian, Charles 
Sidler, Frank Michael Amrhein, Thomas Reed Hay, Thomas Patrick Meehan, John 
Beale Kirk, James Kiser, Edgar George Wiesinger, Roy E. Houseman, Amos Martin 
Westover, Charles Sietenspinner, Thomas Samuel Baumgardner, John P. Chase, Edwin 
Harold James, Paul Wilson Reed, William M. Parmer, William A. Sherry, Myreen 
Henry Neaffer, Jr., Guy Blair Mills, George Edward Musselman, Harry Allen Moore, 
George Edwin Fleck, Edward Hutchinson Cornelius, Chester Goshan, Alvin Ray 
Arnold, Henry H. Zimmerman, Earl Emanuel Miller, Walter Thompson, Thomas Wilson 
Beattie, Pasquale Pirro, Angelo Manno, Charles B. Werner, Carl Anton Keller, 
Calvin Joseph Siard, William Leonard Reismeier, Charles E. Carner, Oliver 
Goldsmith Langer, Frank B. Gerhardt, George Sellers Rollins, John M. Schlegel, 
Harry L. Shapley, John Russell Yohn, Charles Edward Wolford, Elwood Rabold Buck, 
Andrew Santella, Rudolph Henry Farbaugh, Jr., John William Siegrist, Thomas 
Clair Benton, Charles Fred Rock, Luigi Mattioli, Herbert Lewis Witts, Leonardo 
G. Mascia, Percy E. Probst, Clyde Miller Harper, Frank George Karls, Lawrence 
Fagan Myers, Andrew Rudolph Greiner, Eugene Clarkson Wagner, Carl C. Elber, 
David Walter, Thomas Nido, Harry Edward Galbraith, Ugo Lavarini, Edward Leroy 
Weaver, Thomas Paul Dunn, Herbert Raymond Kettl, Julius Louis Enzbrenner, G. B. 
Castrechini, Luigi Perticcari, Edward Joseph Meindel, Luigi Caffaso, Gottlieb 
Harliman, Robert James McCormick, Eugene Percival Speacht, Harry Elijah Reese, 
James Harris McCracken, William Joseph Cochrane, I. Remaley, Eugene E. Weaver, 
William Latta, John R. Hurd, Michael Roberto, Clair Vincent Inlow, Philip 
Francis Rogers, Pietro Roscia, Adam Philip Muri, Gennaro Vadacchino, William 
Chalmer McMullin, John Edward Vogt, George Wendelin Brodbeck, Frank Masterson, 
Ira David McCartney, Harry Thomas Morgan, Frank J. A. Gamber, John Stillman 
Clark, Frank Zierer, Jesse L. Bosserman, Andrew Amrhein, Robert Lee Schraf, 
Michael F. Steinheiser, Charles Alexander Stewart, Engelbert M. Cassatta, Fred 
John Lehle, David Elmer Fickes, Harry D. Chichester, Samuel Ralph Stephens, 
Joseph Abraham Wagner, Silvis Temofonte, John P. Schultz, Joseph F. Seidel, 
Harrison John Donnelson, Joseph M. Seigrist, Zopiro Casole, George Edward 
Raichle, Frank Oellig, George G. Russell, Edward Augustine Smeltzer, William 
Wray Shugarts, Fred Apple, Michael Herbert Stine, Philip Manelli, Joseph Francis 
Filtz, John M. Keller, Frank Vandevendor Barrick, John Herbert Drass, Lewis 
Frederick Stonebraker, Lawrence Ward Glenn, George T. Berrang, George Edward 
Shock, Charles Walter Potter, John Frank Einodshofer, Chester G. McGlathery, 
Clarence R. Keith, Alessandro Catalogno, Norman Howard Mazurie, Calvin J. 
Johnston, George A. Dorman, Joseph E. Heintel, Richard K. Vaughn, Charles H. 
Pentz, Fred Canan Wray, Paul C. Akers, Walter Christ Schmelzlen, Carl Elton 
Reed, Joseph Lee Wentzel, Charles Francis Hoffman, Edgar G. Kimmel, Glenn M. 
Musser, John William Rolun, Francis Joseph Bradley, James Henry Jones,

