8471b
Print, Photographic
1918
World War I Enlistees by Courthouse. 9 3/4" x 6" black and white photograph of a large group of men, 76, posed outside the Waseca County Courthouse (This building is on the National Register of Historic Sites.) before leaving for military service in World War I; written in white lettering on front, "Left Feb. 25, 1918 Waseca, Minn."; photographed by George Kopman, Waseca, Minn. Men unidentified, names in random order: Lemick Arthur Larson, Edward John Herman Jeddeloh, Milton Harold Mahler, Frank Dunnett, Frank Thomas Knish, Edson Shatto, Sylvester Benedict Conway, William L .Gehring, Arthur Lewis Kotz, Christ F. Priem, Edward Hillert, Robert J. Fitzgerald, John Scholer, John Christopher Harguth, Thomas Michael Morrissey, Joseph Alland, Otto Leuth, Oliver Melvin Keene, Edward J. Geil, Earl W. Grant, Stanislavos Czuplinskas, Leslie Thomas Quinn, William Kelm, William Franklin Dawald, Roland Reuben Sutter, William Henry Gehring, William Henry Ketchum, Leo Johnson, Frank Brady, Jr., Edward August Wobschall, Otto Gustav Masourick, August F. Kreinke, Leo Wilfred Willette, John Martin Howald, Ray J. Lindell, Glen D. Swenson, Arnold Hans Kroeger, Henry Mellem, Arthur Charles Whelan, Edward Francis Bower, Mike F. Kaiser, Sebastian Leonard Kahnke, Joseph Sullivan, Nick Huber, Emil Frederick Pawek, Walter B. Kaiser, Robert Francis Dardis, Martin N. Berg, Clifford Carroll Hutchings, Simon John White, Leslie G. James, Bennie Leven Swenson, Herbert Spies, George Vincent Davis, Harold Thomas McCall, Herman Arthur Sewald, Ed Rothke, Carl A. Knutson, Harold Leon Shepherd, Raymond Con Sweet, William Edward Grosskreitz, Hans Edward Jorgenson, Earl Archie Mycue, Arne Newberg, Arthur Spalding or Spaulding Hall, Clyde F. Case, John Ralph Bullard, Clarence Arthur Hanson, Louis Christensen, Andrew Breck, Ward Fogarty, Christian John Borgen, Solomon L. Thomson, Bennie Ole Hovde, Dennis F. Glynn, Lorain Elmer Leighton, Edward Scholer.
Waseca County will send its second quota of fighting men to camp on Feb. 25. Seventy-six rugged, clear-eyed young men representing all parts of Waseca County will leave this city over the M & StL railroad for Camp Dodge, Iowa where they will begin training to do their share in making the world safe for democracy. Waseca business: Kopman Photography.