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George Edgar Stiver, Arnold Sylvester Coppersmith, Antonio Liberatore, Ferdinand 
J. Dreisbach, Lewis Achatz, Elmer Lewis Reinhold, Frank Saad Assay, Frank Ralph 
Williams, Chester Charles Heiner, Louis Cappucci, Samuel O. Reed, Luigi 
Battisti, Barardino Biasone, Carlo Rocci, Roy Albert Raichle, Joseph Levine, 
Edward John Killian, John Joseph Langguth, George Joseph Seidel, Chester F. 
Meck, Oliver Rothrock Stitt, Harry Harshbarger, William Joseph Pfeffer, John 
Christian Haller, Miles Elton Dean, Oscar Valentine Gamber, John Irvin Morrison, 
Joseph Leo Boyle, Frederick Leopold Kreitner, Charles Blair Yon, Stephen Earl 
Rupe, Jacob Ripley Ameigh, John Adam Miller, Thomas Patrick Corless, Michael 
Amrhein, Joseph E. Smith, Albert W. Beattie, Jr., William L. Osche, Charles T. 
McGarvey, Anthony R. Frischkorn, Paul Peter Karl, Henry Rohrl, George Chester 
Hart, Luigi Antonio Biancho, John Griffith Connor, John Alvin Wolf, John Orr, 
Ray J. Kerlin, Harry Payne Gillespie, Herbert Gray Burd, Albert Paul Dively, 
Harry Edgar Moore, Howard Lawrence Christ, James Melvin Hughes, Joseph Belford 
Chatham, Luigi Galassi, Recco Luciano, Francesco Pizzino, Victor F. Nichols, 
James Roy Fry, Earl George Rhodes, John Earl Young, Grant Edward Kelly, Marion 
C. Lukens, Charles E. Kensinger, Charles Raymond Hutchinson, Carl Oldenwalter, 
Gregario Robertazzi, Reynolds Bessinger, James Richard Rankey, Joseph Conrad 
Beck, Charles Jacob Furrer, Ira Daniel Parsons, Angelo Colliste, Michele Petta, 
Raymond Robert Reese, George Parmer, David M. Conrad, James W. Bragonier, 
Francis S. Hoyer, Lester C. Glenn, William Kauffman Heiler, Stewart H. Barwiss, 
William J. Brady, Edward H. Foster, Raymond A. Costlow, Emory Owen Parks, 
Stanley Irwin Dean, Harry Edward Slep, Dallas Lee Miller, Michael Joseph 
Houraney, Earl Myers Curry, Blaine McKelvey, Harvey Ross Walter, Clarence Trust 
Appleman, Ferdinand A. Hasentab, Charles Roesch, Abraham Walker Bookhamer, 
William Ignatius Morgan, Homer Joe Bearr, William Leonard Watts, Urban Eugene 
Dumm, Gilbert Harry Lehman, Carl Fred Landeck, Samuel Edmiston, Rosario Romeo, 
Jacob Cecil Cohn, James Clyde Palmer, Edgar Cloke Barnard, Charles William 
Siegrist, Daniel Kime Fry, Vincent Andrew Guagliardo, Chalmer Decloy, John 
Luther Dively, Salvatore Pincheri, Dave Henry Taylor, Joseph Collarusso, Clyde 
Monroe Blair, Henry B. Spencer, Edward Herman Heller, Fred Raymond Guyer, George 
A. S. Haigh, Frank Joseph Greiner, George Henderson Barry, Joseph C. Crawford, 
William Frederick Hirt, James Daniel Fenelli, Clyde Gerald Levan, Jesse Hartman 
Baker, Raphael Lee Seidel, Russell Claude Boose, Frank Joseph Bauman, Joseph 
William Malley, James Paul Finnegan, Miles M. Condrin, John Raymond Kay, John H. 
Stehle, Cletus George Maloney, William John Farrell, Alvin Earl Murphy, Charles 
Maximillian Grathwohl, Henry Baker Reed, Joseph I. Paxson, William Freeborn 
Baker, Guiseppe Battisti, William Edgar Troutman, Domenick A. D'Agostino, 
Wilfred C. Selwitz, Michael Thomas Gibbons, Hays McKelvery, Henry Lawrence 
Leasure, Carl Joseph Ensbrenner, John Carl Forney, Earnest DeBernardis, Carl 
Frederick Houser, Fred Arnsperger, Earnest G. Fornbacher, George Harry Sterns, 
Matthew Haller, Franklin Pierce Roelofs, Elmer Kenneth Miller, David Vincent 
Mardon,

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Munzie Santi DiBlasi, Adam Sigrist, Frederick Clarkson Robb, Harrison Merton 
Malone, Edward Joseph Muri, Oscar C. Schmidhammar, William Miller, Chester 
Frederick Troutman, Francesco Romagnoli, Winfield Scott Peters, Edgar Barr, Givo 
B. Carnicella, Allen Edward Kay, Henry Leroy Stover, Bernardino Ferdinandi, 
George Frederick Schuler, Fedela Carso, Jacob M. Khoury, Joseph Bassel Dennely, 
Glen Robert Orr, Frank Gressler, William Clarence McKinney, William Oscar 
Hammond, Walter Freemont Lenhaer, Santo Gualano, Frank Paul Schreiner, George 
William Motley, Joseph Haster Condrin, Antonio Soriano, Allen John Patterson, 
Carl George Meyer, Guido Saderio, Ralph Earl Crozier, Martin Wetherill Trout, 
Edgar Thomas Miller, Edmund Strayer, Thomas Spencer Fess, Joseph Crissman 
Espenlaub, Louis Anthony Schmerbeck, Edward Johnson, Columbus Christopher, 
Russell Edward Whitehead, James William Green, Paul Charles Stalter, Charles H. 
Ackerman, James Croft, Charles Miller Way, William Martin Roberts, Charles 
Newton McCarl, William Cullen Bailey, Frank Louis Koelle, Harry John Kanan, 
Louis Neugebauer, Harvey Musselman, Ralph Edwin Megehan, Edgar Alvin Weyandt, 
David Ira Dibert, Christ George Hauser, Oliver Earl Forsht, Edgar Charles 
Weaver, Chester Benjamin Harrison, Charles Sullivan Burns, Francis Eugene Burns, 
Samuel J. G. Edgar, John Westley Hetrick, Clyde Edwin Stover, Andrew William 
Banks, Ralph Henchey Norton, Charles Ernest Becker, George Nickola, Jr., 
Lawrence Anthony Kimmel, Oresta Guiseppe, John A. M. Hoar, Joseph Riccio, 
William Eisel, Jr., Earl Christian Housner, John Winning, Arthur Davis 
Reifsnyder, Harry Henry Clare, George Edgar Platt, Robert John Noonan, Thomas 
Eugene Noonan, Joseph Hershey Miller, Jr., William Paul Wolf, William Edward 
Kelly, James Paul Shugarts, Arthur A. Wendt, Raymond C. J. Schmidhammer, John 
Fanale, Cicone Santo, Walter Henry Koelle, Owen Clyde Nearhoof, Mark Kerr 
Mackey, Bernard Henry Burke, Alfred Charles Gorn, James William Cummings, Seward 
Earl Biddle, Thomas Russel Brown, Rudolph Eugene Mack, George William 
Neugebauer, Harry Sherman Pine, Jr., Edward Philip Metzgar, Emil C. H. 
Fimfschilling, Robert Wigton Bailey, Walter Aloysius Hoyer, Edgar James 
Stackhouse, Charles Ralph L. Clemmens, John Edgar McCommons, George Blaine 
Baird, Silas Joseph Burk, Joseph Allnisher Long, Joseph Bernard Kellar, Edgar 
Monroe Wharton, Melvin Robert Smith, Paul Augustine Foster, Charles Crist 
Brenner, Azar Abraham, Bennedette Ardire, William Andrew Landeck, Edward William 
Nash, Anthony Smucinski, James Stultz Bell, Frederick R. Myers, Wade Rittner 
McKiernan, Harvey Orr Wilson, David Crawford Irwin, Harry Elwood Rohrback, Roy 
Charles Stehman, Fred Frank Gehl, William Robert Booth, George Lester Robison, 
Joseph Charles Schwartz, Francis Leroy Wilt, Arthur Samuel Sprankle, Paul David 
Heess, Paul Hunter Corrigan, John Robert Pennington, Francesco Ruscio, Thomas 
Kenneth Watson, Park Grant Bollinger, Francis Edward Gouty, Charles J. Sherer, 
Earl Clifford Wilt, Albert Porta, Milton D. Papadeas, Harry J. Lafferty, John J. 
Kabella, Jr., Elmer F. Rishe, Bernard A. Finnegan, John A. Colliflower, Blair 
Dean Harris, Thomas W. Young, Charles W. Miller, Albert C. Greenwich, Percy J. 
Williams, Donato Mollica, George J.

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Epple, Arthur J. Creiger, Archibald McFarland Griffin, Joseph N. Gamble, Joseph 
Edgar Willoughby, Edwin Joseph Parrish, Herbert Bertram Burkhart, Charles James 
White, Ralph Leroy Stiffler, Francis E. Rutter, Charles E. A. Jefferies, Bruce 
Carrot McKague, William H. Roelofs, Charles E. Fleming, Robert A. Leman, Carl 
George Wickum, George R. Beckel, Richard D. Kennedy, John Robert Moore, Morris 
Edward Lowder, Lawrence W. Boorland, Albert Dick Heacox, Howard Calvin Thompson, 
James Meshon, Roy Logan Biddle, Herman Burns Crichfield, John Albert Butts, John 
D. McCaleb, Harold Bruce Hahn, Frank Sylvester Clark, Herman Fred Myer, Arthur 
Williams, Enrice Cicceni, Paul Vincent Snyder, Dennis C. Flynn, Marks Henry 
Miller, Austin Earley Crownever, Joseph Nason Maddocks, Paul Milton Hayward, 
Fred Arnold Brupbacher, Edward Bruce Fields, Paul Anthony Gleichert, Harry 
Robinson Gamble, Roscoe G. Fagan, Joseph John Burgeon, Donald Joseph Hickey, Roy 
Benton Stover, Charles Edward Fawber, Thomas Harnish Buchanan, George Joseph 
Wyrough, Donald B. Miller, John E. Snyder, Clair Edward Murphy, Philip Nicholas 
Sanders, Donald Cornelius Norton, William Corle Smith, Joseph M. Hazey, Edgar 
Lawrence Little, John Albert Hess, William James Lilly, Edward Ellsworth 
Rutherford, Doyle Lewis Mierley, Dewey McKinley Laufer, Alfred Judson Dolloway, 
Linden Elwood Orner, James Gerald Howell, Paul Bruner Hoffman, Walter G. Roth, 
Charles Frederick Just, Patrick J. Healy, Daniel A. O'Donnell, Norman Joseph 
Eckenrode, Regis J. Conrad, Francis J. McGarvey, Charles Edgar Shope, Alfred J. 
Coates, Charles Reuben Whitehead, and Orville Daniel McCartney.

                                OTHER ACTIVITIES

In May, 1917, the Altoona Chamber of Commerce launched a program to boost 
agricultural production. Their motto, "Put the Plow Behind the Flag," quickly 
caught the imagination of the populace. Community gardening was encouraged and 
many vacant lots in the city soon became thriving, miniature, truck farms. The 
public schools assisted in this work by granting credits to boys who engaged in 
farm work. Some of the public-spirited citizens, business and social 
organizations donated unused land for gardening. The Tyrone Brick and Tile 
Company granted the use of 125 acres of land to the citizens. Near Altoona, 
Thomas H. Greevy donated about 100 acres of ground for war gardens, and the 
Hebrew Reformed Congregation turned over five additional ones. Everywhere people 
were unselfishly putting forth their efforts to bring about effective campaigns. 
The presence of Marshal Joffre and members of the French Commission in this 
country inspired confidence. On the morning of May 9th, this group passed 
through Altoona. The Juniata Y. M. C. A. under the leadership of William Stahl, 
local secretary, held a reception for the soldiers from Camp Cresswell. Plans 
were made to extend the association's services to the camp. The First Liberty 
Loan Campaign in the county met with decided success. Altoona citizens 
subscribed $999,600, while Blair County subscribed $1,554,450.

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Jacob Gemmill Davis, prominent banker, guided the various Liberty Loan Campaigns 
here throughout the war. Samuel S. Metz, another local banker, was also very 
active in these campaigns. Robert C. Wilson, cashier of the First National Bank 
of Altoona, served as chairman of the United War Work Campaign.

Membership in the Red Cross increased rapidly during the county campaign which 
was launched in the autumn of 1917. Originally there were 4,696 members, and by 
December 13,849 additional ones contributed to that organization. Others joined 
the Red Cross later. On September 30, 1917, Theodore Roosevelt, the former 
president, addressed a large audience at a Red Cross Rally held at Johnstown. 
More than 2,500 citizens of Blair County were in attendance, and Judge Thomas 
Baldrige also delivered an address. The splendid results of the membership 
campaign that followed, received an impetus at this meeting. C. T. Derick, of 
Bellwood, Mrs. Nason, of Roaring Spring, Mrs. W. W. Woods, of Williamsburg, E. 
F. Giles, Dr. J. D. Findley, Rev. F. Dean Miller, Harry Davis, W. C. Snyder, and 
Mrs. Mae Wilson, of Altoona, were active Red Cross workers. A chapter was 
organized at Hollidaysburg on October 3, 1917. The officers elected then were: 
J. King McLanahan, Jr., chairman; Miss Lysle Smith, vice-chairman; Mrs. Julian 
Millard, secretary; Miss Edith Baldrige, treasurer; Thomas H. Suckling, chairman 
of the administration committee; Frank J. Over, Sr., chairman of the military 
committee; John N. Drass, chairman of the civilian relief committee. The Grace 
Methodist Church in Altoona formed an auxiliary of the Blair County Red Cross on 
September 30, 1917. Mrs. L. B. Stroble was chairman; Mrs. Nellie Walters, 
assistant chairman: Mrs. Ira Miller, secretary, and Mrs. A. J. Bradley, 
treasurer. Other branches of the Red Cross were organized throughout the county. 
Much of its work will probably never receive mention. In addition to preparing 
hospital supplies and knitting garments, money was collected for the relief of 
Belgian and French sufferers, and families of local men who were in the service 
of the United States were looked after and their difficulties straightened out. 
Their activities did not cease with the cessation of hostilities. The men had to 
come home, secure positions, and meet the very difficult problems of adjusting 
themselves to the ways of peace. Mrs. J. E. McAleer, head of the canteen 
department of the Red Cross in this county, reported that 1,000 men had been fed 
in the headquarters at Altoona during February, 1919. John N. Drass, of the 
civilian relief committee, found it necessary to place three civilian relief 
workers in each city ward after March 4, 1919. Pupils of the Sacred Heart School 
made 100 small coats, and a similar number of small waists for needy war orphans 
in February, 1919. Mrs. Jessie E. Findley, supervisor of refugee work and 
hospital garments, reported that 1,449 articles for hospital use had been 
prepared in that month. To list the names of all the workers in this great 
movement would be an impossible task for this volume. Suffice it to say that 
they were legion, and from their hearts and purses flowed the love and the 
wealth of a great people.

The children of Blair County took part in the events that aided in bringing a 
successful termination to the great conflict. William O'Brien, William West-

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fall and Howard L. Fetters, Altoona boys, made too trench candles which they 
gave to the Emergency Aid on December 8, 1917. Other lads between the ages of 16 
and 21 joined the Boys' Working Reserve of Blair County for the purpose of 
contributing their services in industrial and commercial work of a non-military 
nature. O. B. Furrer, of Altoona, was the director.

With the approach of Christmas, 1917, some of the service men were in France, 
while many others were scattered in camps throughout this country. One local 
organization sent 70 boxes of chocolate almond bars to the men of Company G, 
110th Pennsylvania Infantry at Camp Hancock, Georgia. The employees of the 
Schwarzenbach-Huber Silk Company made cash contributions for gifts for the 
soldiers in camps. These are only examples of the efforts made to brighten the 
lives of the men in the service. The Y. M. C. A. became the headquarters to 
which such contributions as books, magazines, and victrola records for the use 
of the soldiers en route to camp, could be brought.

In the third week of February, 1919, Welcome Home Headquarters were established 
in Altoona. Within the two weeks that ensued 400 personal letters were written, 
200 personal interviews were held, and 14 men were given assistance. Others were 
directed to various organizations of the city. The secretaries called at 165 
homes, and the War Mothers' Association presented potted plants, ferns and 
curtains to make the rooms at the headquarters attractive.

While Sergeant William F. Crawford of the 17th United States Cavalry was in 
France he wrote to his father, William F. Crawford, Sr., of South Altoona, 
concerning a memorable experience. His letter appeared in an issue of the 
Altoona Tribune. It follows in part: "* * * * * Am going to swank a little now: 
President Poincare, General Petain and General Pershing and Staff, with the 
minister of war, inspected our quarters. I had the honor to escort them through 
the quarters, being asked to do so by General Pershing, and I'll venture that 
President Poincare never saw an American soldier any straighter than I.* * * *

Oramel Harter, son of Rev. and Mrs. E. E. Harter, of Hollidaysburg, served in 
the Canadian Navy during the war. He was stationed on the warship "Niobe" in the 
harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia, when the munitions ship "Mont Blanc" blew up. 
Mr. Harter reported that his vessel was within 500 yards of the "Mont Blanc," 
and that, although he was temporarily deafened, he suffered only minor injuries. 
These are only two of many experiences of Blair County soldiers.

Honorable Henry W. Shoemaker, United States Minister to Bulgaria, was identified 
with many of the greatest national organizations for the successful propagation 
of the war. He was a member of the State Council of National Defence, and of the 
Pennsylvania Reserve Militia. The Pennsylvania National Guard sent him to Europe 
as its special representative, and the federal government placed him in the 
Military Intelligence Division of the General Staff at Washington. He 
contributed to the success of financial and journalistic campaigns of all types 
in Blair County. With Mr. Reuben Long and others, he was responsible for the 
erection of a flag staff and the floating of the American flag

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on Mr. Long's farm near Blue Knob. Near this point the highest peak in 
Pennsylvania is said to be located.

Nearly thirteen years have passed since that great day in November, 1918, when a 
warring world found itself facing a new era. President Hoover has just presented 
his debt moratorium that is said by some to be the greatest achievement since 
the Armistice. The world suffered much in the holocaust. The names of Blair 
County's soldier dead are engravened in tablets of bronze, and in the hearts of 
our citizens. The poet Brooke wrote of foreign soil that is forever England." 
May that French soil that is forever America, be a constant reminder of the 
awfulness of war, and an inspiration to Blair County citizens to continue in the 
arts of peace, and maintain in the future as they have in the past, their high 
standards of service for the good causes of society.